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Education

Ph.D. in political science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA 2018 - present

  • Subfields: Political Psychology, American Politics, Methods
  • Dissertation: "Inclusion without Cohesion? Threats and Common Ingroup Identity among Asians in the US"
  • Committee: Dr. Leonie Huddy (Chair), Dr. H. Hannah Nam, Dr. John Barry Ryan, Dr. Andrew M. Engelhardt

B.A. in political science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA 2018

  • Honors thesis advisor: Dr. Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz

Research Interests

Political psychology, American politics, Experimental social science, Groups and identities, Race, ethnicity and politics, Intergroup cooperation, Partisanship, Social influence



In Preparation

"What's In It for Us? Tests of Discrimination and Group Interests in Shaping Party Preferences among Asian Americans."

"(Bounded) Political Friendships? Tests of Panethnic Processes for Asians in the US."


Work in Progress

"Roots of Racial and Ethnic Identification among Asians in the US."

"Understanding the Roles of Group Efficacy and Group Interests in Support for AAPI among Asians in the US."


Presentations

2023
  • Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association St. Pete Beach, FL (January)
  • Junior Americanist Workshop Series: Race and Ethnicity Politics Virtual (March)
  • Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Chicago, IL (April)
  • Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Los Angeles, CA (September)

2022

  • Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Chicago, IL (April)
  • Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association Montréal, Québec, Canada (September)

Awards, Fellowships, & Grants

Hayek Fund Expense Support Grant Institute for Humane Studies (2023)

Stony Brook University Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Initiative Grant Stony Brook University (2023)

Rapoport Family Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant Rapoport Family Foundation (2023)

Capitol Scholar Award University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2018)


Teaching experience

POL 344-American Political Ideology and Public Opinion

2021 (Fall)

Instructor on Record


POL 353-Contemporary Race Relations in American Politics

2022 (Fall); 2023 (Spring)

Instructor on Record


POL 368-Social Networks and Politics

2020 (Fall); 2021 (Winter; Spring; Summer); 2022 (Spring; Summer); 2023 (Fall)

Instructor on Record


Peer Review

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties

Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Political Behavior


Professional Memberships

American Political Science Association

Midwest Political Science Association

Southern Political Science Association

International Society of Political Psychology

American Association for Public Opinion Research

Western Political Science Association


Skills

Computational

  • Data analysis: R, Python, Stata, SPSS
  • Writing experiment interface and designing survey: oTree (Python library), Qualtrics
  • Agent-based modeling: Python

Additional training

Summer Institute of Political Psychology (SIPP) Stanford University (2018)


Research and other experience

Research assistant, Department of Political Science, Stony Brook University 2018 - 2020
Supervisor(s): Dr. H. Hannah Nam; Dr. John Barry Ryan; Dr. Julian Wamble

Research assistant, Cline Center for Democracy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2017
Supervisor(s): Dr. Avital Livny

Lab assistant, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2017
Supervisor(s): Dr. Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz

Legal intern, Champaign County Public Defender’s Office 2016
Supervisor(s): Benjamin W. Dyer

Legislative assistant, Assemblywoman Eun-Hee Kwon – National Assembly of the Republic of Korea 2015
Supervisor(s): Yoo-Jung Hong