Professional Appointments
Postdoctoral Research Scholar of Modern China, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University (2025–)
Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University (2025–)
Education
Ph.D., Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University (2025)
M.A., Department of Religion, Florida State University (2018)
Research and Teaching Interests
Modern China; Tibet; Migration; Territoriality and Place-making; Labor regimes; Borderlands; Monasteries; Pastoralism; Digital humanities; Historical G.I.S.; Political geography; Minoritization; Trade networks; Poverty alleviation; Environmental conservation
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“The Third Arol Tsang, Lobzang Lungtok Tenpai Gyeltsen,” The Treasury of Lives, June 2026.
“Community Territorialization through Monastery Construction in Tsongön
(Qinghai): Pastoralist Migration and Settlement in the 19th and 20th Centuries”
in Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, no. 76, April 2025, pp. 196–236.
Teaching and Work Experience
Instructor of Record
Teaching Assistant
M.A. Thesis Writing
Introduction to Asian Civilization: China
Introduction to Asian Civilization: Japan
Introduction to Asian Civilization: Tibet
Tibetan and Himalayan Religions
Introduction to World Religions
Work Experience
Graduate Student Coordinator for Columbia Secondary School East Asian History Project (2024–2025)
Tutor for Beaver Scholar (2024–2025)
Research Assistant for Studio Nyandak’s Temples of Tibet Project (2024)
Coordinator for Life Along the River Conference at Columbia University (2021)
Research Assistant for the Mapping Historical New York Project at the Center for Spatial Research (2019)
Research Assitant for WEAI Tibetan Digitization Project. Prepared archival materials for digtization (2018)
Assisted faculty with transitioning courses into Canvas LMS (2017, 2018)
Worked with Religion Department Chair to design Graduate Student Handbook (2016)
Selected Fellowships and Awards
Dorothy Borg Ph.D. Fellowship (2024–2025)
Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) Research Grant (SRG) (2023)
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellow in
Taiwan (2023)
Invited Lectures, Panels, and Events
Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University, panelist for “Teaching Challenging Topics in the Classroom” (2025)
Academia Sinica, Symposium on Modern East Asian History in a Global Context, “The International Wool Trade and the Rise of Grassland Monasteries in Amdo” (2023)
Representative for the East Asia Graduate Association at “Let’s Talk About Anti-Asian Racism” Town Hall (2021)
Conference Organizer or Respondent
Respondent
Columbia University Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, “Between Empires: Negotiating Belonging in Semi-Colonial and Colonial East Asia” (2026)
Academia Sinica, “Symposium on Inner Asian, Maritime, and Global History” (2023)
Panel Organizer
Association for Asian Studies, “Memory and the Archive in Twentieth-Century Tibet” (2023)
Conference Presentations
New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS), “Building the Nation through Scientific Aid: The Northwest China Cattle Plague of 1942” (2026)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, “A Distant Authority: Qing Governance in Qinghai” (2026)
American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, “The Cold War on the Tibetan Plateau: Patriotic Herders Resisting Imperialism” (2025)
American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting, “To Make a Monastery: Tibetan Settlement and Place-making on the Amdo Grasslands” (2024)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS), “The Rise of Tibetan Community Histories in Post-Mao China” (2023)
International Association of Tibetan Studies, “Crossing the River: Tibetan Settlement Around Lake Kokonor and Connections with Eastern Amdo” (2022)
International Association of Tibetan Studies, “Monastic Administration and Community Formation in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Amdo” (2019)
Florida State University Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Conference, “Group Identity in Amdo” (2017)
Columbia University’s Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, “Social Groups in Northeastern Tibet—A Brief Examination of Tsho ba” (2017)
Florida State University’s Department of Religion Graduate Symposium, “Local History and Social Organization in Amdo” (2017)
Languages and Skills
Chinese: Classical Chinese, Modern Literary Chinese, Mandarin
Tibetan: Classical Tibetan, Modern Literary Tibetan
French (reading)
Geographic Information Systems (ArcGIS Pro, QGIS)
Service
Exemplary M.A. Essay Award Committee Member for Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (2026)
East Asian Graduate Student Association (EAGA) Officer (2020–2023)
Khorlo Tibetan Studies Graduate Student Group Leader (2019–2020)
Professional Organizations
Amdo Research Network
American Academy of Religion
American Historical Association
Association for Asian Studies
Historical Geography and GIS Network
International Association of Tibetan Studies