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Thomas Pepinsky is a Walter F. LaFeber Professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University, where he has been a faculty member since 2008. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 2007. His academic focus includes comparative politics and political economy, with a special emphasis on Southeast Asia. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Pepinsky's research investigates the interaction between political and economic systems globally and how social categories influence these systems. His current work explores the politics of democratic backsliding in Southeast Asia and Europe, the evolution of ethnicity, and the dynamics of social categories within the Malay world. He has published extensively in top political science journals, contributing to debates within the fields of political behavior, methodology, and comparative politics.
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