Background and Education

In addition to serving as resident professor at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, is a professor of politics at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., teaching international relations and East Asian affairs with a focus on Japanese politics and foreign policy; was awarded a Japan Foundation dissertation fellowship and an Abe research fellowship; served as a U.S. State Department-sponsored touring speaker in South Korea and China; was a visiting scholar at the Japan Institute of International Affairs, the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies and at the University of Tsukuba in Japan; Ph.D., political science, University of California, Berkeley