Cecilia Hyunjung Mo
# Cecilia Hyunjung Mo

Cecilia Hyunjung Mo is currently an associate professor of Political Science at the University of California - Berkeley. She focuses her work and research on a number of issues including American Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Behavior, as well as Public Policy. A majority of her work is focused on the research methods and models surrounding bounded rationality, and other models of decision making.

## Education

Cecilia Hyungjung Mo has received her Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics & Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Southern California. She went on the get her M.A. in Secondary Education from Loyola Marymount University. She has another M.A. in Political Science from Stanford University. In 2012 she received her Ph.D. in Political Economics.

## Published works

### Asian-American participation in U.S. Politics

**Why Do Asian Americans Identify As Democrats? Testing Theories of Social Exclusion and Intergroup Solidarity**

Mo examines the causes of why Asian-American voters are majority Democrat. She looks at two major causes: 1) social exclusion and 2) intergroup solidarity. Her work goes on to identify possible explanations of racial political behavior in the United States electoral process.

**Why Asian Americans don't Vote Republican**

Washington Post's article by Cecilia Mo discusses the possible explanations of why Asian Americans tend to lean more left than right. Her research focuses on the assumption that Asian Americans income would sway them more Republican, but offers instead that because of the political climate towards Asian Americans, they tend to vote Democrat.

## Selected awards

* American Political Science Association 2015 Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award
* International Society of Political Psychology 2018 Roberta Sigel Early Career Scholar Best Paper Award
* American Political Science Association 2020 Emerging Scholar in Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior Award
