Welcome! I am a Postdoctoral  Fellow in the Penn Program on Identity and Conflict, University of Pennsylvania. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. I specialize in comparative politics,  political behavior, and political methodology, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.

My dissertation research broadly centers on representation in new democracies, focusing on how political parties and the nature of candidate selection influence the behavior of elected representatives. The fieldwork for this research has been supported by the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS), as well as the Institute for International Studies (IIS) and Center for African Studies (CAS) at UC Berkeley. 

I am also working on a series of research projects on political behavior and identity politics. These include a field experiment on political accountability under a devolved system, a natural experiment to identify the effect of campaign rallies in Africa, a geographic regression discontinuity to examine the relationship between mobile phone coverage and national identity , and a large network survey of political candidates in Zambia.  

You can reach me at dhchoi [at] sas.upenn.edu.
You can access my CV [here].