Political Scientist
& Computational Researcher
Dr. Jung is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Mount St. Mary's University, where she studies populism, political rhetoric, and the durability of democratic institutions across established and emerging democracies.
Her work turns on a question of degree rather than kind. Populist politics unsettles democracies everywhere, yet only sometimes does it corrode them, and she traces the ideological, institutional, and identity-based conditions that separate the two.
She works between comparative political behavior and computational social science, pairing survey experiments with large-scale text analysis and using large language models to read political discourse at a scale hand-coding cannot reach.
9 peer-reviewed articles, 6 papers under review, and 12 projects in progress, including the book Populism in East Asia.
Summer Faculty Development Research Grant (PI), Mount St. Mary's University, 2025 and 2026. CIDD Fellowship, 2026.
Reviewer for Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Government & Opposition, Research & Politics, Risk Analysis, Representation, and the American Political Science Review.
Steering Committee, Young Scholars Initiative on Populism (Team Populism). MPSA Mentor. Technology Advisory Committee, Mount St. Mary's University. Faculty Advisor, Student Club on International Culture.