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Cecilia Hyunjung Mo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, with a courtesy appointment in the Goldman School of Public Policy. Her research focuses on behavioral political economy and comparative political behavior, primarily addressing significant contemporary challenges in social policy and development. Among her interests, Mo studies the moral implications of democratic citizenship, the impacts of rising inequality, and strategies to combat modern-day slavery. She adopts an interdisciplinary approach that merges insights from political science, economics, and psychology. Mo is a co-lead scientific advisor for the Human Trafficking Research Initiative and has published her work in top academic journals, including the American Journal of Political Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She has received several prestigious awards, such as the Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award from the American Political Science Association in 2015, and the Emerging Scholar Award in 2020. Mo holds a Ph.D. in Political Economics from Stanford and Master's degrees from Stanford and Harvard.
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