Hyun Joo Cho received her BA in International Studies from the University of Iowa and MA in International Security and Foreign Policy from Yonsei University. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2022. Her research interests focus on the interaction between domestic politics and international relations, international conflict, territorial disputes, and civil war. She was a Schroeder fellow at the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research (UIUC). Her research “Why Do Territorial Disputes Escalate? A Domestic Political Explanation for the Senkaku-Diaoyu Islands Dispute” has been published in Pacific Focus.