Bio

Hi! Welcome to my website. 

I am a PhD candidate in sociology at Boston College. My dissertation uses archival documents and interviews to trace China's energy transition policies from 2003 to 2022. Through examining how central bureaucrats, subnational officials, and energy entrepreneurs debated the appropriate policies to address "overcapacity" crises in the solar industry and control total energy consumption, the dissertation contributes to energy transition politics and the growth versus sustainability debate in environmental sociology. 

My master's project used both ethnographic and quantitative methods to study the impacts of land expropriation in rural China. My papers, published in The Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Agrarian Change, and Land Use Policy, explain how expropriated villagers took advantage of the ambiguous customary rules on land ownership for individual gain, and for whom and under what conditions land expropriation constituted "dispossession" in rural China in the 2010s. 

In addition to my own research, I have been working as a research assistant analyzing survey data on global four-day workweek trials. In college, I worked as a producer on the participatory video project, "Visualizing the voices of migrant women workers." I also took a gap year to work at a rural development NGO in Beijing in 2017-2018.