Vita: Tasnia Symoom earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Kentucky in 2025. Her research examines how political, religious, and gender identities shape public attitudes toward violence, justice, and democracy in South Asia and the United States. Her research draws on survey experiments, mixed-methods approaches, and cross-national analysis, with publications in The Social Science Journal and Violence Against Women, and additional work under review at Race and Justice and the Review of Economics and Political Science. She has taught at the University of Kentucky, Eastern Illinois University, and Bluegrass Community and Technical College.

Teaching Interests: Comparative politics, International relations, Gender and politics, Democracy and human rights, South Asian politics, Comparative Political economy

Books in Progress: Selective Solidarity and Violence Against Women (under review at Oxford University Press); After the Fall: Psychological Legacies, Institutional Ruins, and Political Struggles in Post-Autocratic States; Sinophobia and the Liberal Order (co-authored with Horace Bartilow)

Honors and Fellowships: Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellowship, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University (2025–26); Ashley T. Judd Distinguished Graduate Fellowship (2021); Research Fellowship, Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women (2023); Nominee, University of Kentucky Best Teaching Assistant Award (2025); IKEA Netherland Merit-based Scholarship (2011-2015)