Eunji Kim

Assistant Professor

I study American public opinion, political communication and political psychology, with a focus on perceptions of economic mobility and income inequality. My book project (tentatively titled The American Mirage: How the Media Upholds Meritocracy in an Age of Inequality), which won APSA’s Best Dissertation in Political Psychology in 2020, explains why many Americans believe in the prospect of upward economic mobility despite growing wealth disparities. I argue that Americans’ non-political media diets play an important role in explaining this puzzle.

My work has been published or forthcoming in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, International Organization, Research & Politics, and Quarterly Journal of Political Science.

I am a Carter Family Dean's Faculty Fellow (2020-2022) as well as Center for Strategic and International Studies’ NextGen Scholar (2020-2021). I am the recipient of the APSA’s 2020 Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award, Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award, ISPP's 2020 Roberta Sigel Early Career Scholar Paper Award, and the ICA’s 2018 Top Paper in Political Communication Award.

I received a Joint Ph.D. in Political Science and Communication from University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Statistics from the Wharton School, and a B.A. in Government from Harvard University.