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Welcome! I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. My research interests include International Political Economy, Chinese Politics, and Political Methodology.
My dissertation integrates global production networks into trade politics models, generating novel insights into pervasive political coalitions within and across national borders. Empirically, I leverage firm-to-firm supply chain data and cutting-edge statistical models to examine two prominent cases, the United States and China, especially their intensified competition over global supply chains. An article version of this research received the Best Paper in International Relations Award from the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) and the Best Paper in Political Economy Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA). For a related line of research, I investigate the political foundations of China's rise in global production networks. Specifically, I focus on how Chinese central and local governments leverage multiple policy instruments to bargain with lead firms along global supply chains and to build China into a global production hub. My work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science and The Chinese Journal of International Politics. To analyze various political networks, I am also developing new statistical methods for causal inference with network data. My ongoing project introduces new matching methods that can exploit endogenous networks to balance underlying social confounders. Currently, I am finalizing an R package, matchnet, to facilitate empirical application. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where my research has been covered by this headline in MIT News. I am on the academic job market this year, and please feel free to contact me with any questions! |