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

"The U.S. Has Never Known What to Do With Foreign Students," Foreign Policy Magazine, April 9, 2025.

"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

National Fellow, Jefferson Scholars Foundation, 2023-25

SHAFR Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant, 2022