Academic Bio

I am an Assistant Professor of History at Bard College, where I teach courses in United States and Asian American History.

I’m an Assistant Professor of History at Bard College, where I teach courses on United States and Asian American History.

I’m a historian of the modern United States with particular interests in US empire and Asian American history. My first book project explores the relationship between race-making, migration, and empire in Louisiana’s early Filipino communities. My dissertation, Transimperial Histories and Racial Formations in Filipino Louisiana, 1860-1949, won the Outstanding Dissertation Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and New York University’s University-Wide Dissertation Award in Humanities. My research has been published in the Journal of Southern History and Rethinking History and has been supported by the NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute, the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, the Historic New Orleans Collection, and the CUNY Asian/Asian American Research Institute.

I was previously a Faculty Fellow in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis at NYU, where I taught courses in Asian/Pacific/American Studies.

Full CV here.