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 previously 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. See my recent article on these topics in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (with Yin Yuan, Molly Roberts, and Brandon Stewart). Replication data available 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

Interests

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