# Sun Young Park PhD Candidate in Government, GSAS ![Sun Young Park](/sites/g/files/omnuum8171/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-07/Sun-Young-Park_2025.jpg?h=c88841ef&itok=GL7rkzgH) email laptop\_windows [Website](http://www.sun-young-park.com/) Sun Young Park is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. She studies political behavior and electoral politics in advanced democracies. Her research addresses how political divisions and animosities between social groups are shaped by the interplay of economic structure, social environments, and psychological mechanisms. To theorize the interactions of these macro-, meso-, and micro-level factors, she combines perspectives of political economy, political sociology, and political psychology. Specifically, her work has focused on why gender and geographic divides in political attitudes arise in contemporary democracies. She uses big data analysis, deep learning, spatial analysis, statistical causal inference, and survey methodology to answer these questions. Sun Young is an affiliate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Center for European Studies and the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard. Before coming to Harvard, she completed a B.A. in economics and political science and a M.A. in political science at Seoul National University. - ## People By Last Name [M - P](/people-last-name/m-p) - ## Role [Affiliated Graduate Students](/role/affiliated-graduate-students)