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    Assistant Professor of Government
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    Office: HAR-226
    Office Hours: Spring 2013: Monday and Wednesdays from 1-3pm and by appointment.
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    Education

    • Ph.D. 2010, University of California, Los Angeles (Comparative Politics).
    • B.A. 1997, University of California, Los Angeles. Magna Cum Laude.
    • Dissertation (July 2010): "Restructuring Government: Party System Breakdown and Decentralization in Japan."
      http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/

    Research Interests

    Northeast Asia, political institutions, central-local relations, and Japan's regional relations and regional economic integration.

    Advanced Japanese and native Korean speaker.

    Forthcoming publications and works under review are listed in a separate section below.

    New projects/working papers (interested in doing projects on the region since my arrival at F and M; these are projects I am developing for conference presentations and submission to journals in 2013):

    • "Cities, Citizens, and Japan's Regional Integration" (paper to be presented at the International Studies Association meeting in San Francisco, CA, April 3-6, 2013).
    • "Local Actors and Regional Economic Integration" (paper to be presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Hollywood, CA, March 28-30, 2013).
    • "The Return of the Council for Economic and Fiscal Policymaking (CEFP) in Japan: Executive Agenda Setting."

    Grants & Awards

    http://mansfieldfdn.org/program/dialogues/u-s-japan-network-for-the-future/

    • 2012-2014, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, US-Japan Network for the Future Fellow, Cohort II.
    • Spring 2012: Grant from Franklin and Marshall College to develop an interdisciplinary Foundations Seminar, "Imagining Asia" during the summer of 2012. The class will be offered in the spring of 2013.
    • Spring 2011: Hackman Fellowship with student Abigail Heller for summer research/research collaboration.

    At UCLA:

    • Social Science Research Council dissertation workshop fellowship
    • Aratani dissertation year fellowship (for field work and writing).
    • Title VI, National Foreign Language Award (FLAS), funded 4 consecutive years of graduate school (for advanced Japanese language study).
    • Sasakawa summer award for intensive language study at International Christian University, Mitaka, Japan.
    • Nominated for a campus-wide distinguished teaching assistant award.

    Publications

    Under Review/Forthcoming:

    • Forthcoming, May 2013: "Decentralization and the Democratic Party of Japan." Book chapter for an edited volume on the Democratic Party of Japan. To be published by the Brookings Institution in conjunction with the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University. http://aparc.stanford.edu/publications/
    • Under Review: "Komeito in Coalition" with Axel Klein for an edited volume on Religion and Politics in Japan. Steven Reed, Axel Klein, George Ehrhardt, and Levi McLaughlin editors (under review at University of California Press).
    • "Empowering the Executive: Koizumi and the Council for Economic and Fiscal Policy" (paper to be presented at an international conference in November, 2012 and published in an edited volume by Lynne Rienner's Tower Center Series in 2013).

    Publications:

    • Book review for the Journal of Asian Studies (2012).
    • Book review for the Journal of Pacific Affairs (2011).

    Professional Service:

    Reviewed articles for the "Journal of Politics", "Democratization", and "The Journal of East Asian Studies."

    Presentations

    Since my arrival at Franklin and Marshall College:

    • "Cities, Citizens, and Japan's Regional Relations with South Korea and Russia" Paper to be presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA, April 3-6, 2013.
    • "Local Actors and Regional Economic Integration" Paper to be presented at the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 28-30, 2013 in Hollywood, CA.
    • Invited to present at Southern Methodist University in Houston, Texas for an international conference  on Japanese Politics and Economic Reforms During the Koizumi Years, November 7-8, 2012.
    • Discussant for a panel on Japanese politics at Columbia University, April 28, 2011. (Discussed a book project on redistributive politics and the Japanese case).
    • Paper presentation at the Annual Association for Asian Studies Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 31-April 3, 2011.
    • February 4-5, 2011, "Political Change in Japan II: One Step Forward, One Step Back," Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University.
    • November 19-20, 2010 Deutsche Institute for Japan Studies, conference for an edited volume on Religion and Politics in Japan (LDP-Komeito coalition), Tokyo, Japan.
    • "The Politics of Mercy: the Costs of Coalition for the Soka-Gakkai and Komeito" (panel on the Komeito) for the British Association for Japanese Studies, September 9-10, 2010, Study for Oriental and African Studies, London.

    At UCLA:

    • Deutsche Institute Japan, November 18-19, 2009, Tokyo, Japan (symposium for book project)
    • UCLA Conference on Japan's Political Economy, September 11-12, 2009 (panel)
    • Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL 2009 (panel)
    • American Political Science Association, Boston, MA 2008 (panel)
    • American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA 2006 (panel).
    • Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago 2006 (2 panels).
    • American Political Science Association, Boston, 2002 (panel).

    Student Collaborations

    • Chair for four independent/honors projects for 2012-13: 1) gender and the law/politics, 2) international law and Africa, 3) Chinese nationalism, and 4) Government, business, and the internet.
    • Faculty Advisor on a Faculty-Student collaboration, Hackman Fellows research project on the British coalition, Summer 2011.
    • Faculty Advisor for an independent study on US businesses in China; Spring 2011.
    • Faculty Advisor for an independent study on Turkish politics, Fall 2011.
    • Chair for an honors thesis on the institutionalization of ASEAN. Student presented his research at an international conference on ASEAN and currently works for the ASEAN in Washington, DC. and has published in The Diplomat.
    • Served on two honors defense committees in the spring of 2011 and 2012.
    • Overseeing two internships in the summer of 2012.


     

    Course Information

    *Teaching GOV 130, International Politics in Summer Session II, July-August 2013.


    1 course in the fall (2 sections); 2 in the spring (2 sections of 1 class plus 1 section of a second class)

    GOV 472, Senior Seminar on Post-War Japanese Politics and Society (Spring 2013)

    GOV 130, International Politics (2 sections, Fall 2012)

    GOV 120, Comparative Politics (2 sections, Fall 2010 and 2011)

    GOV 272, Gender and Politics from a Global Perspective (Spring 2011 and 2012)

    GOV 324, Asian Politics (2 sections, Spring 2011 and 2012)

    GOV 120, Comparative Politics, Summer Session II