Dr. Phoebe W. Moon
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Dr. Phoebe W. Moon joined Mercer University in 2022 as an assistant professor of political science. She previously taught at Chapmen University and University of California Irvine as an adjunct professor and served as a Herb York Dissertation Fellow at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. She earned her Ph.D. in political science at the University of California Irvine, and her doctoral dissertation uses a psychological framework to study the relationship between global value chains and trade war onset. Her research mainly focuses on international political economy, interstate conflict, East Asia politics, gender, and political psychology.
Education
- Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Irvine
- M.A., Political Science, University of California, Irvine
- M.A., Political Science and International Relations, Korea University (Seoul, Republic of Korea)
- B.A., Political Science and International Relations, Korea University (Seoul, Republic of Korea)
- B.A., French Language and Literature, Korea University (Seoul, Republic of Korea)
Specialty
International political economy, political psychology, East Asian politics, gender, and security studies.
Professional Interests
Trade war and economic coercion, global value chains, East Asian interstate relations, prospect theory in international relations, national leaders’ military experience and foreign policy decision-making, and gender and political psychology.
Contact Dr. Phoebe W. Moon
(478) 301-2899
moon_p@mercer.edu
Office: Langdale Hall, Room 216