THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
RESEARCH INTERESTS
America in the World, U.S. military building, U.S.-East Asian relations, development, U.S. military empire, race, culture, the Korean War
DISSERTATION
To Make an Army: Militarized Modernity, Military Advisors, and the Genesis of U.S. Global Power
PUBLICATIONS
"Afterlives of Orientalism: Corporal Punishment and U.S. Military-Building in Korea," Diplomatic History, 26 August 2024.
"The True Horseman of the ‘Fallout’ Apocalypse," Foreign Policy Magazine, May 18, 2024.
"Can the U.S. Rewrite Its Tortured History of Aid to the Philippines? A military long shaped by Washington’s priorities now needs to modernize," Foreign Policy Magazine, August 31, 2023.
“Interpreting Empire: English, U.S. Advisors, and Interpreters in the Korean War,” Journal of American-East Asian Relations vol. 29 n. 4 (2022): 365-390.
AWARDS