Esol Cho

I joined the Department of International Studies in March 2023. Before obtaining my Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Binghamton in December 2022, I worked as a research officer for a policy advocacy NGO in the field of international development in South Korea from 2012 to 2014. My research focuses on international political economy and the domestic politics of foreign aid. My work is published or forthcoming in Review of International Political Economy, International Political Science Review, Foreign Policy Analysis, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Korean Public Administration Review.

Office hours: Mondays, 10am-12pm, and by appointment (Esol.Cho@xjtlu.edu.cn).

Domestic Politics of Foreign Aid

International Political Economy

Quantitative Research Methods

Computational Social Sciences

Assistant Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2023-present

Program Director of MA International Business and Global Affairs, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2025-present

Global Engagement Officer for School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 2024-2025

Instructor of Record, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2020-2022

Teaching Assistant, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2017-2022

Data Analytics Assistant, Undergraduate Admissions Center, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2022

Research Assistant, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2018

Teaching Assistant, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, 2015-2016

Research Officer, ODA Watch, Seoul, South Korea, 2012-2014

INS307: Political Economy of Foreign Aid

INS412: Global Political Economy

INS414: Research Methods for International Business

INS408: Research Methods for Global Public Policy and International Relations

HSS101: Artificial Intelligence for Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Methods Statistics, II

Computational Text Analysis with Python

Analyzing Politics Using R

Poverty, Aid, and Development