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My research focuses on politics of China and authoritarian governance, with a particular emphasis on state–society relations, civil society and NGO policy. More broadly, I study authoritarianism in East Asia (China and the Korean peninsular) and international affairs in the Asia-Pacific.

Current on-going research:

• public opinion on foreign policy involvement in external conflicts
• knowledge production in autocracies
• civil society/NGO policy in autocracies
• leadership succession in autocracies

Prior to joining ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ I was a research fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and a pre-doctoral fellow at Fudan University. I hold MA and PhD in Political Science from Stanford University.  

GLGOV: Politics and Governance of Global Challenges

• Quantitative Methods (Spring 2026)
• Academic Writing (Fall 2025)
• China in Global Politics (Spring 2024, Spring 2025)

Please see my  page for a full list of publications.

Peer-reviewed articles (selected)

 Democratization, 2025. (with Thomas Richter, Mariana Llanos, David Kuehn, Martin Acheampong, and Emilia Arellano)

 Journal of East Asian Studies, 2025. (with Jacob Reidhead and Jeongsue Park)

 Australian Journal of International Affairs, 2024, 1-23. (with Sung Eun Kim)

 Journal of Chinese Political Science, 2023, 28, 571–592.

 Chinese Political Science Review, 2022, 9, 36–62.

Media

. The Diplomat, December 2022 (with Richard Turcsanyi).