SoYun Chang

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the Ohio State University specializing in International Relations and Political Methodology. I am also a Student Affiliate at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at OSU.

My research focuses on international organizations, institutional reform, international law, compliance, and global governance (with a special focus on health/climate politics). For my dissertation, I examine how scholars conceptualize and measure institutional reform across international organizations, and whether a particular conceptualization (1) masks variation across institutional reforms, (2) has implications for the understanding of rational design and the greater Liberal International Order (LIO). I employ a diverse methodological toolkit, including experiments, statistical methods, text analysis, and machine learning. Relatedly, I am also interested how concepts are developed, measured, and adopted into research design.

Before Ohio State, I completed my B.A. in International Studies and History at Boston College and my M.A. in Political Science and International Relations at Seoul National University.

Please feel free to contact me via email at chang.2318@osu.edu!