Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005; M.A., UC Berkeley, 1997; B.A., Cornell University, 1995.
Research Interests: Modern Japan, Colonial Korea, Japanese empire in Asia, Comparative empires, Settler colonialism, History of immigration and diaspora, Decolonization and politics of memory and Oral history.
Book Review: Takasaki Sōji, Shokuminchi Chōsen no Nihonjin [The Japanese in Colonial Korea] (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2002), Kankoku Chōsen Bunka Kenkyūkai, ed. Kankoku Chōsen no bunka to shakai [Korean Culture and Society], vol. 2 (October 2003).
Fellowships and Awards: Freeman Spogli Institute Stanford Society of Fellows in Japanese Studies Grant, 2010, Korea Institute & Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, 2008-2009, Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize, Harvard University, 2006, Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, 2004-2006, Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Spring 2004, Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, 2002-2003, Harvard-Yenching Institute Fellowship, Harvard University, 1998-2001, Anne McIntyre Award in History, Cornell University, 1995.