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 a Five College Fellow at Amherst College in Massachusetts from 2014-15 and an Arthur J. Ennis Postdoctoral Fellow at Villanova University near Philadelphia from 2017-18.

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 forthcoming book, Parliament in the British Political Imagination, 1550-1600 (Manchester University Press, 2025) 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.

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