I am an associate professor of political science at the Ohio State University. My current research focuses on information flow and public opinion dynamics in authoritarian states, including propaganda, misinformation, the relationship between global information and domestic opinion, and political trust, especially in the context of China. I have also studied economic reform, social transition, media freedom, and democratic electoral competition. My research has appeared or is forthcoming in American Political Science Review (x2), British Journal of Political Science (x2), Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science Research and Methods, and Nature Human Behaviour, among other journals. I teach courses on the politics of information, authoritarian politics, game theory, Chinese politics, and comparative institutions. Previously, I taught at the University of California, Merced, and was a Campbell National Fellow and the Susan Louise Dyer Peace Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
