PhD Candidate
Late Modern Europe; East Asia: Japan
Research Interests
- Modern Japan
- Modern Germany
- History of Nuclear Energy
- Comparative, Transnational, and Global History
- Futurology and Temporality
Publications & Presentations
“Past Futures of Japanese Atomic Power: Civilization, Temporality, and Takahashi Minoru’s Energy Theory of Value,” Modern Japan History Workshop, University of Tokyo, January 2019
“The Present Past of Japanese Atomic Power: Backwardness and its Historical Context,” Governing the Nuclear Order Graduate Student Workshop, Paris Descartes University, Paris, June 2018
“Splitting the Atom, Fusing the Nation: Japan and West Germany in the Atomic Age,” Der Kreis: Working Group for German History and Culture, University of California Berkeley, May 2018
“The Present Pasts and Past Futures of Japanese Atomic Power,” 26th Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, February 2017
“Nihon ni okeru genshiryoku kaihatsu no rekishiteki mondai” [Historical Problems in the Development of Nuclear Power in Japan], Nuclear Safety Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tōkai-mura, Japan, August 2016
Awards & Fellowships
SSRC Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship Program, 2019
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Graduate Student Fellowship (Japan), 2018-2019
Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Doctoral Fellowship, 2018-2019 (declined)
FLAS Academic Year Fellowship (Chinese), 2017-2018
Berkeley-Cologne Pre-Dissertation Research Grant, Summer 2017
UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Student Fellowship, Summer 2017
FLAS Academic Year Fellowship (German), 2016-2017
UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Grant, Summer 2016
FLAS Academic Year Fellowship (Japanese), 2015-2016
Phi Beta Kappa Honors, March 2010
