Welcome. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University. I am a scholar of electoral systems, distributive politics, and the politics of contemporary Japan. From 2025, I will be an editor at the Journal of Politics.

I have written about the effects of electoral systems on politicians’ policy priorities, ideological positions, and allocations of central government resources. Recently, I have been interested in distributive politics. My research is inspired by substantively-important questions in Japanese politics, and I have created data sets for my own research that are now available for use by others. I use text-as-data, quasi-experiments, and qualitative analysis.

I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University, where I am also a Faculty Associate at the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Prior to NYU, I was a Research Fellow at Australian National University. My undergraduate education took place in my native New Zealand. I have studied at the University of Tokyo and have lived in Japan for several years.

I am a co-founder and organizer of the Japanese Politics Online Seminar Series (JPOSS). I also organize and host the Frontiers in Empirical Research on East Asia conference at NYU (FEREA).