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 parties, electoral behavior, and methodology, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.

My book project broadly centers on representation in new democracies, focusing on how political parties and the nature of candidate selection influence the relationship between elected representatives and their constituents. 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 political campaigns in Africa, a geographic regression discontinuity to examine the relationship between communications technology and national identity, and a field experiment on the sources of anti-immigrant discrimination in Germany.

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