PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2025. “Repression, Interests and Outgroup Attitudes: A survey experiment in post-coup Myanmar.” Comparative Political Studies (with Isabel Chew)
2024. “Can Encounters with the State Improve Minority-State Relations? Evidence from Myanmar.” Comparative Political Studies
2022. “Islands Apart: Explaining the Chinese Experience in the Philippines.” Frontiers in Political Science (with Ethan Masucol and Amy H. Liu)
2020. “Ethnic Parties in New Democracies: The Case of Myanmar 2015.” Electoral Studies 65(June): 102-131 (with Adam Ziegfeld). [pdf]
Book Chapters
2025. “How Ethnic Rebellions Began (and did not Begin) in Burma,” in The Sage Handbook of Peace and Conict Studies, Maia Carter Hallward, Ji Eun Kim, Cecile Mouly, Timothy Seidel, and Zubairu Wai (editors). Sage Publication.
2024. “Ethnic Parties and Women Candidate Recruitment,” in Putting Women Up: Promoting Gender Equality in Myanmar Politics, Netina Tan and Meredith Weiss (editors). Singapore, ISEAS Press. (with Cassandra Preece)
UNDER REVIEW
“Religious Identity and National Pride.” (with Sam Selsky and Amy H. Liu)
“When do Ethnic Minorities Support Pro-Democracy Mobilization: Evidence from Post-coup Myanmar.” (with Amy H. Liu)
“Three Approaches to Surveying Hard-to-Reach Communities: Evidence from English-Limited Speakers among the Asian Americans.” (with Amy H. Liu, Keith Padraic Chew, Meiying Xu, Seung Wook Ethan Yoo, Tamana Attai, Medea Badashvili, Olgahan Cat, Hiba Faruqi, Nadya Hajj, Nivedita Jhunjhunwala, Maryanne Mendoza-Davé, Ojashwi Pathak, Md. Muhib Rahman, Nhu Troung, Delgerjargal Uvsh)
WORK-IN-PROGRESS
“Does Ethnic Identification Undermine National Identification?”
“Ethnic Favoritism, Conflict Legacy, and Street-level Bureaucracy in Myanmar”
“How Ethnic Rebellion Begins: Theory and Evidence from Myanmar”
POLICY REPORTS
“Four Years After: Surveying Post-Coup Perceptions and Lived Experiences in Myanmar” Knowledge for Democracy Myanmar – Myanmar Digital Research, June 2025 (with Htet Myet Min Htun, Mozart Brang, Myat Thiri Bo, and Naw Awng Jakan)
“Identities and the Politics of Ethnicity in Post-coup Myanmar” International IDEA, July 29, 2024 (with Isabel Chew)
“Youth, Identity, and the Post-Coup Experience in Myanmar“ United States Institute of Peace, March 6, 2023 (with Isabel Chew)
“Deciphering Myanmar’s Ethnic Landscape: A Brief Historical and Ethnic Description of Myanmar’s Administrative Units” International IDEA, November 22, 2022 (with Constant Courtin)
OTHER WRITINGS
“Myanmar: New Data Show Wide Support for Unity Government.” United States Institute of Peace, February 29, 2024 (with Amy H. Liu)
“Protesters and Bystanders: Ethnic Minorities in the Pro-Democracy Revolution.” Tea Circle, March 22, 2021
“Understanding Recent Survey Data on Kachin’s Heterogeneous Attitudes Toward Myanmar.” Tea Circle, July 2, 2020
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