Biography
I am a joint PhD candidate in Southeast Asian History and Educational Policy Studies. My research interests center on the history of education in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Southeast Asia and the United States and explore issues of identity, nationalism, assimilation, and exclusion in educational contexts. I am also broadly interested in American and European empire, and specifically in the Western missionary impulse as a component of the imperial project. Some of my other research interests include educational access, language of instruction, knowledge production and dissemination in high colonial Southeast Asia; the history of childhood; and transnational histories of education.
Education
M.A., Loyola University (Chicago, IL)
B.A., Lawrence University (Appleton, WI)
Field
- Southeast Asian History and History of Education
MA Title
- “Constructing a ‘Good’ Colonial Society: Representations of Philippine Colonial Education at the 1887 Philippine Exposition in Madrid and the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair”
Working Dissertation Title
- “The Origin of Public Elementary Education in the Philippines, 1820–1898”
Selected Publications
- “The Impact of Spain’s 1863 Educational Decree on the Spread of Philippine Public Schools and Language Acquisition,” European Education 44, no. 4 (Winter 2012–13), 8–30.
Awards
- Noriko Saito Travel Award, Educational Policy Studies Department (2016)
- Research Travel Award, Graduate School (2016)
- Field Research Award, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (2015)
- Honored Instructor Award, Division of University Housing (2014 and 2015)
- Early Excellence in Teaching Award, History Department (2014)
- Sterling Fishman Memorial Scholarship, Educational Policy Studies Department (2013)
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), Center for Southeast Asian Studies (2012–13)
- Education Graduate Research Scholar Fellowship (Ed-GRS), Graduate School (2011–12, 2016–17)
Professional Affiliations
- American Educational Research Association
- American Historical Association
- Association for Asian Studies
- History of Education Society
Courses Caught as TA
- History 319 – The Vietnam Wars
- History/EPS 412 – The History of American Education
- IS 101 – Introduction to International Studies
Courses Caught as Instructor
- History/EPS 412 – The History of American Education