Jihyun Jeong

I am a political theorist specializing in normative political theory and currently working as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke Kunshan University. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University. My research focuses on the ethics of victimhood and resistance in democratic politics. My broader research interests include meritocracy and hate speech. 

My book project develops a democratic ethics of resistance, asking how citizens who experience oppression should resist injustice and relate to their fellow citizens in doing so. It examines how victimhood can become a source of political agency and explores the ethical and epistemic demands that resistance places on both oppressed citizens and their fellow citizens. My work has appeared in the European Journal of Political Theory.

Before beginning my academic career, I earned a J.D., qualified as a lawyer in South Korea, and worked as a Junior Legal Officer at the International Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. I have lived in five countries across three continents.