Hello! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Texas. My primary research focuses on authoritarian nostalgia and related political behavior in post-authoritarian democracies. I further develop research projects in the intersection of domestic and international politics of China’s expansion in Asia. My regional focus is on East Asian and Southeast Asian democracies. I introduce various research methods in answering key research questions, including experiments and text and image analysis. I received my PhD in Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2022 and MA and BA at Korea University. Before joining UNT, I was a Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director of the Data Analytics and Policy Program and a faculty affiliate in the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. My research has appeared in Political Behavior, Democratization, Party Politics, International Studies Quarterly, World Development, and International Journal of Press/Politics, among others.

My research has received support from various sources, including a Faculty Grant Award from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, a Taiwan Fellowship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan, a Doctoral Fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, and multiple institutions at the University of Illinois.

Research interests:

• Authoritarian nostalgia
• Comparative political behavior
• Post-authoritarian democracies
• Political economy in Asia
• Computational research methods