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Steven Denney

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.

Research Focus

  • Experiments and survey design
  • Machine learning and computational text analysis
  • Large language models for political discourse
  • Nations, nationalism, and immigration attitudes

Teaching (AY2025-26)

Open Resources

Current Projects

  • 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
  • AI Workforce Intelligence Initiative — Measuring AI's impacts and trends on Canada's workforce and economy, with The Dais, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • Nationalism and Political Change — How institutions shape national identity

Recent Publications

  • 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

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