Jiyoon Kim

Hello, and welcome!

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at The Ohio State University on the 2025-2026 job market, specializing in the political psychology of international security, broadly construed.

My research centers on the political psychology of international security, broadly construed to include foreign policy, conflict resolution, human rights, and public opinion. I pursue this agenda through a robust mixed-methods toolkit, integrating qualitative methods and survey experiments with computational statistics and natural language processing.

In my dissertation, The Emotional Pulse of Foreign Policy: Status Perceptions, Emotions, and Policy Preferences, I demonstrate that emotions are a key mechanism linking perceptions of other countries to the foreign policies they attract. I draw on evidence from cross-national survey experiments, semi-structured interviews, and text analysis using emotional discourse analysis and large language models (LLMs).

Before coming to Ohio State, I earned my M.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Korea University in South Korea. If you’re interested in my work or would like to connect, I’d love to hear from you.