Assistant Professor of International Relations and Korean Studies, Leiden University
I bridge digital humanities with quantitative social science to study national identity, migration, and political change.
- Experiments and survey design
- Machine learning and computational text analysis
- Large language models for political discourse
- Nations, nationalism, and immigration attitudes
- Digital Korea: Introduction to Computational Text Analysis
- Digital Humanities
- BA Thesis Seminar
- International Relations
- Fairness or Threat? — Understanding sources of immigration backlash across democracies
- Textbooks, Nation, and AI: Reconstructing Korean National Identity — Using national history textbooks analyzed by AI to inform survey measures of national identity
- Nationalism and Political Change — How institutions shape national identity
- Denney, S., Steinhardt, H. C., & Bhowmick, L. (2026). Identity conformity in Taiwan and South Korea: Why citizens in divided societies are pressured to overstate national pride. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2026.2616954
- Brehm, R. C., Denney, S., & Zhou, T. (2025). From division to democracy: Integrating post-socialist citizens in Germany and South Korea. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1525/cpcs.2025.2636997
- Ward, P., & Denney, S. (2025). Welfare chauvinism in divided societies: The role of national identity in social policy preferences. Policy and Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puaf027
- Ward, P., & Denney, S. (2025). Partisan voters in party systems with ephemeral parties: Evidence from South Korea. Party Politics, 0(0), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688251339976