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김서영 조교수 Kim, Seo Young (Assistant Professor)

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Curriculum Vitae

FIELDS OF STUDY

  1. Political Theory & Meothodology 이론, 방법론

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  1. American Politics 미국정치

  2. Political Methodology 정치학 방법론

  3. Computational Social Sciences 계산사회과학

  4. Political Behavior 정치행태

  5. Elections 선거

  6. Election Administration 선거관리

  7. Money in Politics 정치자금

김서영 교수는 서울대학교 정치외교학부 조교수로 재직 중이다. 연구 분야는 미국 정치, 정치학 방법론, 계산사회과학이며, 특히 행정 데이터와 설문조사 데이터에서의 측정 편향, 그리고 미국의 선거 및 선거 관리, 정치 후원금, 양극화 등의 주제를 연구한다. 연구 성과는 American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Political Behavior 등의 저널에 게재되었다.

서울대학교 부임 전에는 서강대학교에서 2023-2024년 동안 근무했으며, 그 이전에는 미국 워싱턴 D.C.의 아메리칸 대학교(American University)에서 2020-2023년 동안 조교수로 재직했다. 서울대학교에서 경제학 및 사회학 학사 학위를 받았으며, 캘리포니아 공과대학교(California Institute of Technology)에서 사회과학 박사 학위를 받았다.


Seo-young Silvia Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University. Her research interests include American politics, political methodology, and computational social science, with a particular focus on political behavior, election administration, and money in politics. She also develops methods to identify and correct measurement biases in administrative data and surveys.

Prior to joining SNU, Kim was an assistant professor at Sogang University from 2023-2024, and before that, at American University in Washington, DC, from 2020-2023. She received her B.A. in economics and sociology from Seoul National University and a Ph.D. in social sciences from the California Institute of Technology.

 

학술 연구 및 기타
 

    [1] Kim, Seo-young Silvia. 2025. “Fundraising on the Fringe: Do Ideologically Extreme Candidates Solicit Small Donations?” Research & Politics. Forthcoming.

    [2] Atsusaka, Yuki, and Seo-young Silvia Kim. 2025. “Addressing Measurement Errors in Ranking Questions for the Social Sciences.” Political Analysis. 1-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2024.33 

    [3] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, and Zhao Li. 2025. “Keep Winning with WinRed? Digital Fundraising Platform as the Party’s Public Good.” The Journal of Politics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/735435

    [4] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, Akhil Bandreddi, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2024. “Partisanship is why people vote in person in a pandemic.” Social Science Quarterly. 105(4): 1042-60. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13380

    [5] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, Jan Zilinsky, and Brian Brew. 2024. “Donate to Help Us Fight Back: Political Fundraising and Toxic Rhetoric Online.” Party Politics: 13540688241235901. DOI: 10.1177/13540688241235901.

    [6] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, and Jan Zilinsky. 2024. “Division Does Not Imply Predictability: Demographics Continue to Reveal Little About Voting and Partisanship.” Political Behavior. 46(1):67- 87. DOI: 10.1007/s11109-022-09816-z.

— Podcast interview at the Niskanen Center ’s The Science of Politics, May 19, 2021, “Is Demographic and Geographic Polarization Overstated?”

— Previously circulated as “The Divided (But Not More Predictable) Electorate: A Machine Learning Analysis of Voting in American Presidential Elections.”

    [7] Kim, Seo-young Silvia. 2023. “Automatic Voter Reregistration as a Housewarming Gift: Quantifying Causal Effects on Turnout Using Movers.” American Political Science Review. 117(3): 1137-44. DOI: 10.1017/S0003055422000983.

— “Automatic Voter Reregistration Can Substantially Boost Turnout.” The Conversation. Nov 4, 2022.

    [8] Kim, Seo-young Silvia. 2023. “Money in Politics: Self-Enrichment, Campaign Spending, and Golden Parachutes by Simon Weschle.” Political Science Quarterly, 138(3): 461-63. DOI: 10.1093/psquar/qqad047

    [9] Kim, Seo-young Silvia. “Grumbach, Jacob M. 2022. Laboratories Against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press.” Korean Journal of Legislative Studies 29(1): 207-212 (in Korean).

    [10] Lopez, Jennifer, R. Michael Alvarez, and Seo-young Silvia Kim. 2022. “Latinos, Group Identity, and Equal Opportunity on the 2020 California Ballot.” Social Science Quarterly. 103(7): 1572–86. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13217.

    [11] Cao, Jian, Seo-young Silvia Kim, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2022. “Bayesian Analysis of State Voter Registration Database Integrity.” Statistics, Politics and Policy 13(1): 19–40. DOI: 10.1515/spp- 2021-0016.

    [12] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, Hannah Lebovits, and Sarah Shugars. 2022. “Networking 101 for Graduate Students: Building a Bigger Table.” PS: Political Science & Politics. 55(2): 307-12. DOI: 10.1017/S1049096521001025.

    [13] Alvarez, R. Michael, Nicholas J. Adams-Cohen, Seo-young Silvia Kim and Yimeng Li. 2020. Securing Elections: How Data-Driven Election Monitoring Can Improve Democracy. Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781108887359

    [14] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, R. Michael Alvarez, and Christina M. Ramirez. 2020. “Who Voted in 2016? Using Fuzzy Forests to Understand Voter Turnout.” Social Science Quarterly. 101(2): 978– 988. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12777.

    [15] Alvarez, R. Michael, Jonathan N. Katz, and Seo-young Silvia Kim. 2020. “Hidden Donors: The Censoring Problem in U.S. Federal Campaign Finance Data.” Election Law Journal. 19(1): 1–18. DOI: 10.1089/elj.2019.0593.

    [16] Kim, Seo-young Silvia, Spencer Schneider, and R. Michael Alvarez. 2020. “Evaluating the Quality of Changes in Voter Registration Databases.” American Politics Research. 48(6): 670– 676. DOI: 10.1177/1532673X19870512.

학력

  ㄱ. 학부: 서울대학교 사회과학대학 경제학과, 사회학과 (2014년) 

           Seoul National University, B.A. in Economics, B.A. in Sociology

  ㄴ. 석사: 캘리포니아 공과대학 사회과학 석사 (2017년)

           California Institute of Technology, M.S. in Social Sciences

  ㄷ. 박사: 캘리포니아 공과대학 사회과학 박사 (2020년)

           California Institute of Technology, Ph.D. in Social Sciences

 

경력
 

  ㄱ. 서울대학교 정치외교학부 임용 이전 경력

      2024년~현재 서울대학교 정치외교학부 조교수

      Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Seoul National University

      2023년~2024년 서강대학교 정치외교학과 조교수

      Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Sogang University

      2020년~2023년 아메리칸대학교 정치학과 조교수

      Assistant Professor, Department of Government, American University

  ㄴ. 기타

     [1] 2023년~현재. 뉴욕대학교 법학부 브레넌 정의 센터(The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law) 사회과학 자문위원회 패널 회원

     [2] 2021년~현재. 아메리칸대학교 데이터 과학 센터 (Center for Data Science) 교수 연구원
                               Faculty Fellow, Center for Data Science, American University.

FIELDS OF STUDY

  1. Political Theory & Meothodology 이론, 방법론

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  1. American Politics 미국정치

  2. Political Methodology 정치학 방법론

  3. Computational Social Sciences 계산사회과학

  4. Political Behavior 정치행태

  5. Elections 선거

  6. Election Administration 선거관리

  7. Money in Politics 정치자금

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