Identity and Inclusion in the Global South (last offered Spring 2025)
Contemporary Southeast Asia (last offered Spring 2025)
Statemaking in the Global South (last offered Fall 2025)
Senior seminar: Whither National Identity (last offered Fall 2025)
Comparative Politics and Government (last offered Spring 2023)
Senior capstones: Global Affairs (last offered Fall 2020)
International Development (last offered Spring 2021)
Comparative Social Inquiry (last offered Fall 2018) ^ team-taught, common curriculum class for all first-years
International Political Economy (last offered Spring 2016)
East Asian Politics (last offered Fall 2014)
My teaching statement, syllabi, and all teaching evaluations are available upon request
I'm happy to supervise senior theses and PhD dissertations on questions related to ethnic politics, elections in new democracies, political economy, gender, and political violence. Interested students should send me a proposal that clearly outlines the puzzle, possible answers given what we already know from the literature, and a tentative research design. I may also request a writing sample and/or a list of classes taken on research methods and political science. The final decision will depend on the quality of your proposal and my availability given the teaching/capstone supervision needs across the college.
Some students who wrote their theses under my supervision won prizes in their respective majors, presented their papers at the MPSA conference, and attained placements in prestigious Masters and PhD programs.
More recently, I have served on the PhD dissertation committees of Jung Hoon Park (Political Science) and Jessica Yeo (Comparative Asian Studies) at National University of Singapore, and Katherine Trubee (Political Science) at the University of Tennessee.
I will only write letters for students about whom I can be strongly and honestly supportive. At minimum, this usually requires students taking at least one of my classes and performing well. If you would like me to write a letter for you, please note that I need THREE WEEKS of advance notice. Please supply your CV, instructions on how to send each letter (i.e., where to upload the letter, mailing addresses if a hard copy letter is required), and deadlines. It would be particularly helpful if in your email you also include a list of information (i.e., what you wrote in your paper for my class/under my supervision, grades and awards earned, etc), as well as any written material you are submitting for this application. The more detail you put in your email, the more I am able to write a good letter.
Don't hesitate to send me a reminder by email shortly before the deadline.