My research focuses on histories of the Asia Pacific region as a lever of global change from the 1870s to the present. I have published on the global reach of East Asian transnationalism in campaigns against drug trafficking and human trafficking, East Asian influences on global conflict and cooperation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, trans-Pacific cooperation in higher education and East Asian interactions with international regimes. I continue to be intrigued by the ironies and dynamics of international legitimation at global governance institutions like the League of Nations and the United Nations. My forthcoming monograph is under contract with Harvard University Press and offers a social, political and intellectual history of Sino-American coordination from the age of empire to the Cold War and its imprint on global politics.
2007 BA, History, University of Konstanz
2007-08 Exchange Scholar, Department of History, Yale University
2010 MA, History (international), Harvard University
2010-12 Graduate Student Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
2011-12 John Clive Fellow, Harvard University
2011-12 Research Fellow, Canada Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
2012-13 Dissertation Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
2013 SIAS Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
2014 PhD, History (international), Harvard University
2014 SIAS Fellow, National Humanities Center, North Carolina
2013-15 Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Studies, Yale University
2015-16 Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
2015 Postdoctoral Visiting Research Research Fellow, Rothermere American Institute & guest, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
2016-17 Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden
2016-17. Transregional Research Junior Scholar, InterAsian Contexts and Connections Program, Social Science Research Council
2017 Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
2017 Visiting Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Tobunken), University of Tokyo
2017-19 Assistant Professor of the History of International Relations, Utrecht University
2020-present Ad Astra Fellow & Assistant Professor in the History of International Affairs, University College Dublin
2022-23 Associate Member, University Seminar on Modern Japan, Columbia University
2023 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Opium’s Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018).
“From the Leak to the League: the Japanese drug trade, global public opinion and accountability, 1915-1919,” in Valeska Huber; Jürgen Osterhammel, ed., Global Publics: their power and their limits, 1870-1990 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020 [Studies of the German Historical Institute, London], 2020).
“The Politics of Locating Violence: On the Japanese Nationalist Critique of American Racism after World War I,” Journal of the British Academy 8, supplementary issue 3, June 2020 https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/journal-british-academy/8s3/
“History’s Hatred: China’s War on Drugs and the Power of Past Violence,” Epicenter (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University), February 2019.
https://epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/blog/historys-hatred-chinas-war-on-drugs
“Chinese abolitionism: the Chinese Educational Mission in Connecticut, Cuba and Peru”, Journal of Global History, 11, 3 (Nov. 2016)
“Macro-region Gone Missing: The Pacific Rim,” International Institute for Asian Studies, The Newsletter 75 (Autumn 2016).
“Beyond the Call of Duty: Cosmopolitan Education and the Origins of Asian-American Women’s Medicine,” in: Robert David Johnson, ed., Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
In 2019, I gave the Bertha von Suttner masterclass lecture organized by the Peace Palace Library in The Hague, Netherlands and addressed the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (UNCND) at the Reconvened 62nd session on multilateralism.
