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    Assistant Professor of Government
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    Office: HAR-226
    Office Hours: Spring 2012: Tuesdays 2-4:30 and Wednesdays: 4:30-5:30
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    Education

    Ph.D. 2010, University of California, Los Angeles.

    B.A. 1997, University of California, Los Angeles. Magna Cum Laude.

    Research Interests

    Political institutions, local governance, and regional economic integration in Asia.

    (Advanced Japanese and native Korean speaker)

    Working Papers:

    "The Politics of Mercy: the Komeito's Policy Impact"  (Book chapter with Masahiko Asano)

    "Local Politics and Finances Under the Democratic Party of Japan Government" (article prepared for Stanford workshop on the Democratic Party of Japan)

    New projects/working papers for 2012-13 (interested in doing projects on the region since my arrival at F and M):

    "Local Actors and Japan's Regional Integration" (working paper)

    "Gender and Poverty in Contemporary South Korea and Japan" (working paper)

    Grants & Awards

    mansfieldfdn.org/blog/announcing-the-second-cohort-of-network-for-the-future-participants/

    2012-2014 Mansfield Foundation's US-Japan Network for the Future Fellow, Cohort II.


    Spring 2012: Grant from Franklin and Marshall College to develop an interdisciplinary Foundations Seminar during the summer of 2012. Class will be offered in the spring of 2013.

    Spring 2011: Hackman fellowship with student Abigail Heller for summer research.



     

    Publications

    Papers/Book Chapters UNDER REVIEW:

    "Local Governance and Finances Under the Democratic Party of Japan Government" (an article developed at a workshop for the APARC/Stanford University. To be published by APARC in an edited volume in 2013).

    "The Policy Costs and Benefits of the LDP-Komeito Coalition" with Masahiko Asano for an edited volume on Religion and Politics in Japan. Steven Reed, Axel Klein, and George Ehrhardt, editors.
     

    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

    Invited to give a talk 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).

    March 31-April 3, 2011, Panel on Religion and Politics for the Annual Association for Asian Studies Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.

    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.


    Previous years:

    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

    Independent/Honors project on gender and politics, 2012-13.

    Project with Hackman Scholar. British coalition research project.

    Independent studies on Chinese politics (US businesses in China; Spring 2011).

    Independent studies on Turkish politics (domestic politics and tensions in Turkey-Israel relations; Fall 2011).

    Honors thesis on the institutionalization of ASEAN. Student was the only undergrad to present his research at an international conference on ASEAN and currently works for the ASEAN in Washington, DC.


    Course Information


    1 course in the fall; 2 in the spring

    GOV 120, Introduction to Comparative Politics (Fall)

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

    GOV 372, Asian Politics (Spring)

    GOV 130, Introduction to World Politics (beginning in Fall 2012)

    Developing a Foundations course: "Nation, State, and Empire: the Creation of Asian Nationalism" explores Chinese, Japanese, and Korean identities and nationalism through multiple disciplines and approaches.

    Developing a Senior Seminar on the contemporary politics of China, Japan, and the two Koreas. Students will produce an article length seminar paper, present their findings on a panel at the end of the semester, and take turns leading discussions. They must have taken GOV 372.