Current Position

Aug. 2023— : Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, University of Zurich, Switzerland

• Within the ambit of the Swiss SNSF project “Rice Knowledge and Practices between Pacific Asia and West Africa”; Supervisors: Yi-Tang Lin, Martin Dusinberre. Expected completion July 2027.

• Dissertation title: “A Confucian Science: Agricultural Development, Colonial Borderlands, and the Ideology of Archaism in Modern Japan."

• Aug. 2025 - May 2026: Visiting Scholar, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Education and Affiliations

Sep. 2021 - Sep. 2023: MA in International Relations, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Japan

Apr. 2020 - Sep. 2021: Research Student in Cultural Studies, School of Humanities, Nagoya University, Japan

Sep. 2019 - Dec. 2019: Student, International Chinese Language Program (ICLP), National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Sep. 2015 - May 2019: BA with High Honors in History and French, Swarthmore College, USA

For publication record, see Publications