Comparative politics of East Asia, nationalism, democracy, Korean politics and society
Aram Hur is the Kim Koo Chair in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. Her research focuses on nationalism and democracy in East Asia, with special attention to issues of identity, integration, and democratic support in the Korean peninsula and Taiwan.
Professor Hur is the author of Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (Cornell University Press, 2022), which was part of the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. Her research is published in leading disciplinary journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, and Journal of East Asian Studies and widely cited in domestic and international media. She was selected as the 2021 Sherman Emerging Scholar by The Korea Society, a 2018-19 CSIS US-Korea NextGen Scholar, and is the recipient of the 2023 Gold Chalk Award for teaching and advising from the University of Missouri. She also serves on the Editorial Board for Asian Survey.
Prior to The Fletcher School, Professor Hur served on the faculty at the University of Missouri, where she was also Co-Director of the MU Institute for Korean Studies. She was previously a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University. She holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University, an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a BA with honors from Stanford University.
