FORBIDDEN CITY, BEIJING
CURRICULUM VITAE
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Li Ka-shing Foundation Program in Modern Chinese History at UC Berkeley
Program Officer
Events, Communications, Publications
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D., History, awarded August 2019
Dissertation Title: “Mutiny in Hunan: Writing and Rewriting the ‘Warlord Era’ in Early Republican Chinese History”
Committee: Professors Wen-hsin Yeh (Chair), Peter Zinoman, You-tien Hsing
Columbia University
M.A. in Regional Studies: East Asia, May 2006
M.A. Thesis Title: “From Collective Institutions to Informal Association: The Changing Role of Native-place Ties in China”
Advisor: Professor Madeleine Zelin
Harvard University
B.A. in Social Studies, June 2004, Magna Cum Laude
Senior Thesis Title: “Uniting Ideology and Practice: The Influence of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought on PRC Education Policy, 1949-1976”
PAST EMPLOYMENT
Stanford University
Lecturer, Center for East Asian Studies
Sole instructor for seminar "War and the Making of Modern China"
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Civic, Liberal, and Global Education ("COLLEGE") / Thinking Matters Fellow
COLLEGE107: “Preventing Human Extinction” (Paul Edwards, Steve Luby), Spring 2023
COLLEGE102: "Citizenship in the 21st Century," Winter 2022, 2023
COLLEGE101: "Why College?" Fall 2022
THINK65: “Preventing Human Extinction” (Paul Edwards, Steve Luby), Spring 2020-2022
THINK55: “Understanding China Through Film” (Ban Wang), Winter 2020, Fall 2020-2021
THINK60: “American Enemies” (Gordon Chang), Fall 2019
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University of San Francisco
Adjunct Faculty
APS 601, “Asia-Pacific Histories and Modernities,” Fall 2015-2018, 2022-2023
Designed and taught seminar (formerly “Comparative Modernization and History of East Asia”)
on China, Korea, and Japan for USF MAPS (Master’s of Arts in Asia-Pacific Studies) program
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San Francisco State University
Adjunct Faculty
HIST 362, “Modern China,” Spring 2022
Sole instructor for asynchronous online course on modern Chinese history. Designed syllabus, delivered recorded lectures, graded assignments for 40 students.
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University of California, Berkeley
Instructor of Record
History 116D: “Twentieth-Century China,” Summer 2022, 2023
Design and instruction of lecture course on major events, continuities, and figures
in the history of Twentieth-Century China
History 103F: “War and State Violence in the Making of Modern China,” Spring 2016
Design and instruction of seminar concerning the military history of China
from 1800-present for advanced undergraduate majors
History R1B: “Ethnicity, Nationalism and History in Modern East Asia,” Spring 2014
Designed and taught writing seminar aimed at first-year non-majors
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Graduate Student Instructor
Political Economy 101, “Contemporary Theories of Political Economy,” Spring 2018
International Area Studies 45, “Survey of World History,” Fall 2017
History 6B, “History of China, Mongols to Mao,” Spring 2012
History 6A, “History of China: Origins to the Mongol Conquest,” Fall 2010
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Reader (Grader)
History 182A: “Science, Technology, and Society,” Spring 2019
Media Studies 111 “Media History,” Fall 2018
History 116D “Twentieth-Century China,” Fall 2011
History 117A, “Chinese Popular Culture,” Spring 2011
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Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, China, 2007-2009
Global Communications Department Marketing Manager
Part of team tasked to raising international profile of private, not-for-profit, Beijing-based business school. Controlled advertising budget (online and print media), produced marketing materials (brochures), supervised relationships with English-language media, directed events (public lectures and panels), managed exchanges with partner institutions. External communications in English, internal in Chinese
PUBLICATIONS
Review of Pierre Fuller, “Famine Relief in Warlord China,” Journal of Chinese History, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2021, pp.137-140
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
National Central Library (Taiwan), Center for Chinese Studies
Research Grant for Foreign Scholars in Chinese Studies (declined), Summer 2014
Fulbright-IIE Fellowship, Department of State
Dissertation research in China, February – December 2013
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Division Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2017
Graduate Division Student Parent Grant Award, 2016-2017
Institute for East Asian Studies Haas Junior Scholars Program, 2014-2015
Center for Chinese Studies Liu Graduate Student Fellowship, 2015
Graduate Division Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, 2014-15
Graduate Division Student Mentoring and Research Teams Grant, Summer 2012
Center for Chinese Studies Republic of China East Asia Fellowship, Fall 2012
Center for Chinese Studies Summer Research Grant, 2011
Institute for East Asian Studies Li Ka-shing Fellowship, 2009-2014
ADVANCED RESEARCH TRAINING
UC Berkeley Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty, Berkeley, CA, Summer 2015
UC Berkeley-Academia Sinica Winter Institute, Taipei, Taiwan
Institute of Taiwanese History / Institute of Ethnology, January 2013
Institute of Modern History, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2011
Institute of History and Philology, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2010
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
“A Thin Line Between Civilian and Military Rule? Warlord Politics and Regime Change in Hunan Province, 1911-1921”
Society for Military History Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2023
New York University, New York, NY, April 2023
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“Power, Transformation, and Loyalty in Early Republican Hunan”
Annual Meeting of Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, WA, March 2016
“Provincial and Local Governance in Early Republican Hunan”
The Secret and The Sacred: The State and Its Alternatives in Chinese Societies, Interdisciplinary Conference, Berkeley, CA, March 2016
“Law, Morality, and History: Li Jiannong and the Hunan Provincial Constitution Movement, 1920-1925”
Haas Junior Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA, November 2015
“Values, Laws, and Constitutions: Wang Zhengting, Zhang Shizhao, and the Early Republican Period of Modern Chinese History”
Doctoral Workshop, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2015
“The Birth of A Republic”
Guest Lecture for “History 148B: Modern Chinese History,” (Instructor: Matthew Berry), Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA, February 2015
“The Art of Governing (and not Governing) Hunan in the Early Republic”
University of San Francisco China Research Group, San Francisco, CA, May 2014
Annual Meeting of Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, PA, March 2014
“Explicitly Using Sources to Create a New History: Tan Yankai, Zhao Hengti, and The November 1920 Pingjiang Mutiny in Hunan”
Junior Scholars Conference on China in the 20th Century, Beijing, China, June 2013
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Panel Co-organizer
“Under-Stated Leadership: Elite Networks in 20th Century East Asia,” Haas Junior Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA, November 2015
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Panel Organizer
“Networked Governance in Republican and Contemporary China,” Annual Meeting of Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, PA, March 2014
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Conference Co-organizer
Junior Scholars Conference on China in the 20th Century, Beijing, China, June 2013
LANGUAGES
English (Native) Mandarin Chinese (Excellent), Japanese (Basic Reading), French (Basic)