I am the Slayton Assistant Professor of East Asian Politics in the Department of Politics and Philosophy at the University of Idaho. I study domestic politics of international relations, with China as a special empirical focus. Beyond the China case, my research seeks to understand the role of leaders and domestic institutions in shaping foreign policies and international security. My co-authored book, Zero Tolerance: Repression and Political Violence on China’s New Silk Road (Cambridge University Press, 2022), examines how competing priorities at home and abroad shape China’s domestic and foreign policies toward political violence. My other works have been published or forthcoming in British Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, and Journal of Politics.
Prior to UI, I was an America in the World Consortium (AWC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. I was also a Predoctoral Visiting Scholar in the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies (ISCS) at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, and a Research Fellow affiliated with the National Security Policy Center (NSPC) of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at UVa. I received Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs from the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.