In 2006, I graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in history and traveled to Yokohama, Japan on a Richard U. Light fellowship to join the Inter University Center for Japanese for Japanese Language Studies’ 10-month program. After completing the IUC program, I joined Google’s Tokyo office and spent three years working in a variety of roles (recruiter, executive assistant, internal communications) before returning to the U.S. and to academia. I received my MA in 2013 and my PhD in 2019 from the University of Southern California, where I specialized in premodern Japanese history. During that time, I was awarded a Japan Foundation dissertation fellowship (2014-2015) and spent a year as a researcher at the Historiographical Institute at The University of Tokyo (史料編纂所) . I am currently James B. Duke Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and History at Furman University in Greenville, SC. My primary research interests lie in the fields of classical Japanese and East Asian legal and cultural history.
