My research explores the transpacific genealogies of Asian racial form, with a particular focus on “Asian Australia.” Based in the period from the 1960s (the end of immigration exclusion) to the present, my work attempts to understand Asian racialization within the context of Cold War geopolitics, Asia-Pacific political economy, and Anglophone and Asian (sub-)imperialism and settler colonialism.
I am a co-convenor of the Asian/American Studies Collective at UCSB which coordinates interdisciplinary programming for graduate students working in Asian American studies.
“At the Gate to Australia’s Tiananmen Peace: Asian Racialization and Australia’s Tiananmen Chinese,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (2024).
With Thomas J. Rogers. “Bushman or Boer – Australian Identity in a ‘White Man’s War’, 1899–1902.” British Journal of Military History 7, no. 2 (2021): 64–86.
Review of the boba show: history, diaspora, & a third space, Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, curated by Juily Phun and Jason Pereira, February 10, 2023–January 7, 2024, in The Public Historian 46, no. 2 (2024): 148–153.
Instructor of Record
HIST189E: History of the Pacific (Summer 2024)
Teaching Assistant
ASAM1: Introduction to Asian American History (Summer 2023)
ASAM2: American Migrations Since 1965 (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)
ASAM5: Introduction to Asian American Literature (Fall 2022)
ASAM8: Introduction to Asian American Gender and Sexuality (Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025)
ASAM9: Race and Resistance (Winter 2025)
HIST2B: World History, 1000CE–1700CE (Summer 2023)
HISTw80: Chinese Civilization (Summer 2022)
INT186ED: Transfer Edge (Summer 2022, Summer 2023)
National Library of Australia Scholarship, 2024
Fulbright Scholarship (W.G. Walker), Australian-American Fulbright Commission, 2021–22
University Medal, Australian National University, 2020