Eun A Jo

Eun A Jo is a PhD Candidate in the Government Department at Cornell University, a 2022-2023 Predoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University. She is interested in political narratives, memory, and the domestic politics of international relations, with a focus on East Asia.

Her dissertation explores how post-conflict states narrate their founding moments and why these founding stories change. Her project received Cornell University Government Department’s Kahin Prize in international relations for the most promising dissertation (2022). A paper from this research, titled “Memory, Institutions, and the Domestic Politics of South Korean-Japanese Relations,” is published in International Organization and received the Fred Hartmann Award (2023), the Women’s Caucus for International Studies Award (2022), the ISA Theory Section Pre-PhD Award (2022), and an honorable mention for the Barbara W. Tuchman Award (2022) from the International Studies Association.