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Maryum Alam

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Maryum Alam

Ph.D. Candidate (ABD)

alam.75@osu.edu

2185 Derby Hall

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Maryum is a Political Science Ph.D. Candidate (ABD, Expected Spring 2025) at The Ohio State University with specializations in International Relations and Political Methodology. Her research revolves around time horizons, foreign policy decision-making, public opinion, and international conflict. She relies on a number of methods to answer these questions, including advanced statistical estimation, experiments, and historical process tracing.

Maryum's co-authored research has been published in The American Journal of Political Science.

​Maryum will be a Brady-Johnson Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University International Security Studies in 2024-2025. Previously, she held a 2023-2024 Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center. Her work has also been supported by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. Maryum is also a member of the Modeling Emergent Social Order (MESO) Lab at Ohio State.

She received her M.A. in Political Science from Indiana University Bloomington in 2018, and a B.A. in political science and biology (with high honors) from Hofstra University in 2016.