Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. My research examines international security, authoritarian media and public opinion during interstate conflicts, and Chinese foreign policy.
My book, The Art of State Persuasion: China’s Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes (Oxford University Press), investigates how China uses state media as a tool of foreign policy during international conflicts. The book received the International Studies Association (ISA) Asia-Pacific Best Book Award and an Honorable Mention for the ISA International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award. My research has also been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Security Studies, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Contemporary China, and in public outlets including The Diplomat, South China Morning Post, and The Independent.
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I received my Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Virginia in 2018. Before joining Colgate, I was an Assistant Professor at Singapore Management University, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s International Security Center, a Minerva–United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Peace Scholar, a predoctoral fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at George Washington University, and a senior editor at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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My research draws on archival research and interviews in China and Vietnam, computational analysis of Chinese official media, and survey experiments conducted in China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and the United States. I hold a joint M.A. in International Relations and Comparative Politics from George Washington University and the National University of Singapore, and a B.A. in Law from Peking University.
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