I am an Assistant Professor in the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society at The Ohio State University.

My research and teaching interests are in religious pluralism and toleration, early modern political thought, theories of liberalism and democracy, and ethics and citizenship.

My current book project examines religious pluralism as an alternative framework for managing religious diversity in contrast to liberal accounts of toleration. Focusing on regimes that do not fit neatly into the category of liberal democracy, I draw from the history of political thought and a comparative analysis of case studies to show the various forms that religious pluralism can take and the normative value of pluralism. Beyond the book project, my research explores themes of social cohesion and toleration within modern political thought. My work has been published in The Review of Politics.

Prior to joining OSU, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University. I received my Ph.D. and M.A. in Political Science from Duke University, and B.A. in Political Science from Middlebury College. I worked as a Foreign Service Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore prior to graduate school.

I can be reached at seah.11@osu.edu.