Hi! I'm Edwina, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. I will be on the market for the 2025-26 academic year. 

My research interests include LGBTQ+ politics, authoritarian politics, and East Asian politics. My dissertation explores the global dynamics of same-sex marriage (SSM) legalization and the political representation of sexual minorities. 

I am honored to be the Dr. Richard Walker Memorial Endowed Fellow for the Walker Institute at the University of South Carolina and a recipient of the Dera D. Parkinson Fellowship from our Graduate School. 

In addition to my academic pursuits, I serve as the chair of the inaugural Political Science Graduate Symposium at USC, scheduled for March 8, 2025. This event aims to promote collaboration and professional development among graduate students across the Southeast region. I am also an active member of the Comparative Political Regimes (CPR) Lab, a research initiative involving scholars from the University of Alabama and USC. The lab's focus is on regime transformation from a comparative perspective.