Teaching

Teaching Interests

Comparative politics; autocratic politics; democratization; democratic backsliding
Methods for political research; quantitative analysis; game theory
Politics of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; politics of East Asia and Southeast Asia

Course Instructor
Pennsylvania State University
PLSC 414: Dictators and Their Demise (synchronous online), Summer 2021 (syllabus)

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Guest Lecturer
Pennsylvania State University

“Games of Incomplete Information” in PLSC 410: Strategy and Politics, Fall 2021, December 1
“Tipping Models” in PLSC 410: Strategy and Politics, Fall 2021, November 29
“Authoritarianism” in PLSC 3: Comparing Politics around the Globe, Spring 2021, March 25 (synchronous online)
“Regimes and Society” in PLSC 3: Comparing Politics around the Globe, Spring 2021, February 21 (synchronous online)
“Political Globalization” in GLIS 101: Globalization, Spring 2020, February 18
“Autocracies: Survival and Succession” in AFR 192: Modern African History, Spring 2018, April 3

Teaching Assistant
Pennsylvania State University