Welcome! I’m an assistant professor at the University of Oregon Department of Sociology. I received my Ph.D. in May 2022 from Princeton University’s Sociology Department and was previosly a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP) at New York University.

I study the control and reception of information in authoritarian regimes with a particular focus on China. I conceptualize propaganda as an intervention into the media sphere and develop approaches to measure the existence and amplification of state propaganda in domestic newspapers, global web-based news, and through new digital platforms like generative AI. For my latest working paper on this topic, see here.

I also have completed and ongoing projects in the sociology of perception, history of social thought, and gendered online harassment and social media participation.

Methodologically I use a range of tools, including primary document analysis, interviews, machine learning, survey experiments, and computational text analysis. I hold a BA in East Asian Studies and an MA in Regional Studies: East Asia, both from Harvard University.

You can download my cv here

If you are a University of Oregon student and would like to attend my office hours, please use this link.

Interests

• Computational social science
• Media
• Politics of information control
• Contemporary China
• Sociology of perception