Eun A Jo

I am an Assistant Professor of Government at William and Mary and a fellow at Good Authority. Previously, I was a David and Cindy Edelson Fellow in International Security at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College and a Predoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University. I received my PhD in Government from Cornell University in 2024. 

I study the democratic origins of national memory and their implications for international relations in/of East Asia. Working across the disciplinary divides, my research explores how we—as a national unit—negotiate how we remember our difficult pasts and why that changes. My research has been published or is forthcoming in Asian Survey, Comparative Political Studies, and International Organization. I have received, among others, the Nuno P. Monteiro Best Dissertation Award, Catherine McArdle Kelleher Best Article Award and the Alexander L. George Best Article Award from the American Political Science Association.

Occasionally, I write commentaries on contemporary policy issues. My writings have appeared in outlets such as Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, and The Diplomat, as well as in think tank publications, including by the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Rand Corporation. 

You can also find me on Google Scholar and ResearchGate. Please reach me at ejo [at] wm.edu.