2024-25 Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
​Princeton University, The Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance

​I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University's Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance for 2024-25. I have recently defended my doctoral dissertation at the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, titled "Empowering Developing Countries: Combating Misinformation and Correcting (Mis)perceptions of Foreign Aid." I completed two degrees from Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea): a bachelor's in economics and international studies in Underwood International College and a master's concentrating on international development cooperation and international trade and economic development in the Graduate School of International Studies.

My broad research interests include international development, poverty, political economy of foreign aid, political violence, sub-Saharan Africa, experimental methods, mixed-methods, (mis)perceptions, and (mis)information.

My dissertation applies a mixed-methods approach, including survey experiments, field experiments, and qualitative in-depth interviews. The project explores how perceptions regarding aid are created and how (mis)perceptions of foreign aid influenced by (mis)information could be corrected or worsened in developing countries. This project received support from various competitive research grants, including the APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant funded by the National Science Foundation, Texas Politics Research Grant, Clements Center for National Security's Grants in History, Strategy, and Statecraft, and the Carl J. Tamara M. Tricoli Endowed Fellowship. 

I was also team lead at the Innovations for Peace and Development (IPD) (2022-24) and a Graduate Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security (2020-24). And my work has been published in PNAS Nexus. 
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What you do makes a difference. And you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
— Jane Goodall

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