C.V.
Research & Teaching Interests
International Political Economy, Trade Politics, Public Opinion, International Institutions, Quantitative Methods, Text Analysis/Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning
Education
Ph.D. in Politics at Princeton University, 2015-2022 (Expected)
Dissertation: International Political Economy with Changing Preferences
Committee: Helen Milner (Chair), Kris Ramsay, James Vreeland, John Londregan
Fields: International Relations, Comparative Politics, Formal & Quantitative Methods
M.A. in Regional Studies: East Asia at Harvard University, 2013-2015
B.A. in International Studies at Ewha Women's University, 2007-2012
Publications
(with Leif-Eric Easley) ''China's Norms in Its Near-Abroad: Understanding Beijing's North Korea Policy,'' Journal of Contemporary China (2016), Vol. 25, Issue 101.
Working Papers
Betting against the Status Quo: Changing Trade Policy Preferences under Uncertainty
Works in Progress
New Trade, Old Politics: Trade Liberalization and Polarization of World Order
Protectionism for Whom?: Economic Globalization and Zombie Tariffs
Additional Training
Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute, University of Houston, 2019
Inter-University Consortium on Political and Social Research (ICPSR), Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, 2014
Teaching Experience
Research Methods:
Introduction to Data Science (Undergraduate): Teaching Assistant, Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton University, Spring 2022 (Professor Ricardo Pereira Masini)
Mathematics for Political Science (Graduate): Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, Fall 2018 (Professor Peter Bils)
Policy Research Seminar: Quantitative Methods (Undergraduate): Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, Fall 2017, Spring 2018 (Professor Will Lowe)
Visualizing Data (Undergraduate): Coding Tutor, Princeton University, Summer 2016 (Professor Kosuke Imai)
Substantive:
International Relations (Undergraduate): Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, Fall 2020 (Professor Rebecca Perlman)
World History I (Prison Teaching Initiative, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, NJ): Co-Instructor, Fall 2019
Conference Participation
"Betting Against the Status Quo: Changing Trade Policy Preferences under Uncertainty"
American Political Science Association (APSA). Annual meeting, 2019 & 2020
Fellowships & Grants
Niehaus Center for Global Governance Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University, 2021-2022
Program for Quantitative and Analytical Political Science Fellowship, Princeton University, 2018-2022
Dean's Completion Fellowship, 2020-2021
The Kenneth W. Gemmill '32 Fellowship in Politics (Princeton University), 2018-2019
The Parker D. Handy University Fellowship (Princeton University), 2016-2017
Japan-ROK Dialogue Fellowship (JIIA), 2015
Harvard-Yenching Graduate Student Fellowship (Harvard University), 2013-2015
Service & Activities
Referee: Journal of Contemporary China
Coordinator, Pizza and Politics (Graduate Workshop), Department of Politics, Princeton University, 2016 - 2018
Consultant, Program for Quantitative & Analytical Political Science, Princeton University, 2018-2019
Consultant, Data and Statistical Services, Princeton University, 2017-2019
Technical Skills
C, R, Python, Shell, Stata, MATLAB, Hadoop, AWS
References
Helen Milner
Department of Politics
447 Robertson Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
hmilner@princeton.edu
Kristopher Ramsay
Department of Politics
303 Fisher Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
kramsay@princeton.edu
John Londregan
Department of Politics
307 Fisher Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
jbl@princeton.edu
James Vreeland
Department of Politics
442 Robertson Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
jrv@princeton.edu