I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University. I completed my PhD in Political Science (with a focus on Political Economy) at Duke University. I received a MSc Economics degree from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Pompeu Fabra) and a BS Economics degree from the University of the Philippines-Diliman. 

 

My main research interest centers on the Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia. I have a primary substantive interest in political history/historical political economy, colonialism and nationalism, and a secondary interest in the political economy of development My work is published or forthcoming in outlets such as The Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, The Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of East Asian Studies.

 

I teach an upper-level undergraduate class on the Political Economy of Development and a required undergraduate class for social science students called Southeast Asia: Past and Present. 

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