Originally from Palo Alto, California, I hold an A.B. in Public and International Affairs and a Certificate in Chinese Language and Culture from Princeton University, a graduate certificate from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University. Prior to joining the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs in 2020, I spent two years as a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School between 2014-2016 and was associate professor in the political economy of China at Oxford’s School of Global and Area Studies between 2016 -2020. I am a Fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations Public Intellectuals Program and was previously a Wilson China Fellow (2022-2023) and a Visiting Senior Fellow for US-China Subnational Relations at the Truman Center for National Policy (2024). I serve on the editorial boards of Studies in Comparative International Development and Urban Affairs Review.