Jang, Hye Ryeon (Helen)

Dr. Hye Ryeon Jang is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Morehouse College. She received a Ph.D. degree in political science at the University of Florida. Her primary research interests are international security, energy politics, and maritime conflict. She is regionally interested in China and East Asia and her dissertation focuses on China’s energy mercantilism, its asymmetric trade dependence with Southeast Asian neighboring countries, and their combined effects on the escalation of China’s militarized actions in its maritime disputes. Her dissertation contributes to understanding China’s selective escalation in its maritime disputes—Why has China escalated maritime disputes in the South China Sea but not in the East China Sea or Yellow Sea—with an original dataset and methodological skills.

Dr. Jang also focuses on political methodology— multi-level analysis, Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis, spatial network analysis, remote sensing, survival analysis, maximum likelihood estimation, text analysis, and mixed methods. She has conducted fieldwork in Beijing and Shanghai, China, and Washington, D.C.