The best research happens when diverse groups tackle complex problems. I help create these groups in my own work, in various community-building endeavors, and in my work with external organizations and partners.
Coauthors
I like conducting research with other people, and I've been very lucky to work with many talented, kind scholars across institutions, fields, and countries. I encourage you to check out their websites, read their research, and collaborate with them as well.
- Kenya Amano (Washington)
- Margaret H. Ariotti (Georgia)
- Michael Jay Barber (Brigham Young)
- Quintin H. Beazer (Florida State)
- Megan Biek (Penn State)
- André Blais (Montreal)
- Ray Block (Penn State)
- Bart Bonikowski (NYU)
- Daniel M. Butler (UC, San Diego)
- Amy Catalinac (NYU)
- Luca Caviezel (Dartmouth)
- Rohan Chakravarty (Dartmouth)
- Ke Cheng (Waseda)
- Yipeng Cheng (Waseda)
- Adam Chilton (Chicago)
- Alice Chong (Waseda University)
- Volha Chykina (Richmond)
- Katherine Clayton (Stanford)
- Courtenay Conrad (UC, Merced)
- Kevin Cope (Virginia)
- Mia Costa (Dartmouth)
- Yaoyao Dai (UNC, Charlotte)
- Sirianne Dahlum (Oslo)
- David Darmofal (South Carolina)
- Christian Davenport (Michigan)
- Christina L. Davis (Harvard)
- Steven Denney (Toronto)
- Kostanca Dhima (Texas A&M)
- Nicholas Dietrich (Penn State)
- Melanie Dominguez (New Mexico)
- Julia Draves (Dartmouth)
- Kristine Eck (Uppsala)
- Yuya Endo (Waseda)
- Emma Elsbecker (Dartmouth)
- Hanne Fjelde (Uppsala)
- Timothy Fraser (Northeastern)
- Joshua Freitag (Dartmouth)
- Shinju Fujihira (Harvard)
- S. Michael Gaddis (UCLA)
- Etienne Gagnon (Tokyo)
- Micah Gell-Redman (Georgia)
- Matt Golder (Penn State)
- Sona Golder (Penn State)
- Thomas Gschwend (Mannheim)
- Cameron Guage (Dartmouth)
- Dimitar D. Gueorguiev (Syracuse)
- Pete Hatemi (Penn State)
- Hans J.G. Hassell (FSU)
- Sophia Hatz (Uppsala)
- Jane Hentschel (Dartmouth)
- John B. Holbein (UVA)
- Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth)
- Yue Hou (Penn)
- D. Alex Hughes (UC, Berkeley)
- Trevor Incerti (Yale)
- Indriði Indriðason (UC, Riverside)
- Jinhyuk Jang (Penn State)
- Nishi Jain (Dartmouth)
- Margaret Johnston (Dartmouth)
- Zachary M. Jones (Washington)
- Rieko Kage (Tokyo)
- Taranamoll Kaur (UC, San Diego)
- Holger L. Kern (Florida State)
- Andrew Kerner (Michigan State)
- Jae Yeon Kim (KDI School of Public Policy and Management)
- Ghashia Kiyani (Kansas State)
- Matthias Koenig (Göttingen)
- Erika Kojima (Waseda University)
- Jeong-Woo Koo (Sungkyunkwan)
- A. Nicole Kreisberg (Harvard)
- Natarajan Krishnaswami (UC, Berkeley)
- Jean Lachapelle (Oslo)
- Edvard Nergård Larsen (Oslo)
- Michelangelo Landgrave (UC, Riverside)
- Hoi-ki Leung (Waseda)
- Douglas Lemke (Penn State)
- Fridolin Linder (New York)
- Shao Li (Syracuse)
- Phillip Lipscy (Toronto)
- Sean Long (UC, Riverside)
- Wen Long (Waseda)
- Yonatan Lupu (George Washington)
- Helen Ma (Dartmouth)
- William W. Marx (Dartmouth)
- Ben Matejka (Dartmouth)
- Akitaka Matsuo (Essex)
- Charles T. McClean (Michigan)
- Rose McDermott (Brown)
- Helen V. Milner (Princeton)
- Austin M. Mitchell (Tohoku)
- Sayumi Miyano (Princeton)
- Guillermo Monge (UC, Berkeley)
- Quin Monson (Brigham Young)
- Colin Morsehead (Yale)
- Amanda Murdie (Georgia)
- Kiho Muroga (Kyushu)
- Viet-Hung Nguyen-Cao (Waseda)
- Michael J. Nelson (Penn State)
- Milan Obaidi (Oslo)
- Reilly Olinger (Dartmouth)
- Yoshikuni Ono (Waseda)
- Eliana Ornelas (Dartmouth)
- Steve Pfaff (Washington)
- Matthew Pietryka (Florida State)
- Michael Poyker (Nottingham)
- Kasey Rhee (Dartmouth)
- Diana Rodenberger (UC, Berkeley)
- Frances Rosenbluth (Yale)
- Ana Ross (Penn State)
- Paul Schuler (Arizona)
- Semra Sevi (Montreal)
- David A. Siegel (Duke)
- Elliot Silverberg (Georgetown)
- Daniel M. Smith (Columbia)
- Kevin Smith (Nebraska)
- Diana M Stanescu (Stanford)
- Atsushi Tago (Waseda)
- Seiki Tanaka (Groningen)
- Ayumi Teraoka (Princeton)
- Zhanna Terechshenko (Penn State)
- Andreas Forø Tollefsen (PRIO)
- Michael Tsai (UC, San Diego)
- Kiyoteru Tsutsui (Stanford)
- Michiko Ueda (Waseda)
- Mila Versteeg (UVA)
- Neil Visalvanich (Durham)
- Nils Weidmann (Konstanz)
- Andreas Wimmer (Columbia)
- Hikaru Yamagishi (Yale)
- Charmaine N. Willis (Albany)
- Tore Wig (Oslo)
- Yu Jin Woo (Waseda)
- Nicholas Zhang (Dartmouth)
- Junyao Zhang (Waseda)
- Yuan Zhou (Kobe)
- Katrina Zuluaga (Waseda University)
Community Building
I enjoy building and strengthening scholarly communities related to my research interests. I have organized (or co-organized) 4 conferences, 7 mini-conferences, and over 180 seminars and workshops.
Virtual workshops
I currently work on two community-building efforts. First, I am the founder and organizer of the Asian Politics Online Political Seminar Series (APOSS). The series, motivated by the wave of conference and seminar cancellations in spring 2020, aims to provide political scientists working in, on, or adjacent to Asia a forum where they can receive feedback about their work in progress. Second, I'm a co-founder and co-organizer of the Japanese Politics Online Seminar Series (JPOSS), a virtual forum to present and discuss research-in-progress on questions related to Japanese politics, broadly defined.
My interest in developing research communities goes back several years. From Fall 2015 to Spring 2020, Holger Kern and I organized mini-conferences on the Politics of Authoritarian Regimes to coincide with the annual meetings of the Southern Political Science Association (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019). From Fall 2016 to Spring 2020, Holger and I also organized the Virtual Workshop on Authoritarian Regimes (VWAR), which provided scholars of authoritarian regimes with an opportunity to receive feedback from multiple discussants on their research in progress. We held 43 sessions together over four years.
A survey I continuously conduct of VWAR and APOSS presenters shows that most participants (1) thought that their participation was more useful for their research than presenting at a large conference and (2) rated VWAR/APOSS better than other virtual workshops at which they had presented. 👇
Virtual workshop evaluationsBased on my experiences running these workshops, I put together a spotlight for PS: Political Science & Politics that focuses on how these spaces can be used to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the discipline.
☕ Erdős
My Erdős number is 5.