Scholarship and Biography

Interests include East Asian world order, maritime East Asia, Eurasian comparative history, Ming-Qing transition, overseas Chinese, Chinese nationalism and identity, and religious circulation and transmission in early modern Asia

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Honors

Fulbright (turned down)
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 2004
Modern Chinese History Fellowship
Li Ka Shing Foundation (China, Hong Kong), 2008
Taiwan Center for Chinese Studies Grant
Taiwan Central Library, 2009
Theodore and Jane Norman Award for Faculty Research
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2011
Schiff Fellowship for Faculty-Undergraduate Research Collaboration
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2011-2012
Kermitt H. Perlmutter Fellow for Excellence in Research and Teaching
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2013
Michael L. Walzer '56 Award for Teaching
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2014
Junior Scholar Grant
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, 2014-2015
ACLS-Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship
American Council of Learned Societies (United States, New York) - ACLS, 2014-2015
Brandeis Teaching Innovation Grant for History 10A
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2015
ACLS Collaborative Grant
American Council of Learned Societies (United States, New York) - ACLS, 2019-2020
General Research Fund
Research Grants Council, HKSAR, 2025

Organizational Affiliations

Visiting Associate Professor of History, Department of History, Brandeis University

Education

University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
M.A.
University of Georgia
B.A.
University of Georgia
B.B.A.