About Me

I am a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute. I am also a lecturer at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) this fall. From 2022 to 2023, I was an America in the World Consortium Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. I earned my Ph.D. from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where I was also the A.B. Krongard fellow from 2021 to 2022. My research focuses on coercive diplomacy, alliance politics in the Indo-Pacific, and Japanese foreign policy and national security. My dissertation, entitled Autonomy Preserved: A Manual for U.S. Alliance Management in the Shadow of U.S.-China Competition, examines the interactive effects of U.S. alliance management efforts and China’s attempts to weaken U.S. alliances from both historical and contemporary perspectives. In 2022, I was a World Politics and Statecraft Fellow with the Smith Richardson Foundation.

Prior to Princeton, I worked as research associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from 2013 to 2015 and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) from 2015 to 2017. I hold an M.A. in Public Affairs from Princeton University, an M.A. in Asian Studies from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in Law from Keio University. My writing has appeared in The Japan Times, the Foreign Policy, the Asia Unbound, The Diplomat, and the Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs.