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

  1. New Trade, Old Politics: Trade Liberalization and Polarization of World Order

  2. Protectionism for Whom?: Economic Globalization and Zombie Tariffs


Additional Training

  1. Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM) Summer Institute, University of Houston, 2019

  2. Inter-University Consortium on Political and Social Research (ICPSR), Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, 2014



Teaching Experience


Research Methods:

  1. Introduction to Data Science (Undergraduate): Teaching Assistant, Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton University, Spring 2022 (Professor Ricardo Pereira Masini)

  2. Mathematics for Political Science (Graduate): Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, Fall 2018 (Professor Peter Bils)

  3. Policy Research Seminar: Quantitative Methods (Undergraduate): Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, Fall 2017, Spring 2018 (Professor Will Lowe)

  4. Visualizing Data (Undergraduate): Coding Tutor, Princeton University, Summer 2016 (Professor Kosuke Imai)


Substantive:

  1. International Relations (Undergraduate): Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, Fall 2020 (Professor Rebecca Perlman)

  2. 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