Biography

SoYun Chang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at The Ohio State University specializing in International Relations and Political Methodology. Her research focuses on international organizations, institutional reform, international law, compliance, and global governance (with a special focus on health and climate politics). For her dissertation, she examines how scholars conceptualize and measure institutional reform across international organizations, and whether a particular conceptualization (1) masks variation across institutional reforms, and (2) has implications for the understanding of Rational Design and the greater Liberal International Order (LIO). She employs a diverse methodological toolkit, including experiments, statistical methods, text analysis, and machine learning. She is also interested in how concepts are developed, measured, and adopted into research design.

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