Her main research interests are in public policy and political economy of East and Southeast Asia. Her research work is available through journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of East Asian Studies, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Social Science Quarterly, and Korea Observer, as well as chapter contributions in edited volumes. She is editor of Annual Editions: Comparative Politics for McGraw-Hill and on the editorial board of the journal, Korea Observer. Prior to joining the Crawford School, she was an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Kansas, with research affiliations at the Center for East Asian Studies and the Institute of Political and Social Research.