Education

Ph.D., History, Duke University, 2006

Fields of interest

Global empires, modern Japan, transmarine East Asia, port cities, and historical geography

Courses taught

Modern Japan; Modern East Asia; A Tale of Two Empires: Connecting American and Japanese Imperialisms; Mapping Human Lives; World Civilizations II

Representative publications

• Empires on the Waterfront: Japan's Ports and Power, 1858-1899 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2015)
• "A Two-Timing Map?" in Cartographic Japan, Cary Karacas and Kären Wigen, eds., forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, 2016

Professional Affiliations

President, Southeast Conference, Association for Asian Studies (2016-17)