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appointments

2022 - present

Associate Professor
       Department of History, Villanova University

2014 - 2022

Assistant Professor
       Department of History, Villanova University

education

2014

PhD, Columbia University
       subfield: International and Global History
       adviser: Adam M. McKeown

2005

BA, Columbia University
       major: History

awards and grants

2019

Short-term Residency Grant
       InterAsia Program
       Social Science Research Council

Visiting scholar
       Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
       Hong Kong University

2016-2017

Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship
       InterAsia Program
       Social Science Research Council

Postdoctoral Fellowship
       Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies

2015-2016

Collaborative Reading-Workshop Grant
       Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies

2015

Faculty Development Grant
       Villanova University

2012-2014

Mellon Interdisciplinary Fellow
       The Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE)
       Columbia University

2011-2012

International Dissertation Research Fellowship
       The Social Science Research Council
       research in India and the UK

Junior Dissertation Fellowship
       The American Institute of Indian Studies

2010-11

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant
       research in China

2008-09

Freeman Fellowship Language Grant
       Blakemore Foundation
       language study at the International Chinese Language Program, Taiwan

2006-2008

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships
       language study for Bengali, Chinese, and Japanese

2004-2005

National Debater of the Year
       Cross-Examination Debate Association (CEDA)

2001-2005

John Jay Scholar
       Columbia College, Columbia University

research languages

Classical and modern Mandarin Chinese
       fluent

Japanese
       intermediate reading and speaking

Bengali, Cantonese, German
       intermediate reading

courses taught

undergraduate level

       Modern China I (1644-1912)
       Modern China II (1912-present)
       Modern East Asia
       Modern Japan
       Commodities and Global Capitalism

masters level

       Theory and Methods in History
       Colloquium on Modern East Asia
       Historiography of Capitalism
       China and 20th C. Global Political Economy