PhD Student
East Asia: China
Bio
I am a third-year PhD student in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. I earned my bachelor's degree from Rice University, where I studied drama and film as a site of state involvement in late imperial and modern China. I am broadly interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century East Asia with specific interests in late-Qing and Republican China. In the past, I have written on the Second World War in East and Southeast Asia, as well as Qing-era governance of performing arts. Right now, I am working on a project focusing on the history of the Republic of China's Ministry of Communications and Transportation's Telecommunications Division.
Publications
With Tessa Delgo. Rice and Revolution: The Great Famine of Vietnam during World War II, 1944-45. San Francisco: Pacific Atrocities Education, 2021.
“Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1894–1948.” Journal of Southern History 87, no. 4 (November 2021): 762-763 (book review).
“Shusenjo and the Humanity of History.” positionspolitics: paideia 1 (Spring 2021). https://positionspolitics.org/shusenjo-and-the-humanity-of-history/.
Honors and Fellowships
2026 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award
Joseph R. Levenson Award (2026)
Mellon Mays Predoctoral Research Development Grant (2026)
Republic of China East Asian Fellowship (2025)
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (2022-2024)
Elizabeth Lee Moody Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the Humanities and the Arts (2021-2024)
2024 Ira and Patricia Gruber Prize for Best Honors Thesis, Rice University
2024 Best Oral Presentation, Humanities Research and Creative Work Showcase, Rice University
2023 Suzie Smith Vandiver Prize, Rice University
2023 Outstanding Oral Presentation, Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium
2022 O’Brien Medieval and Early Modern Studies Undergraduate Award
Education
Bachelor of Arts in History and Transnational Asian Studies with Honors, Rice University (Summa cum laude) (2024)
