His research interests are in Latin America and Southeast Asia, civil society, and the political economy of development. He is the author of “Revolution ‘from the Middle’: Historical Events, Narrative, and the Making of the Middle Class in the Contemporary Developing World” in Political Power and Social Theory (2010), co-author of “Making Narratives of Revolution: Middle-Class Identity and the Language of Middle Class Identity in the Philippines and South Korea, 1970s-1987” in Critical Asian Studies (2013), and is preparing a book manuscript, Social Origins of Distinction and Democracy: The Civil Sphere and the Middle Class in the Philippines and Latin America.