Research

I am a Ph.D. candidate in political theory. Prior to entering UCLA, I received my BA in international relations from the University of Tokyo, Japan. I am interested in questions of authority and authorship in politics. My dissertation considers acts of re-founding and re-constituting after defeat, by examining postwar Japanese political thought, on the one hand, and the political theories of Rousseau, Arendt, and Derrida, on the other. I am currently serving as an assistant editor for the journal Political Theory.