Sungyeon Kim

Sungyeon Kim is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She holds an M.A. in Political Science from Ewha Womans University, an M.A. in Global Economy and Strategy from Yonsei University, and a B.S. in Public Affairs from Indiana University Bloomington. Her research focuses on the relationship between the executive and legislative branches in U.S. politics, with particular attention to how institutional and individual-level factors influence presidential unilateral actions. Her recent work, published in the Korean journal American Studies, examines how political conflict shapes modes of unilateral action in immigration policy. 

• B.A. (Public Affairs) - Indiana University
• M.A. (Global Economy and Strategy) - Yonsei University
• M.A. (Political Science) - Ewha Womans University