CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Information Full Name: Kyung Joon Han Email: khan1@utk.edu Institution address: Department of Political Science University of Tennessee, Knoxville 1001 McClung Tower, TN 37996-0410 Fax: (865) 974-7037 Phone: (865) 974-7046 Academic Appointment 2017-Current Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2010-2017 Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Education 2010 Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles 2007 M.A. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles 2001 M.A., International Relations, Seoul National University, Korea 1999 B.A., International Relations, Seoul National University, Korea Additional Professional Training Summer 2007 Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Publication 1) Han, Kyung Joon. Beclouding Party Position as an Electoral Strategy: Voter Polarization, Issue Priority, and Position Blurring, British Journal of Political Science (forthcoming). 2) Castater, Eric G. and Kyung Joon Han. Trying Not to Lose: The Electoral Consequences of Unilateral Reform Efforts and the Social Pact Formation Process, European Journal of Political Research (forthcoming). 3) Han, Kyung Joon. It Hurts When It Really Matters: Electoral Effect of Party Position Shift regarding Sociocultural Issues, Party Politics (forthcoming). 1
4) Castater, Eric G. and Kyung Joon Han. 2016. Deal or No Deal: Labor Union Fractionalization and Social Pact Agreement, West European Politics 39 (6): 1251-1275. 5) Han, Kyung Joon and Eric G. Castater. 2016. They May Not Have the Skills but They Have the Desire: How a Compositional Aspect of Trade Unions Determines Wage Inequality, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 45: 1-12. 6) Han, Kyung Joon. 2016. Income Inequality and Voting for Radical Right-Wing Parties, Electoral Studies 42: 54-64. 7) Han, Kyung Joon. 2015. When Will Left-Wing Governments Introduce Liberal Migration Policies? An Implication of Power Resources Theory, International Studies Quarterly 59 (3): 602-614. 8) Han, Kyung Joon. 2015 The Impact of Radical Right-Wing Parties on the Positions of Mainstream Parties Regarding Multiculturalism, West European Politics 38 (3): 557-576. 9) Han, Kyung Joon. 2013. Income Inequality, International Migration, and Nationalistic Pride: A Test of Social Identification Theory, International Journal of Public Opinion Research 25 (4): 502-521. 10) Han, Kyung Joon. 2013. Saving Public Pension: Labor Migration Effects on Pension Systems in European Countries, Social Science Journal 50 (2): 152-161. 11) Han, Kyung Joon. 2013. Political Use of Asylum Policies: The Effects of Partisanship and Election Timing on Government Policies Regarding Asylum Seekers Welfare Benefits, Comparative European Politics 11 (4): 383-405. 12) Han, Kyung Joon. 2009. Policy Decisiveness and Responses to Speculative Attacks in Developed Countries, European Journal of Political Research 48 (6): 723-755. Papers under review - Han, Kyung Joon. When Should I Put All of My Eggs in One Basket? Past Election Results, Issue Salience, and the Nicheness of Political Parties - Han, Kyung Joon. Issue Competence Voting as Strategic Voting: Party Support for Ecology Parties in Western Europe Working papers - Han, Kyung Joon. Reacting to Isolation: How the Political Exclusion of Extreme Right-wing Parties Changes the Party Support 2
Invited online blog contribution - How Mainstream Parties React to the Rise of Radical Right-wing Parties, Democratic Audit UK, London School of Economics (http://www.democraticaudit.com/?p=14724). - How Position Shifts regarding Sociocultural Issues May (or May Not) Hurt Political Parties, Democratic Audit UK, London School of Economics (http://www.democraticaudit.com/?p=22295). - Why the Skill Composition of Trade Unions Matters for Wage Inequality, Work in Progress: Short-form Sociology on the Economy, Work, and Inequality, the American Sociology Association (https://workinprogress.oowsection.org/2016/10/25/why-the-skill-composition-oftrade-unions-matters-for-wage-inequality/). Invited Talks - What Makes Niche Parties Niche Parties? Past Election Result, Issue Salience, and the Nicheness of Niche Parties, presented at the 3 rd Comparative Politics Annual Conference at the Department of Political Science, Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, May 1, 2015 Conference Papers - Reacting to Isolation: How the Political Exclusion of Extreme Right-wing Parties Changes the Party Support, presented at the 75 th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 8, 2017 - Issue Competence Voting as Strategic Voting: Party Support for Ecology Parties, presented at the 112 th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 2, 2016 - Beclouding Party Positions as an Electoral Strategy: Voter Polarization, Issue Dimensionality, and Position Blurring, presented at the 74 th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 8, 2016 - What If We Can t Agree? The Electoral Consequences of Social Pacts, presented at the 74 th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 8, 2016 - Beclouding Party Positions as an Electoral Strategy: Voter Polarization, Issue Dimensionality, and Position Blurring, presented at the 87 th Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 7, 2016 - Deal or No Deal: Labor Union Fractionalization and Social Pact Agreement, presented at the 73 rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 18, 3
2015 - What Makes Niche Parties Niche Parties? Past Election Result, Issue Salience, and the Nicheness of Niche Parties, presented at the 73 rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 17, 2015 - Follow Me If I Follow You: Electoral Effect of Party Position Shift regarding Sociocultural Issues, presented at the 110 th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., August 29, 2014 - When Demand Meets Supply: Immigration, Party Position, and Vote Share of Radical Right- Wing Parties, presented at the 72 nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 3, 2014 - They May Not Have the Skills but They Have the Desire: How a Compositional Aspect of Trade Unions Determines Wage Inequality, presented at the 72 nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 4, 2014 - A Junction of Cultural and Economic Threats: Different Facets of Ethnic Diversity and the Support for Radical Right-wing Parties, presented at the 71 st Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 14, 2013 - The Impact of Extreme Right-Wing Parties on the Positions of Mainstream Parties on Multiculturalism, presented at the 84 th Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 4, 2013 - Income Inequality, Class, and Voting for Extreme Right-Wing Parties: An Implication of Social Identification Theory, presented at the University of Tennessee Conference on the Politics of Income Inequality, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 19, 2012 - The Impact of Extreme Right-Wing Parties on the Positions of Mainstream Parties on Multiculturalism, presented at the 70 th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 13, 2012 - Party Competition and Party Behavior: The Impact of Extreme Right-Wing Parties on Mainstream Parties Positions on Multiculturalism, presented at the Southern California Comparative Political Institutions conference, UCLA, September 16, 2011 - Saving Public Pension: Labor Migration Effects on Pension Systems in European Countries, presented at the 82 nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 7, 2011 - Do Hard Times Reduce Inequality? presented at the 106 th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., September 2, 2010 4
- Conditional Partisan Effects on International Migration: Labor s Constraint on Left-wing Governments, presented at the 68 th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 23, 2010 - Welfare States, Fiscal Pressure and Public Attitudes toward Migrants, presented at the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy Graduate Student Conference, New York, May 8, 2009 - Politics of Exclusion: Electoral Politics and Welfare Cuts on Asylum Seekers, presented at the 104 th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, August 30, 2008 - Compensation Effects of International Migration: Unskilled Foreign Workers and Social Welfare in Developed European Countries, presented at the 66 th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 3, 2008 - Skill Mix of Immigrants and Public Attitudes toward Immigration in the United States, presented at the 102 nd American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 1, 2006 - An Institutional Approach to the Primary in South Korea: Front-loading Effect in the New Millennium Democratic Party s Citizen-Participatory Presidential Primary in 2002, presented at the 101 st American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, September 1, 2005 (co-authored with Wooyeal Paik) - Immigration, Wage Rates, and Immigration Policy Making, presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 5, 2005 - The Effect of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Inflows of Foreign Workers to Developed Countries, presented at the International Studies Association West Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2, 2004 - The Making of the Environmental Policy of the Reagan Administration: Focusing on the Concept of Relative Gains, presented at the 62 nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 16, 2004 Research Experience - Research Assistant, Center for International Studies, Seoul National University, from September 2000 to July 2001 Awards and Scholarship - UCLA University Fellowship (2006-2008) 5
- ICPSR Fellowship (2007) - Korean Government Overseas Scholarship (2003-2005) - Honors Student Scholarship (1998) Academic Memberships - American Political Science Association - Midwest Political Science Association - Southern Political Science Association - Southern California Comparative Political Institutions - International Political Economy Society - Council for European Studies - The Society for Political Methodology 6