Welcome to my webpage. I am an Assistant Professor of Politics at Centre College. My broad research agenda concerns emotions and racialization in international politics (jointly and separately).
My book project investigates the racialized underpinnings of the Liberal International Order. Specifically, I argue that the ideology of racialized liberalism has permitted a democratic peace between "western" democracies within the LIO, but (neo)colonialism and a balance of threat without. My book manuscript was honoured at the ISA Northeast Scholar's Circle in 2023. I also have several side projects that study how emotions can explain various outcomes in politics (including: racialization and identity formation; trade and welfare cuts; symbolic violence and humanitarianism). You may read about these research projects here. My article, "The Everyday Emotional Lives of Aid Workers" is published in International Theory; my paper, "The Affective Politics of Pop-Economics: How Racializing Japan Naturalized Protectionism and Welfare Cuts," is the 2021 recipient of the Fred Hartman Prize at ISA-NE; and my methodology note "Tracing Emotions In-and-Out of Equilibrium" is published in the edited volume Parsing the Passions: Methodology and Emotion in International Relations. Prior to coming to Centre, I obtained by PhD in Political Science at the George Washington University, I was a KSI US-Asia Grand Strategy Fellow at the University of Southern California, a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, and a Tan Cheng Lock Scholar at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies - Yusof Ishak Institute, where I also was the associate editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Economies. |