I received my A.B. in political science at University of California, Berkeley, and Ph.D. in political science at University of California, Irvine.  My research and teaching interests concentrate on American and comparative politics of the Asian Pacific, including Japan, with a substantive focus on public opinion and race, ethnicity and transnationalism.   Two current projects center on changes in public opinion in Japan and mass perceptions of the United States.

I also research and write about the political aspects of world football and analyze performance and match data.

Upon graduating from Irvine, I worked as an opinion research consultant and held appointments at Viet Nam National University under the US Fulbright Program and at Doshisha University in Kyoto.  I spent the 2012-13 academic year at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University.

My work has appeared in The Journal of PoliticsPublic Opinion QuarterlyPerspectives on PoliticsJapanese Journal of Political ScienceSocial Science Japan JournalPSAmerasia Journal, Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts as well as Journal of Sports SciencesSoccer and Society and several edited volumes. I am the co-editor, with Pei-te Lien, of The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans (Temple University Press, 2009) and, with Russell Dalton, a special issue in Asian Journal of Comparative Politics.