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Education

Ph.D. in  Political Science, University of California, Riverside (2021-)

M.A. in  Political Science, Yonsei University (2019)

B.A. in Political Science, University of Minnesota (2016)

Publication

• Lee, Yoonseok (2025) . Local Exposure Effect of the 2018 South Korea Refugee Crisis. Asian Survey, 65(1), 96–130.

Publications in Korean 

• Cho, Eunmi, Sinjae Kang, Kyusik Yang, Yongjai Yu, Yoonseok Lee (2024) . Measuring Legislators’ Ideology and Analyzing Ideological Differences Across Standing Committees Using Wordfish: Evidence from the Minutes of Standing Committee Meetings in the 19th and 20th National Assembly. Journal of Research Methodology, 9(3), 33-79.

• Yu, Chamseul, and Yoonseok Lee (2020) . Epistemic Community in Regional Cooperation Stalemate: The Case of Nuclear Safety Cooperation in Northeast Asia. Journal of Social Science, 46(2), 115-148. 

• Kang, Sinjae,Yoonseok Lee, and Whasun Jho (2019). Automated Text Analysis on Media Partisanship and Sexual Minority Discourse in South Korean Society. Information Society & Media, 20(2), 145-174. 

Teaching

University of California, Riverside- Instructor

• Labor and Globalization (Fall 2023)

University of California, Riverside- Teaching Assistant

• Political Economy of International Migration (Spring 2025)

• Comparative Politics (Fall 2024)

• Labor and Globalization (Summer 2024)

• Globalization and Development (Spring 2024, Winter 2025)

• Modern Dictatorships (Winter 2024)

• Politics of the Underdeveloped World (Spring 2023, Winter 2023)

• World Politics (Fall 2022)

Yonsei University- Teaching Assistant

• International Political Economy (Fall 2018)

Awards & Honors

• IHS Humane Studies Fellowship (Institute for Humane Studies - George Mason University, 2025) 

• Korean Studies Grant 2025 (The Academy of Korean Studies, 2025) 

• Korean Honor Scholarship (Embassy of the Republic of Korea, 2024)

• Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship (University of California, Riverside, 2021 – Present)

• BK (Brain Korea) 21+ Scholarship (National Research Foundation of Korea, 2017–2019)

• Research Assistant Scholarship (Department of Political Science, Yonsei University, 2018)

• Research Assistant Scholarship (Center for Digital Social Science, 2018)

• Administrative Assistant Scholarship (Department of Political Science, Yonsei University, 2017–2018)