​I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Bates College.  My research and teaching center on Chinese politics and the international relations of Asia.  Current research areas include the political economy of global integration, security dimensions of economic interdependence, and politics of national identity.  In 2015 I was a Visiting Scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Xiamen University, and Liaoning University in China, where I also taught courses in international relations.  I received a Ph.D. in political science and M.A. in international affairs from The George Washington University, M.A. in international studies from Yonsei University, and B.A. in economics from Brown University.

​Recent Publications

"China’s Major-Powers Discourse in the Xi Jinping Era: Tragedy of Great-Power Politics Revisited?” Asian Perspective 40-3 (2016): 493-522. ​​

​"The Impact of Chinese National Identity on Sino-South Korean Relations," in ​Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies 2017​, ed. Gilbert Rozman (Washington: Korea Economic Institute, 2017), 98-111.

"Moon's Olympic Diplomacy," Comparative Connections 20-1 (May 2018): 85-96.
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​​​Current Research

​​​​1. Domestic-International Linkages on China's Periphery: The Foreign Economic Liberalization of China's Border Regions (2000-2015).  ​Ph.D. Dissertation, The George Washington University, December 2016.  Abstract 

​​2. "Between Traditional Ally and Strategic Partner: China’s Economic and Security Interdependence with the Two Koreas since 1992."  Presented at Xiamen University School of International Relations, December 2015.  Review in Chinese ​