Rate My Professor Yunji Kim

Previous roles include Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University from 2019 to 2021 and Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2017 to 2019. Notable publications include Community Wellbeing and Public Management Theory: How Theory can Explain Pandemic Responses (International Journal of Community Well-Being, 2025, with Joseph Drew); The Role of Local Governments in South Korea’s COVID-19 Response (Public Administration and Development, 2023); Pragmatic Municipalism or Austerity Urbanism? Understanding Local Government Responses to Fiscal Stress (Local Government Studies, 2021); Blocking the Progressive City: How State Preemptions Undermine Labor Rights in the US (Urban Studies, 2020); Limits of Fiscal Federalism: How Narratives of Local Government Inefficiency Facilitate Scalar Dumping in New York State (Environment and Planning A, 2019); and Economy Doesn’t Buy Community Wellbeing: a Study of Factors Shaping Community Wellbeing in South Korea (International Journal of Community Well-Being, 2018). She delivered the lecture International Perspectives on Local Government Financial Sustainability at the University of Newcastle. Kim's scholarship informs policies on local fiscal sustainability and community wellbeing across the United States, Korea, and Australia.