Dahjin Kim

Dahjin Kim is assistant professor of Asian studies and global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs and has been a Kellogg faculty fellow since 2025. Her research interests include comparative politics, political communication, persuasion and belief updating, misinformation and public opinion, with a focus on East Asia and South Korea in particular.

Kim’s research examines political communication in online environments, with a focus on misinformation and its correction within online communities. Her work also explores elite communication behaviors and public opinion on social media. Methodologically, she employs a multi-method approach, integrating computational text analysis, survey experiments, design-based causal inference, and qualitative fieldwork. 

Her scholarship 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.

Kim holds a PhD in political science from Washington University in St. Louis.