Diana Da In Lee

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Diana Da In Lee is a political scientist whose research examines racial politics and representation in the United States, with particular emphasis on candidate emergence, local government, and the institutions that shape democratic participation. Her work also develops new methodological approaches to measurement, experimentation, and external validity in social science. Her research has been published or is forthcoming in leading journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, and Nature: Scientific Data. Her scholarship has received national recognition, including the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) Civic Engagement Section and the Best Paper Award from the APSA Experimental Research Section. Before joining Vanderbilt University, Dr. Lee was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.