I am a Prize Fellow in Social Sciences and Princeton Politics Ph.D. candidate on the 2025-2026 job market specializing in race, religion, and international relations. My research examines how racial and religious identities fundamentally alter public support for countries in conflict, revealing critical mechanisms through which identity-based biases shape foreign policy preferences and international solidarity.
I currently have three articles under revise and resubmit at International Organization and International Studies Quarterly. The first, invited for R&R at IO, examines public support for military intervention and shows that while democratic institutions foster solidarity, this effect is significantly shaped by racial and religious identities of the parties in conflict. The second, invited for R&R at ISQ and recipient of the Best Paper in Foreign Policy Award from the American Political Science Association, offers a strategic account of U.S. and Chinese vaccine diplomacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The third, also under R&R at ISQ, investigates the drivers of American sympathies toward Israelis and Palestinians in the aftermath of the October 7th attack. Drafts and other working papers are available on my Research page.
My research has received generous support from the Honjo Foundation, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Data-Driven Social Science Initiative (DDSS), the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice among others.
I am deeply committed to active and engaged learning. I was honored with the prestigious George Kateb Teaching Award from Princeton Politics, and the Exemplar Mentor Award from Princeton University in 2024. I have organized pedagogy workshops for fellow graduate students and have been nominated twice for university-wide teaching awards.
I graduated summa cum laude with highest honors in political science from UC Berkeley, and am a proud alumnus of the Japan Exchange Teaching (JET) Program.