I am currently Assistant Professor in World History at National Chengchi University 國立政治大學 in Taipei, Taiwan. For the previous six years, I taught at Grinnell College in Iowa, where I was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in May 2024. I received my PhD in early modern British and European history from Stanford University in 2016, and my BA in History from Princeton University in 2006. I was an Arthur J. Ennis Postdoctoral Fellow at Villanova University near Philadelphia from 2017-18, a Five College Fellow at Amherst College in Massachusetts from 2014-15, and a Whiting Dissertation Fellow from 2013-2014.

I study political experimentation and understandings of (il)legitimate authority in two very different contexts: in post-Reformation Europe and democratic Taiwan. I am the author of one book, Parliament in the British Political Imagination, 1550-1600 (forthcoming with Manchester University Press) and the co-author of another, Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order (Cambria Press, 2024) with Mark Harrison, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Tasmania.

My research has been supported by the Huntington Library, American Philosophical Society, Renaissance Society of America, Association for Low Countries Studies, Five Colleges Consortium, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, and the National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan.

As part of my service to the field, I am on the editorial board of Broadsides, an online publication of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) and the Chinese-language Journal of the Taiwan Historical Association 《台灣史學雜誌》.

I can be reached via email here. My latest CV is available for download here.