Danny Choi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University. His research and teaching focus on political parties, identity politics, immigration, and African politics.
His work on these themes has been published (or is forthcoming) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Political Analysis, among others.
His first (co-authored) book, Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants, was published by Princeton University Press in the Princeton Studies in Political Behavior series in 2022. It received the Best Book Award from the Experimental Research Section of APSA in 2023.
He is currently completing his second book, Severed Connections: Intraparty Politics and Representation in Kenya, which won APSA’s Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy presented by the Democracy and Autocracy Section of APSA in 2020.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. Prior to joining Brown, he was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh and a pre/postdoctoral fellow at the Identity & Conflict Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
