In my teaching, I employ transnational and comparative approaches to unpack seemingly self-evident social categories and historical processes with the intention of destabilizing students’ preconceived notions. I design my courses around this principle by assigning texts from a wide range of geographic contexts and time periods to track how concepts, institutions, and cultural phenomena might have taken different forms than they do today. By rendering the familiar unfamiliar, I encourage students to be empathetic for people in places, times, and subject positions radically different from their own.

This semester (Fall 2025), I am a Teaching Assistant for “War in U.S. History: From the Frontier to the Wars on Terror” taught by Ruth Lawlor. In Spring 2026, I will be teaching a First-Year Writing Seminar entitled “Imperial Islands.” 

My past teaching experience at Cornell University includes teaching a First-Year Writing Seminar entitled “Asian Labor Migrations” (Spring 2022), as well as serving as Teaching Assistant for “History of Law: Great Trials,” “A Global History of Love,” and “Modern China.”

Apart from syllabi for the classes that I have already taught, the following sample syllabi are available upon request:

  • Survey courses on modern Southeast Asia and Maritime Southeast Asia in the longue durée

  • Citizenship, Belonging, and Borders in Asia

  • The Indian Ocean World

  • What Was Decolonization?

  • The Global Cold War

  • Oral History: Theory and Practice

  • The Historiography of the Malay World (graduate level)

View of a busy shipping port with large cargo cranes along the waterfront, cargo ships docked, and a calm water body in the foreground under a partly cloudy sky. Port Klang viewed from Strait of Malacca.

Container cranes at Port Klang, viewed from the Strait of Malacca