Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor of Political Science and the School of Policy and International Affairs, University of Maine, 2020-
Assistant Professor of Political Science and the School of Policy and International Affairs, University of Maine, 2014-2020
Adjunct Professor of Political Science, New College of Florida, 2012-2013
Visiting Research Fellow, University of Tokyo Institute of Social Science, 2010-2011
Fulbright Fellow, 2003-2004, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 2014
Dissertation: China’s Political Rise and Japan’s Economic Risk: Multinational Corporations and Political Uncertainty
Committee: Aseema Sinha (chair), Melanie Manion, Edward Friedman, Mark Copelovitch, Gregory Noble, Jon Pevehouse
B.A. Political Science, New College of Florida, 2003
Thesis: Japanese State and Labor in an Era of Neoliberal Reform: The Privatization of the Japanese National Railways
BOOK MANUSCRIPT
Risk Management Strategies of Japanese Companies in China: Political Crisis and Multinational Firms Routledge, 2019
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“The Geoeconomics of Critical Rare Earth Minerals”. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Forthcoming September 2021
“Trade Wars at the Intersection of Memory and Industrial Policy in Japan and South Korea.” In Handbook of Trade Wars. Edward Elgar. Forthcoming.
“The North Korean conflict and the geostrategic equilibrium in Northeast Asia”. In The Future of the Asia-Pacific in the New World Order. Salamanca Spain: European Institute of International Studies. 2021.
“Boycotting Japan: Explaining Divergence in Chinese and South Korean Economic Back- lash” (with Jiwon Nam), forthcoming Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs December 2019.
“Politics, Markets and Rare Commodities: International Responses to Chinese Rare Earth Policy”, Japanese Journal of Political Science 20.1 (2019): 2-20.
“Transforming Geopolitical Risk: Public Diplomacy of Multinational Firms for Foreign Audiences.” The Chinese Journal of International Politics 10.1 (2017): 95-129.