Welcome! I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Korea University.  

I completed my Ph.D in Political Science at Yale University in 2017, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center at University of Notre Dame in 2017-2018. 

My research centers on domestic sources of conflict and peace (with a particular focus on nationalism),  nuclear proliferation, and alliance politics. I use experimental, quantitative, and qualitative methods to identify causal effects and uncover the underlying mechanisms at play. My work has been published in Journal of Peace Research, International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, and Journal of Conflict Resolution. 

I have regional specialization in East Asia. I have conducted several rounds of fieldwork in China, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.

I was a 2018-2019 U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholar,  and I’m a 2023-2024 Yale Nuclear Security Fellow. In 2023-2024, I am also participating in the Beyond Nuclear Deterrence Working Group, an initiative of the MacArthur Foundation and Harvard University’s Project on Managing the Atom. 

I am currently serving as an organizer for the PIPC Online Speaker Series, which was merged with the IREA (International Relations and East Asia) Online Colloquium (2017-2020) that I founded.