Biography

My research explores the interplay between domestic and international politics, seeking to understand, first, when and why foreign affairs becomes salient in the national dialogue, and, second, the ways in which the political climate at home affects state behavior on the international stage. With a substantive focus on East Asia, my dissertation examines first, when and where states strategically pursue aggressive foreign policy for domestic ends, leveraging interstate rivalry to amplify perceptions of foreign threat and rile anti-foreign nationalism, and second, how citizens respond in ways that affect larger political landscapes both home and abroad.

Additionally, I am also interested in political methodology and in separate projects explore applications of LLMs in political research, reducing user-specification sensitivity in survey weighting and causal inference approaches to observational data broadly speaking.

Education

BA Columbia University (Physics and Political Science)

Research Interests

International Relations; Comparative Politics

Graduate Advisors

Chad Hazlett; Eric Min; Art Stein; Jeff Lewis