Donghyun Danny Choi

Donghyun Danny Choi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University. His research and teaching focus on political parties, identity politics, immigration, and African politics.

His first (co-authored) book, Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants, is being published by Princeton University Press in the Princeton Studies in Political Behavior series, and will be available for purchase on October 11, 2022.

He is currently completing his second book, Severed Connections: Intraparty Politics and Representation in Kenya, which won APSA’s Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy presented by the Democracy and Autocracy Section of the American Political Science Association in 2020.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. Prior to joining Brown, he was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh and a pre/postdoctoral fellow at the Identity & Conflict Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.