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I am Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. I study international and comparative political economy, specializing in foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational corporations (MNCs), international trade, and development and governance. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of PoliticsInternational Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Comparative Politics, Political Science Research and Methods, Governance, and Research & Politics. My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. I am the recipient of the Bruce Russett Award for the best article published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution in 2022.

I received a dual B.A. degree in International Politics and Economics from Peking University, China, an M.A. degree in East Asian Studies from Yale University, and a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Columbia University. Prior to joining Penn State, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program (in residence at Harvard University). During the 2013-2014 academic year, I was an associate visiting research scholar at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University.