My broad research interests include social inequality, cultural sociology, and political sociology, focusing on Japan and South Korea. I employ various qualitative methods and a comparative lens to explore how individuals experience and respond to economic inequality and insecurity. Additionally, I am interested in the rise of right-wing movements and ideologies. 

I earned my Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in 2019. I spent a year at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow and four years at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea, as an assistant and associate professor before joining Manchester.