Sharyn O'Halloran

Sharyn O’Halloran earned her BA in honors economics and political science, and MA and PhD in political science from the University of California at San Diego. After earning her PhD, Sharyn O’Halloran served as a Social Science Research Council fellow in foreign policy studies and a postdoctoral fellow in public policy at Stanford University’s Center for Economic Policy Research. There, her research focused on the impacts and implementation of trade agreements such as NAFTA, and she also provided advice to the Mexican departments of commerce and agriculture on matters related to trade.

From 1993 to 2002, Sharyn O’Halloran was first an assistant, and then an associate professor in the Columbia University Department of Political Science and School of International Affairs, becoming an associate professor in 1997. During this time she also was a postdoctoral fellow in positive political economy at Harvard University. In 1997, she moved back to California to serve as a Robert Eckles Swain Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

She stayed on at Stanford until 2000, first as a visiting professor of public policy and business and then as a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution. In 2002, Professor O’Halloran was named a full professor of political science and international affairs at Columbia University, and between 2003 and 2004 she was a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation. Since 2005, she has served as George Blumenthal Professor of Political Economy and professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

New York, NY, US