I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. My research focuses on international political economy, with an emphasis on the domestic politics of foreign aid and international development.

My work examines how domestic political interests, institutional constraints, and bureaucratic incentives shape the allocation, implementation, and public evaluation of development resources. I study how political leaders’ issue positions shape, and are shaped by, their interactions with domestic actors whose interests in foreign aid may be mobilized or latent, including organized groups such as development firms and NGOs that seek to influence aid policy through lobbying and advocacy, as well as the general public. A related strand of my research investigates how citizens evaluate foreign aid by weighing a range of often competing motives. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2022.