Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. My research agenda covers international security, authoritarian media and public opinion during interstate conflicts, and Chinese foreign policy. My book, published by Oxford University Press, The Art of State Persuasion: China’s Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Dispute, investigates China’s media statecraft throughout its foreign conflicts. My research has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Security Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, International Studies Quarterly, as well as general publications such as 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 August 2018. I was previously an Assistant Professor at the Singapore Management University, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s International Security Center, a Minerva-United State Institute of Peace (USIP) Peace Scholar, a predoctoral fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies of the George Washington University, and a senior editor at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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My research draws on extensive archival research and interviews in China and Vietnam, computerized text analysis of Chinese official media, and survey experiments in China, Vietnam, the Philippines, and the US. I have a joint M.A. in International Relations and Comparative Politics from George Washington University and National University of Singapore, and a B.A. in Law from Peking University.
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