RESEARCH INTERESTS
History of the Japanese empire, colonial Korea, gender and labor, prostitution and sex work, comparative colonialisms
AWARDS
2022 Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize, Northeast Asia for "Filial Daughters and Disreputable Women: Japanese Geisha, Prostitutes, and the Pleasure Quarter in Colonial Korea, 1880-1930," presented at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Twentieth-century Korean diaspora; migration and the family; postcolonial nation-building in the Cold War; epistolary writing; hope and utopian imaginations
DISSERTATION
Writing Home, Writing Hope: Epistolary Kinship Across Korea's Divided Diasporas
DISSERTATION
Tremors of Freedom: Earthquakes, Hydroelectricity, and Self-Determination in Modern India
DISSERTATION
Children of the State: Labour, Family, and Education in Mexico City's Welfare System, 1930-1970
RESEARCH INTERESTS
US 20th century; legal history; constitutional law, feminist history; gender and sexuality; social movements; citizenship; political imagination.
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS
Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, 2022.
"From the Rule of Law to a Rule of Rights," International Journal of Human Rights, 26 no. 9 (2022): 1503-1521.
"Feminism Without Roe," Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 27 no. 2 (2024): 252-325.
Hometown: Thanh Hoa, Vietnam
Education: Earlham College, Richmond, IN; B.A., History
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Informed by Critical Theory’s critique of modernism, colonialism, and nationalism, my current research concentration lies at the intersection of print culture, urban politics, gender, and emotion in modern Asia.
I have found my research engaging with two sets of questions. The former concerns the condition of freedom: the encounter with the Other, forms of agency in tragedies, and the possibility of politics in everyday life. The latter confronts the condition of historical writing: concept work, the possibility of writing world history and history in the plural, and positionality.
NEWS
— Neubauer Family Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship
— Honorable Mention in the Vietnam Studies Group 2020 Graduate Paper Prize Competition
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japanese history; history of science and medicine; gender and labor; medical education and technology; history of care
DISSERTATION
"Women Who Watch and Protect": Care Ethics, Labor, and Nursing in Twentieth Century Japan
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Twentieth-century Central Asia and Russia; gender, sexuality, law, and nationhood; political economy; leisure and pleasure
RESEARCH INTEREST
Twentieth century economic history; history of the Global South; political economy; development; finance; energy and environmental history