Tasnia Symoom earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Kentucky in 2025 and is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Violence Against Women. Her research investigates how political, religious, and gender identities shape attitudes toward violence, justice, and democracy in South Asia and beyond.

Her work appears in The Social Science Journal (2025), with additional articles under review at Violence Against Women, Race and Justice, and the Review of Economics and Political Science. She is currently developing three book projects: Selective Solidarity and Violence Against Women, which examines identity-based responses to gendered violence in Bangladesh and the United States; After the Fall: Psychological Legacies, Institutional Ruins, and Political Struggles in Post-Autocratic States, which analyzes democratic recovery after authoritarian collapse; and Sinophobia and the Liberal Order, a co-authored study of how U.S. and Chinese aid and investment shape the global order.

Her scholarship has been supported by competitive fellowships, including the Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellowship at Binghamton University’s Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (2025–26), the Ashley T. Judd Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, and a research fellowship at the Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women.

As an educator, Symoom draws on interdisciplinary approaches to teach courses in comparative politics, international relations, gender and politics, democracy and human rights, South Asian politics, and American government. She has taught at the University of Kentucky, Eastern Illinois University, and Bluegrass Community and Technical College, and was nominated for the University of Kentucky’s Best Teaching Assistant Award in 2025.