Soohyun Cho

I am an Assistant Professor of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College. I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science in 2023 from Ohio State University.

My research examines how global economic integration reshapes domestic labor markets, political identities, and firm behavior. I focus on how exposure to globalization generates economic insecurity and how that insecurity translates into political preferences and policy responses.

Substantively, my work advances three research agendas. First, I analyze how gender and structural inequalities condition attitudes toward economic policy and globalization, including trade, immigration, automation, and foreign aid. Second, I study how firms adopt and diffuse international environmental and labor norms. Third, I examine how firms’ positions and vulnerabilities within global supply chains shape their political behavior and policy engagement. Methodologically, I draw on causal inference, survey experiments, and firm-level data.

I earned my B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from Seoul National University, South Korea. My work has been supported by the Fulbright Fellowship, the Presidential Fellow at OSU, and other grants including the APSA Centennial Center Research Grant and the APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.

Email: s.cho[at].bowdoin.edu