I am an interdisciplinary scholar studying historical international relations, inter-polity order, and international organizations and global governance. My research focuses on the dynamics and outcomes of interactions between distinct inter-polity orders, international practices, and the implications of institutional overlap.

My book project analyzes how distinct sets of practices of organizing inter-polity relations in East Asia and Europe shaped encounters between China and European polities during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I am working on two stand-alone manuscripts that deal with different aspects of the book project. The first, “Systems Encounter: Sino-Russian Relations, 1618-1689”, focuses uses the case of the onset of relations between Russia and China to illustrate a novel argument about how encounters contribute to the (re)constitution of distinct inter-polity order. The second article manuscript, “‘An affair of State’: Diplomacy in the Constitution of East Asian and European Inter-polity Orders”, deals with encounters as sites of inquiry into questions about the nature and boundaries of inter-polity orders. Other works in progress focus on the conditions under which institutional overlap in contemporary global governance produces new rules and norms.