Through the Abe Fellowship supported by the Social Science Research Council and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, she served as a visiting scholar at the Japan Institute of International Affairs and at the Human Security Program of the University of Tokyo in 2010. She teaches and does research in the areas of human rights, human security, international organizations, and East Asian politics. She has published in various journals including Comparative Politics, International Journal of Human Rights, Asian Affairs, Pacific Affairs, International Politics, and Human Rights Review, among others. She is the author of When the State No Longer Kills: International Human Rights Norms and Abolition of Capital Punishment (SUNY Press, 2007). More bio