Hyun Jeong Ha’s research interests include religion and politics, sectarianism, gender, ethnography, the Middle East, and South Korea. Her current project examines how Christian minorities experience religious difference as its meanings are produced, lived, and negotiated across diverse Egyptian spaces and classed communities. She has written on the Arab Uprisings, social discrimination toward religious minorities in the post-Arab Uprisings period, religious education, Islamic feminism, Islamic family law in Egypt and Tunisia, and qualitative research methods. Her work has appeared in leading journals, including the Journal of Peace Research, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change, among others, as well as in multiple edited volumes. She received the Nils Petter Gleditsch Journal of the Year Award in 2023.

She has a B.A. in Arabic from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, an M.S. in Sociology from Seoul National University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining DKU, she was a Global Religion Research Initiative Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame.