PhD Candidate
East Asia: China
I study the diplomatic and political history of Eastern Eurasia and Southeast Asia between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. I examine the impact of the Mongol conquests on how political actors from China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Burma, and beyond understood the interstate order of the day. My project will seek to highlight the emergence of new diplomatic norms in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, as well as how these norms came to be challenged and re-negotiated in the wake of the collapse of the Mongol Empire in East Asia. By drawing on archival materials in Classical Chinese, Mongolian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Burmese, I plan to trace a pre-modern history of Asian diplomacy, identifying the Mongol conquests as a transitional moment in the emergence of a new age of political thought in Asia.
Research Interests
- Diplomatic History
- Institutional History
- Intellectual History
- Global History
- Early Modern
Recent Awards and Fellowships
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship – 2023-24
- Institute for International Studies (IIS) Simpson Research Grant – 2023
- Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) Graduate Fellowship – 2023
- Geiss-Hsu Foundation Society for Ming Studies Grant – 2023
- Dr. C.F. Koo and Cecilia Koo Chair Fellowship in East Asian Studies – 2022
- Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) Jeffrey Barlow Graduate Student Prize in Chinese Studies – 2022
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Award: Korean – 2022
- Berkeley History Department Graduate Seminar Paper Prize for paper “The Qi Regime and the Interstate System in Twelfth Century China, 1127-1138” – 2022
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Award: Burmese – 2021
- Berkeley History Department Graduate Seminar Paper Prize for paper “The Making of an Imperial Resource: a Pre-history of the Canton System (1683–1757)” – 2021
- Beinecke Scholar – 2018-23