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); Mandarin and Classical Chinese; French; German; reading knowledge of Italian.

For my publication record, see the Publications page.