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Jiyoung Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. Her research focuses on how climate change affects intergroup relations in the Global South. She is currently working on a book project that examines the impacts of climate change-induced economic hardship on the social fabric of ethnically diverse communities, with Nigeria as a primary research site. Her work is part of a broader research portfolio that includes studies on public attitudes toward climate-induced migration, building social cohesion in conflict-affected areas, and gender issues. Methodologically, she employs a diverse toolkit that includes statistical inference, geospatial analysis, surveys, and experiments, and she conducts extensive in-depth fieldwork interviews.
Department of Psychology