About Me

I recently completed my Ph.D. in East Asian studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2025), where I also earned the Dr. Sandra J. Finley Teacher Scholar Certificate (2024), and am currently pursuing the LAS & OVCDEI Inclusive Pedagogy Certificate (expected 2026). In 2018, I attended the Winter School in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. My academic training combines historical research with a strong commitment to inclusive and effective teaching.

My research explores the intersection of crime, law, and medicine in late imperial China, with a focus on how judicial and medical authorities constructed, institutionalized, and regulated madness under the Qing dynasty. I am currently developing a book manuscript titled Legal Justice, Medical Authority, and Madness in China, 1600-1930, and conducting comparative studies on Euro-Asian histories of insanity, doctor-patient relationships, Manchu medical texts, and the pharmaceutical industry in East Asia. My research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Illinois Global Institute at the University of Illinois.

At UIUC, I teach surveys of modern and contemporary East Asia, premodern China, and upper-level seminars on history of medicine in China, and Qing China.