Current appointments
Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Zurich, 2023–2027
Dissertation: A Confucian Science: Agricultural Development, Colonial Borderlands, and the Ideology of Archaism in Modern Japan
Visiting Research Fellow, Waseda University, May–September 2026
Previous appointment
Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, August 2025–April 2026
Education
- MA in International Relations, Waseda University, 2023
- Research Student in Cultural Studies, Nagoya University, 2020–2021
- International Chinese Language Program, National Taiwan University, 2019
- BA with High Honors in History and French, Swarthmore College, 2019
Selected fellowships
- SNSF Mobility Grant, 2025
- MEXT Scholarship, 2020–2023
- Haraguchi Memorial Asia Research Fund, Waseda University, 2022
- Lippincott Fellowship, National Taiwan University, 2019
Languages
English; Japanese (modern, early modern, and classical); Chinese (Mandarin, Classical); French; German; reading knowledge of Italian.
For my publication record, see the Publications page.