Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Carolina.
My research interest centers on state repression and political violence, particularly onhow governments maintain control and order through various coercive institutions such as the police, military, courts, and local governments, as well as strategies including direct violence, nonviolent coercion, and infiltration through informants and spies. I am particularly interested in how networks of dissent shape state repression strategies. To that end, I work on developing network methods to enhance my research on repression and political violence in general.
PhD in Political Science, 2019
Duke University
MS in Political Science, 2009
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
BA in Diplomacy, 2007
National Chengchi University, Taiwan
This grad-level course offers an introduction to the theory and practice of quantitative data analysis techniques.
This graduate-level course introduces topics of human rights abuses and transitional justices after state repression of human rights
This graduate-level course introduces more advanced statistical models and the basics of causal inference