About Julie

Julie Chernov Hwang is an associate professor of political science and international relations at Goucher College.  She is the recipient of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award (2023-2024) where she will study how terror cells are constructed.  She is the author of Becoming Jihadis: Radicalization and Commitment in Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press, 2023); Why Terrorists Quit: The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists (Cornell University Press, 2018); Peaceful Islamist Mobilization in the Muslim World: What Went Right, (Palgrave Press, 2009); and the co-editor of Islamist Parties and Political Normalization in the Muslim World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014).  Her articles have been published in Political Psychology, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Terrorism and Political Violence, Asian Survey, Asian Security, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Asia-Pacific Issues, Southeast Asia Research, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, RSIS Commentaries, CTC Sentinel, the Middle East-Asia Project, and Lawfare. Her current research explores the construction of terrorist cells; the role of training camps in the construction of Southeast Asian terrorist networks; the role of formers in multi-sectoral P/CVE programming; and how we can best measure progress in deradicalization.