Junyu Jiang

Incoming Ph.D. Student in Political Science

University of California, Davis

I am completing my M.S. in Computational Social Science at UC San Diego and will begin a Ph.D. in Political Science at UC Davis in September 2026. My research sits at the intersection of media and politics, examining how political concepts are contested and reshaped in constrained media environments. I employ computational text analysis and network analysis to map the dynamics of identity politics—from investigating how the 'nation' is negotiated in electoral discourse to decoding digital infrapolitics such as Han ethno-nationalism and ideological myths. Currently, I am a research assistant at the Ukrainian Poetry Digital Archive with Prof. Amelia Glasser, where I analyze linguistic patterns and pronoun usage in wartime literature. I hold a B.A. (Honors) from the Communication University of China, completed via a joint program with the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Name pronunciation (IPA): Junyu 竣羽 [tɕyn˥˩ y˨˩˦] Jiang 蒋 [tɕiɑŋ˨˩˦]