In addition to her publications in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in books, Junn has been an author or an editor of five books. Her first book,
Education and Democratic Citizenship in America, was coauthored with
Norman H. Nie and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry and published in 1996. The authors use data from the 1990 Citizen Participation Study to study how level of education affects political variables like engagement in American political processes. The book addresses a paradox that at the individual level, educational attainment has a very strong association with increased political engagement (as originally pointed out by
Philip Converse), but as the number of educated people in the United States grew over the second half of the 20th century, there was no corresponding increase in political involvement. The authors propose and test a novel model to explain this paradox, building on previous work by
Fred Hirsch. In 1998, Junn coauthored a second book about the relationship between civic engagement and education, publishing the book
Civic Education: What Makes Students Learn with Richard G. Niemi. She also edited the 2008 book
New Race Politics: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics with Kerry L. Haynie, and coauthored the 2011 book
Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities with Janelle Wong,
S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Taeku Lee. Junn has held leadership roles in several professional organizations and editorial positions at journals. She was the 2018–2019 President of the Western Political Science Association. From 2009 to 2010, where she was also the program co-chair for the 2008 annual conference. She was also a director at the
Association of American Universities for four years. Junn has been quoted and her work has been cited extensively in news outlets like
The Washington Post,
The Atlantic,
The New York Times,
The Chicago Tribune, and
The Globe and Mail. ==Selected works==