Danielle F. Jung

Title
Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University
Bio/Description

Danielle Jung is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Emory University. She completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego in 2012 and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School during the academic year 2012-2013. Her dissertation uses an agent-based model to study how social organizations promote cooperation and enhance welfare, specifically within rebel groups, amongst states, and voters. Her research interests include: rebel group organizational structure, the dynamics of political mobilization in emerging democracies, and the co-evolution of populations and social organizations. She has conducted surveys and field experiments in Ghana and Uganda. Jung has published in the American Journal of Political Science and Terrorism and Political Violence. She has a BA in Political Science and Policy Studies from Rice University.