Research/Areas of Interest
Comparative politics, nationalism, democracy, mixed-methods causal inference, Korea and Asia politics
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Aram Hur
Associate Professor of Political Science
Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professorship in Korean Studies
Contact Information
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160 Packard Avenue
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Education
- PhD, Princeton University, Princeton, United States, 2015
- MPP, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, 2009
- BA with Honors, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, 2007
Biography
Aram Hur is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, where she holds the Kim Koo Chair in Korean Studies. Her research focuses on nationalism and democracy challenges in Asia.
Professor Hur is the author of Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (Cornell University Press, 2022), which won the 2023 Robert A. Dahl Award for "scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy" from the American Political Science Association. She is the 2021 Sherman Emerging Scholar Awardee by The Korea Society, a 2018-19 CSIS US-Korea NextGen Scholar, and the 2023 Gold Chalk Awardee for Teaching from the University of Missouri, where she taught previously.
She holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a B.A. with honors from Stanford University.
Professor Hur is the author of Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (Cornell University Press, 2022), which won the 2023 Robert A. Dahl Award for "scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy" from the American Political Science Association. She is the 2021 Sherman Emerging Scholar Awardee by The Korea Society, a 2018-19 CSIS US-Korea NextGen Scholar, and the 2023 Gold Chalk Awardee for Teaching from the University of Missouri, where she taught previously.
She holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a B.A. with honors from Stanford University.