Tasnia Symoom received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Kentucky in 2025. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Violence Against Women (CRVAW).

Her research is published in The Social Science Journal (August 2025), and some of her papers are under review in Violence Against Women, Race and Justice, and Review of Economics and Political Science. Symoom is also pursuing multiple book projects on identity, justice, and democracy through an interdisciplinary approach, where Selective Solidarity and Violence Against Women examines how social and political identities shape attitudes toward violence in Bangladesh and the United States, and After the Fall: Psychological Legacies, Institutional Ruins, and Political Struggles in Post-Autocratic States investigates how weak institutions and authoritarian legacies stall democratic recovery after authoritarian collapse. Her co-authored project, Sinophobia and the Liberal Order, is a comparative study of how U.S. and Chinese aid and investment shape the future of the liberal international order.

Her work has been recognized with several competitive fellowships, including the Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellowship at Binghamton University’s Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (2025–26), where she focuses on atrocity prevention and humanitarian–security challenges. Her earlier research was supported by the Ashley T. Judd Distinguished Graduate Fellowship and a Research Fellowship at the Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women (OPSVAW), underscoring her record of externally funded, policy-relevant research.

In the classroom, Symoom draws on interdisciplinary perspectives to teach courses in comparative politics, international relations, macroeconomics, South Asian politics, gender and politics, democracy and human rights, and American government at the University of Kentucky, Eastern Illinois University, and Bluegrass Community and Technical College.