Kayeon Roh

Preferred Email kayeon.roh@usc.edu

Kayeon Roh is a PhD candidate in Political Science and International Relations (POIR) at the University of Southern California. Specializing in international relations of historical East Asia, she works on political concepts and theories that constitute international systems, how they evolve and are translated on the inter-regional level. Her dissertation project focuses on ‘emperor,’ ‘empire,’ and related concepts in pre- and early modern East Asia as well as in a wider global context, up to the early twentieth century. She is also interested in qualitative methodology in political science and history of social sciences. Kayeon has earned her bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Chicago.