Jiyeoun Song

Assistant Professor
School of International and Area Studies and Political Science
Hester Hall, Room 123
Phone: 325-5164
jiyeoun.song-1@ou.edu

Jiyeoun Song is assistant professor in the School of International and Area Studies and the Department of Political Science. She studies comparative political economy, focusing on labor market, social welfare policies, and institutional changes in capitalism. In particular, her research examines the politics of labor market reform and the varieties of capitalism in East Asia, with an empirical focus on Japan and South Korea. Before joining the School of International and Area Studies and the Department of Political Science, she served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in Government at Harvard University in 2008.