Publications

"Shifting 'Uncle Toms': Trans-Pacific Interactions and the Myth of Black-Asian Solidarity in the Twentieth Century," Journal of American History (Forthcoming)

Awards: Louis Pelzer Memorial Award (Organization of American Historians, OAH); East-West Center ASDP Program First Place Paper Prize (conference paper);   "Memphis State Eight" Third Place Paper Prize (conference paper）

"Ho Kim Tong’s Transpacific Experience: Chinese Citizen Diplomacy and Pan-Pacific Internationalism in Hawai‘i, 1910s–1920s," History: The Journal of the Historical Association, First View. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.70139 

Review of Patrick Moser, Waikīkī Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture (University of Illinois Press, 2024), Western Historical Quarterly, 56/4 (2025):337-38. 

Review of Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Hawai‘i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific (Duke University Press, 2021), Journal of American Ethnic History, 45/1 (2025): 109-10.

Review of Juliet Nebolon, Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai’i & the Making of US Empire (Duke University Press, 2024), Journal of Military History, 89/2 (2025): 495-97.

Review of Hongshan Li, Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War (Columbia University Press, 2023), H-War, H-Net Reviews, February 2025.

Book Notes of Zoë Burkholder, An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North (Oxford University Press, 2021), Journal of Southern History, 90/2 (2024): 468-69.

“Funding the Pacific: The Rockefeller Foundation and Trans-Pacific Scholarship in Hawai‘i, 1920s–1950s,”  Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports, June 30, 2026. Link

“A Global Approach to Indigenous History,” Journal of Oxford University History Society, 12/2(2021): 217-235.