About
Tyler is currently a PhD student in Political Science and Scientific Computing at the University of Michigan. He is also a graduate fellow at International Institute, affiliated with Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Emerging Democracies, and Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, He studies democratization, specifically historical and societal foundations of political parties and party systems in emerging democracies, with area foci on East and Southeast Asia. Trained as a demographer, he is particularly interested in how changing population dynamics shape political competition landscapes. He also seeks to adopt a mixed method approach to study long-term political development. Learning Japanese, he is a Mandarin, Malay, and Indonesian speaker.