Dahjin Kim
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Global Affairs
- Office
- 2144 Jenkins Nanovic Halls Notre Dame, IN 46556
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- (574) 631-9866
- dkim234@nd.edu
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Expertise
Comparative politics; political communication; persuasion and belief updating; misinformation; public opinion; East Asia; South Korea
Biography & Research
Dahjin Kim is an assistant professor of Asian studies and global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and a core-affiliated faculty member of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.
She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.A. and B.A. in political science from Seoul National University.
Kim’s research examines political communication in online environments, with a particular focus on misinformation and its correction within online communities. Her dissertation investigates how leveraging online group identities can enhance the effectiveness of misinformation corrections among community members. More broadly, her work explores elite communication behaviors and public opinion on social media.
Methodologically, Kim employs a multi-method approach, integrating computational text analysis, survey experiments, design-based causal inference, and qualitative fieldwork. Her research has been supported by the American Political Science Association’s Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant and has been published in International Organization, the American Journal of Political Science, Political Science Research and Methods, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
Recent Work
News & Media
- Democracy, memes and fake news: scholar studies how people talk politics online in East Asia and beyond
- Ten new faculty join Keough School of Global Affairs