Summary
I am a DPhil student in International Relations at the Queen’s College, Oxford. My research interests lie in the area of international political economy, and I am broadly interested in the evolving institutional dimensions of the international order. My doctoral research, supported by the Clarendon Scholarship, employs an economic perspective to analyse linguistic arrangements in international institutions: (1) the role of common languages in facilitating joint IGO memberships; (2) bargaining over institutional language rules in IGOs, and (3) the diffusion of English as a diplomatic lingua-franca via membership in anglophone IGOs.
By extension, I have interests in (linguistic) nationalism and public opinion as they relate to geoeconomics and international trade. I teach seminars for first-year International Relations (PO1IRE) and third-year International Political Economy (PO3IPE) at the University of Reading as an Associate Lecturer. Prior to the DPhil, I completed my MPhil in International Relations with distinction at St Peter’s College, Oxford. I also hold degrees in Economics from Peking University and the University of Chicago, and I began my research career as a predoctoral fellow in law and economics at Yale Law School.
