Experience

St. John's University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor

  • Sep 2015 - Present



Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PhD Student in History and East Asian Languages

  • Sep 2009 - May 2015

  My dissertation, "Roots and branches: ancestry and environment in early modern China," is on environmental management and social change in 15th to 17th century south China. I have conducted research in Shanghai and Jiangxi Province archives and in the field, summer 2011 and September 2013 to present. I track the emergence of family institutions to preserve forest environments around tombs, and the beginnings of demographic trends that pose challenges to these institutions. This project employs a number of digital techniques - including topic modeling, GIS, regression and social network analysis - as well as close reading of historical documents. Show less

• Teaching Fellow for Technology

  • Jan 2013 - May 2013

  Supervised undergraduate and graduate students in developing online course on Chinese history for HarvardX. Primary liaison between course development staff and software developers at EdX, librarians, and video and education specialists at the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.

• Head Teaching Fellow

  • Sep 2012 - Dec 2012

  Supervised 15 teaching fellows and approximately 650 students for a course on Chinese philosophy and ethics.

• Teaching Fellow

  • Sep 2011 - May 2012

  Developed lessons and led discussion sections for courses on Chinese history and history of China-Inner Asia relations.