My research centers on the sociology and politics of comparative international education and peace/development studies with a focus in four areas: 1) higher education in conflict-affected contexts; 2) the global governance of education, conflict and peace; 3) the intersections of peace education and global citizenship education; and 4) critical approaches to education (de/postcolonial and postmodern thought, and critical pedagogy).

Specifically, my current funded research examines higher education for peace in the divided and conflict-affected contexts of China/Taiwan, Cyprus, Korea, and Somalia/Somaliland. Previous research explored conflict-sensitive teaching methods in Afghanistan, prefigurative pedagogy in Korea, higher education inside the United Nations, diffractive methodologies, posttruth, transrational perspectives, and decolonizing higher education. I was previously Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Keimyung University (2018-20), and Postdoctoral Research Associate and Joint Director of Studies for Education at Queens' College and Fitzwilliam, University of Cambridge (2016-17).

I am author of seven books and frequently publish in the journals Compare; Discourse; Educational Philosophy & Theory; Globalisation, Societies & Education and Teaching in Higher Education, among others.

​I  serve in several leadership roles with the Comparative and International Education Society, Korean Comparative Education Society, and the Korean Educational Research Association, including as the previous Co-Chair of the Peace Education SIG of CIES and a volunteer for the New Scholars Committee. I am  Editor of Asia Pacific Education Review, Executive Editor of Teaching in Higher Education, and Associate Editor of Journal of International Cooperation in Education. I additionally serve on the Editorial Boards of Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, In Factis Pax: Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice, International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, Journal of Peace Education, Korean Journal of Comparative Education, Latin American Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, and Somaliland Journal of Peace and Development. 

I completed my PhD and postdoc at Cambridge University, and hold graduate degrees from the University of Toronto, Teachers College Columbia University, the United Nations University for Peace, and New York University. I have been a Visiting Scholar at Yale (USA), Tohoku Univeresity (Japan), Seoul National University (Korea), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), National Taiwan University (Taiwan), National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan), and University of Hargeisa (Somaliland).