Ahyoung Cho

232 BAY STATE RD · BOSTON, MA 02215 · aycho@bu.edu

I am a Political Science PhD candidate at Boston University. My research investigates how racial and ethnic politics shape decision-making in the policy arena, with a particular focus on environmental justice.

My dissertation examines how the politics of climate change and racial equity interacts at the city level and how race and ethnicity, gender, and partisanship jointly shape attitudes toward climate change at the individual level.

I am also a part of interdisciplinary research projects that are rooted in urban public policy, racial inequities in health outcomes, and identity politics. As a political methodologist, I use various analytical techniques in my research including network, spatial, and text analyses. My co-authored and solo-authored research has been published in The Journal of Legislative Studies and JAMA Network Open.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Environmental Politics, Climate Justice, Racial Disparities, Urban Politics, Public Opinion and Political Methodology

TEACHING INTERESTS: American Politics, Environmental Politics, Social and Racial Justice, Race and Ethnic Politics, and Data Science for Politics

Research

Publications

[4] "A dataset of geocoded Medicaid office locations in the United States". (with Paul R. Shafer, Maxwell Palmer, Mara Lynch, Pierce Louis, and Alexandra Skinner). Data in Brief, 2024, Volume 53, 110068. (Read)

[3] "Climate Change Co-Sponsorship Networks in South Korea: Focusing on Formal and Informal Ties of Legislators". The Journal of Legislative Studies, 2023, 29(2), 291-311. (Read)

[2] "COVID-19 Mortality by Race and Ethnicity in US Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas, March 2020 to February 2022" (with Dielle J Lundberg, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Rafeya Raquib, Elaine O Nsoesie, Eugenio Paglino, Ruijia Chen, Mathew V Kiang, Alicia R Riley, Yea-Hung Chen, Marie-Laure Charpignon, Katherine Hempstead, Samuel H Preston, Irma T Elo, M Maria Glymour, and Andrew C Stokes). JAMA Network Open, 2023, 6(5), e2311098-e2311098. (Read)
- A preprint of this study was covered by a New York Times article (Read)

[1] "Association of Neighborhood Racial and Ethnic Composition and Historical Redlining With Built Environment Indicators Derived From Street View Images in the US" (with Yukun Yang, Quynh Nguyen, and Elaine O Nsoesie). JAMA Network Open, 2023, 6(1) e2251201-e2251201. (Read)

Working Papers

- Local Politics and Racially Equitable Climate Plans: Evidence from 118 Cities in America

- The Intersectionality of Race and Gender in Climate Beliefs and Attitudes in America with Moderating Effect of Partisanship

- My “Kind” of Food: How Ethnic Food Categories Were Changed in Mainstream Media (with Minhyung Kang and Yukun Yang)

- Census Tract Built Environment Resources in Relation to Contemporary Social Characteristics and Historical Redlining (with Yukun Yang, Quynh Nguyen, and Elaine O. Nsoesie)

- Cities’ Approach to Racial Equity Plans is Associated with Political and Sociodemographic Factors (with Elaine O. Nsoesie, Shivam Bhardwaj, Leanne Villareal, and Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba)

Work in Progress

- Computational Analysis of Food Discourses in Traditional and Social Media (with Yukun Yang)

- Cities and Climate Networks: Which Cities Can Advance Racial Equity?

Teaching

Boston University

INSTRUCTOR

- PO 399 Data Science for Politics (Summer 2023)

TEACHING FELLOW

- SJ 101 Social and Racial Justice: Systems and Structures (with discussion sections; Fall 2023, Spring 2024)

- PO 111 Introduction to American Politics (with discussion sections; Fall 2020, Fall 2022)

- PO 313 The Politics and Policy of HBO's The Wire (Spring 2022)

- PO 303 It's a Free Country: Civil Liberties in America (Spring 2021)

- PO 843 Maximum Likelihood Estimation (Spring 2020)

GRADER

- PO 502 Political Analysis (Fall 2020)

Ahyoung Cho

Research

Publications

Working Papers

Work in Progress

Teaching

Boston University

Education

Boston University

Seoul National University

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

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