About Me

I am a historian of the twentieth-century U.S. My research and teaching interests include the U.S. in the world; military, war, and society; nations and empires; political history; U.S.-East Asian relations; transnational history; and education and childhood.

I received my Ph.D. from Columbia University and am currently an assistant professor of history at the National University of Singapore. I will be in residence at Princeton University for the 2025-2026 academic year as a Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.

Research Projects

My first monograph, The Age of Youth: American Society and the Two World Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2025), ties together the history of U.S. foreign relations, U.S. social policy, and the history of youth and education to show how military service and access to education became linked in the first half of the 20th century. Please see the "Research" page for more information.

News

November 3, 2025

I spoke about my book with the academic blog The Way of Improvement Leads Home. Find the interview here.

Sept. 10, 2025

A short piece about my book that I wrote for Newsweek Japan is out! Click here for the article (in Japanese).

June 14, 2025

I have been selected as a 2025-26 Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University. Click here to see the announcement.