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 political behavior, firm strategy, and economic governance. I study how exposure to trade, technological change, and global production shapes individuals’ political preferences and how firms respond to regulatory, political, and social pressures. A central strand of my research examines the governance of global production networks: how firms, governments, and international institutions extend economic and social rules across organizational and national boundaries, how these rules diffuse through supply chains, and where their reach is limited. Across these projects, I am particularly interested in how the organization of the global economy distributes adjustment costs, political influence, and responsibility among workers, firms, and states.

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