EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Ph.D in Modern Chinese History expected May 2019
“The Limits of Pragmatism: Ideology, Statecraft, and Early Republican China, 1911-1926”
Professors Wen-hsin Yeh (Chair), Mary Elizabeth Berry, You-tien Hsing
EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
National Central Library (Taiwan), Center for Chinese Studies
Research Grant for Foreign Scholars in Chinese Studies (declined), 2014
Fulbright - IIE Fellowship, Department of State
Dissertation research in China, February – December 2013
UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP & AWARDS
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
M.A. in Regional Studies: East Asia, May 2006
“From Collective Institutions to Informal Association: The Changing Role of Native-place Ties in China”
Professor Madeleine Zelin
Institute for East Asian Studies
Haas Junior Scholars Program for Doctoral Candidates, 2014-2015
Li Ka-shing Fellowship in Modern Chinese History, 2009-2014
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
B.A. in Social Studies, June 2004, Magna Cum Laude
“Uniting Ideology and Practice: The Influence of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought on
PRC Education Policy, 1949-1976”
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
“Power, Transformation, and Loyalty in Early Republican Hunan”
Annual Meeting of Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, WA, March 2016
The Secret and The Sacred: The State and Its Alternatives in Chinese Societies Interdisciplinary Conference, Berkeley, CA, March 2016
“Provincial and Local Governance in Early Republican Hunan”
Haas Junior Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA, November 2015
“Law, Morality, and History: Li Jiannong and the Hunan Provincial Constitution Movement, 1920-1925”
“Law, Morality, and History: Li Jiannong and the Hunan Provincial Constitution Movement, 1920-1925”
Haas Junior Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA, November 2015
“Law, Morality, and History: Li Jiannong and the Hunan Provincial Constitution Movement, 1920-1925”
Haas Junior Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA, November 2015
“Law, Morality, and History: Li Jiannong and the Hunan Provincial Constitution Movement, 1920-1925”
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Center for Chinese Studies
Liu Graduate Student Fellowship, 2015
Republic of China East Asia Fellowship, Fall 2012
Summer Research Grant, 2011
Graduate Division
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2017
Student Parent Grant Award, 2016-2017
Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, 2014-15
Student Mentoring and Research Teams grant, Summer 2012
ADVANCE RESEARCH TRAINING
UC Berkeley Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty, Berkeley,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
LANGUAGE
English (Native)
Mandarin Chinese (Excellent)
Japanese (Basic Reading)
French (Basic)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CHEUNG KONG GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, BEIJING CHINA
GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT MARKETING MANAGER
Haas Junior Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA, November 2015
“Power, Transformation, and Loyalty in Early Republican Hunan”
Haas Junior Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA, November 2015