Welcome to my site! I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. My research concerns China, social movements, labor, natural resources, and authoritarianism. I am the author of Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness (Cambridge University Press, 2021), which shows how industrial conflict is transforming the Chinese state from below, with complicated results for activists and authorities alike. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in China Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Studies in Comparative International Development, and elsewhere. Previously, I served as a Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow at the University of Southern California’s School of International Relations and a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. I have a PhD from Cornell University’s Department of Government. Before entering academia, I worked in the non-profit world, supporting workers’ rights and improved grassroots governance in China. I am a non-resident Wilson China Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.