Sungmin Rho
Contact Information
Graduate of International and Development Studies Maison de la Paix
Chemin Eugene-Rigot 2 1211 Geneva, Switzerland Case postale 136
Phone: +41-78-629-43-38
Email: sungmin.rho@graduateinstitute.ch
Employment 2016 – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations 2015 – 2016 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Post-doctoral Fellow,Center for the Study of Contemporary China
Education Stanford University, Stanford, CA Ph.D., Political Science, Jan 2016
• Advisors: Jean Oi (Chair), Michael Tomz, Lisa Blaydes, and Beatriz Magaloni
• Dissertation Title: The Workers’ Dilemma: Factory Workers and Collective Action in China
Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
B.A., Economics (Major) and Psychology (Minor), Jan 2008
• Summa Cum Laude
Research Interests
International and Comparative Political Economy, Chinese Politics, Migration and Immigration, Globalization, Public Opinion, Survey and Field Experiments
Book Manuscript
“Atomized Incorporation: Political Economy of State-Labor Relations in Contemporary China,”Book Manuscript (2016, Geneva, Switzerland).
Articles “Why Don’t Trade Preferences Reflect Economic Self-Interest?” (with Michael Tomz), forthcoming,International Organization
Working Papers
“Industry, Self-Interest, and Individual Preferences over Trade Policy” (with Michael Tomz),Revise and Resubmit
“Atomized Incorporation: Labor Management Strategy in Contemporary China,” July 2016, University of Pennsylvania
“Anti-foreign Sentiment and Labor Protest: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in China,” May 2016, University of Pennsylvania
“Media as a Viable Option: Factory-based Collective Action and Migrant Labor in China,” May 2016, University of Pennsylvania
Ongoing Research Projects
“Female Revolutionaries?: Gender and Collective Action in South China”
“Emigration from Non-democracies : A Comparative Study of Chinese Guest Workers and North Korean Defectors in South Korea”
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Conference Presentations
“Who Welcomes Globalization?: Effects of Income Inequality and Upward Mobility”
• Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meetings Apr 2011
“Industry, Self-Interest, and Individual Preferences over Trade Policy” (with Michael Tomz)
• American Political Science Association Annual Meetings Sep 2011
• American Political Science Association Annual Meetings Sep 2012
• The International Political Economy Society Nov 2011
• American Political Science Association Annual Meetings Sep 2012
• Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meetings Apr 2013
• American Political Science Association Annual Meetings Aug 2013
“Local Variation in Public Good Provision to Migrant Workers in China”
• The Eighth Graduate Seminar on China, CUHK, Hong Kong Jan 2012
“Workers’ Collective Action in the Pearl Delta River Area”
• Labor Studies Conference, Sun Yat-sen University, China Mar 2013
“Why Don’t Trade Preferences Reflect Economic Self-Interest?”(with Michael Tomz)
• Behavioral Revolution in International Relations, UCSD Jan 2014
• Behavioral Revolution in International Relations, UCSD Jun 2014
“Anti-Foreign Sentiment and Labor Protests in Non-Democracies”
• International Relations Workshop, Stanford University Jan 2014
• Comparative Politics Workshop, Stanford University April 2014
• American Political Science Association Annual Meetings Sep 2014
Research Experience
Research Assistant Fall 2010
for Professor Phililp Y. Lipscy
Department of Political Science, Stanford University Project Title: Democracy and Financial Crisis
Research Fellow Fall 2014 – Present
for Apple Inc. Academic Advisory Board
Project: Labor Conditions at Supply Chain Factories in China
Honors and Awards
• Post-doctoral Fellowship, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania, 2015-2016
• Pre-doctoral Fellowship, The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, 2013-2014
• Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Stanford Center at Peking University, 2013
• O’Bie Shultz Fellowships in International Studies: Dissertation Research Travel Grant, The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, 2013
• The John and Jackie Lewis Fund to Support Research on Asia, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, 2013
• The Chinese Dissertation Fellowship, The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University 2012-2013
• Travel Grant, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012
• Graduate Research Opportunities Fellowship, Stanford University, 2011
• Travel Grant, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, 2011
• Summer Research Fund, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, 2010
• Summer Research Fund, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, 2009
• Graduate Fellowship for Overseas Students, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, 2008-2015
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant Spring 2010
Introduction to International Relations Professor: Michael Tomz
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Teaching Assistant Winter 2011 Chinese Politics: The Transformation and Era of Reform
Professor: Jean Oi
Teaching Assistant Spring 2011
War and Peace in American Foreign Policy Professor: Kenneth Schultz
Fieldwork Experience
Shandong Province, China Summer 2011
Guangdong Province, China Jan-May 2012, Sep 2012-August 2013
Yangtze River Delta Region, China May-Sep 2012
Other Experience
Volunteer 2013
• A labor NGO in Shenzhen, China
Language Korean (native), English (fluent), Chinese (fluent) References Jean, C. Oi (Chair)
William Haas Professor in Chinese Politics Phone: (650) 723 2843 Department of Political Science E-mail: joi@stanford.edu Stanford University
Michael Tomz
Professor of Political Science Phone: (650) 725 4031 Department of Political Science E-mail: tomz@stanford.edu Stanford University
Lisa Blaydes
Assistant Professor of Political Science Phone: (650) 723 0649 Department of Political Science E-mail: blaydes@stanford.edu Stanford University
Beatriz Magaloni
Associate Professor of Political Science Phone: (650) 330 1995 Department of Political Science E-mail: magaloni@stanford.edu Stanford University
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