关于我
高中毕业之后,我在北京语言大学留学了一年。回国之后,我在威廉玛丽大学的专业是东亚学。大三时,我又到了北京留学,在北大修了几门课。 最后,我选择当中国现代史的教授。在弗吉尼亚大学当研究生的时候,我又回到了中国,在上海和东北做了研究。我研究的题目跟抗日战争的博物馆有关。在2020年的秋天我毕业了,毕业之后在威廉玛丽大学和美国大学教了一些历史课。再说,我也得到了威尔逊中心中国奖学金。 今年秋天,我在乔治城大学讲课,也开始写第一本书。同时,我也继续着找研究和教课的机会。 有空时,我喜欢提高我的外语能力(我会普通话和西班牙语),也喜欢读书、爬山。 EDUCATION
University of Virginia Department of History - PhD (fall 2020), MA (fall 2016) The College of William and Mary - BA (spring 2012) LANGUAGES
Mandarin Chinese Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) Line Scores: Simplified Written 3/3, Spoken 2+/3 English (native language), Mandarin Chinese (fluent), Spanish (fluent), Japanese (proficient), Russian (elementary). PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Council on Foreign Relations Stephen M. Kellen Program Kellen Term Member, July 2024 - June 2029 National Committee on United States-China Relations (NCUSCR) Member, June 2024 - Present Council on Foreign Relations Education Ambassador Program Education Ambassador, Sept 2023 – May 2024 University of Virginia East Asia Center Research Affiliate, Oct 2022 – Present SELECT INVITED TALKS
Invited speaker for “The future of US-China education exchanges” for conference “The future of US-China exchanges: celebrating 45 years of normalization of US-China relations” at George Washington University, April 20, 2024. (Estimated attendance: 50) Invited speaker on China’s World War II at Johns Hopkins University, April 16, 2024. Invited speaker on China’s World War II at the National Defense University, College of International Security Affairs on March 7, 2024. Invited lecturer for the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute course on “Historical Memory and National Identity in Mongolia” on December 13, 2023. Invited panelist to represent Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Asian Studies Program for “Press Freedom in Hong Kong, featuring the works of “Zunzi”,” hosted by the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation at Georgetown University on November 28, 2023. Invited speaker for Reves Distinguished Lecture in International Studies on “The “Date Debate”: Northeastern Scholars and China’s New World War II Timeline” at the College of William and Mary on October 20, 2023. Invited speaker on “Memorializing the Mukden Incident: Northeastern Scholars and China’s New World War II Timeline” for Asia in Depth series, Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University on October 17, 2023. Invited speaker on “The “Date Debate”: Northeastern Scholars and China’s New World War II Timeline” for History Department at Randolph College on October 9, 2023. Invited guest lecturer on “China’s World War II” for Modern Chinese History course taught by James Gethyn Evans at George Washington University on October 2, 2023. Moderator for Ian Johnson Book Talk on Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service on September 29, 2023. |
About Me
Initially, I decided to study Mandarin Chinese during my junior year in high school. This serendipitously led me to take a gap year after high school graduation, during which I took intensive language courses at Beijing Language and Culture University. After returning to the United States, I decided to major in East Asian Studies at the College of William and Mary. I returned to Beijing again my junior year of college to further hone my language skills, and took several undergraduate courses at Peking University. Ultimately, I decided I wanted to pursue a career as a historian of modern China. I enrolled as a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia and lived in China again in summer and fall of 2017 to conduct research in Shanghai and Northeastern China on museums that commemorate the War of Resistance against Japan. I defended my dissertation in the fall of 2020, and have since taught multiple courses at the College of William and Mary and American University and completed the Wilson Center China Fellowship. From fall 2023 through summer 2024, I am teaching and doing research as an assistant teaching professor at Georgetown University and writing my first book while continuing to pursue further opportunities for research and teaching. In my spare time, I enjoy practicing my foreign language skills (I speak and write fluent Mandarin Chinese and Spanish); reading for pleasure; and hiking. ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association (AHA) Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) Memory Studies Association (MSA) Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC-AAS) Women in International Security (WIIS) SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Panelist for the Globalized Memorial Museums conference on “Travels beyond the Holocaust: Memorialization, Musealization, and Representation of Atrocities in Global Dialogue” for the 10th Annual Conference of the Historical Dialogues, jointly sponsored by the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna, Austria, June 2024. Panelist for session on Diplomatic Encounters and Public Perceptions: Cold War Politics between the U.S., PRC, and Korean Peninsula. Panel paper “Complicity and Cold War Politics,” presented at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 24, 2024. Organizer and panelist for session on Narrating the Nation-State: Historical Memory and Ideology in Modern East Asia. Panel paper “Marxism and the Mukden Incident: Dialectical Materialism and China’s World War II Timeline” presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, March 2024. Organizer, chair, and panelist for America’s “Forgotten War” Remembered: The Legacy of US Involvement and the Korean War in East Asia. Panel paper “Complicity and Cold War Politics: The Long Shadow of Unit 731 in Sino-US Relations” presented at the Southeastern Conference for the Association for Asian Studies, Wake Forest University, January 2024. Organizer and panelist for session on History, Memory, and Geopolitics – How the Legacy of World War II Shapes National Narratives in the 21st Century. Panel paper “Longer War, Stronger Legitimacy – How the Chinese Communist Party Redefined the War of Resistance against Japan to Bolster Its Right to Rule” presented at the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Conference, Arlington, VA, June 16, 2023. |