Research Experience
Research Projects
2023-24 Independent Researcher, Art and Relational Building in Chinese queer feminist organizing, mentors: Dr. Calvin Cheung-Miaw, Dr. Ralph Litzinger, Dr. Eileen Chow, & Dr. Lee Baker
2023 Chinese international students’ political history, mentor: Dr. Nayoung Aimee Kwon (Documentary Studies, History, Asian/American Studies)
2023 Radical Black Feminist Imaginaries of China, mentor: Dr. Kelsey Desir (Gender Studies, History)
2022-23 Duke Institutional History Project, Dr. Robert Korstad & Dr. Thavolia Glymph (History)
2022, Art as Relation & Repair Across Disabled Ecologies & Histories, with Joy (Jiayin) Liu, Kaley Sperling. Mentors: Marina Tsaplina & Dr. Jessica Orzulak (Art History, Anthropology)
2021-2022, A City and Its River: Durham's Ellerbe Creek Watershed (Biology & Economics)
2022, America's Hallowed Ground, Mentors: Mike Wiley & Dr. Charlie Thompson (Art, Documentary Studies, Anthropology, History)
2021, Geer Cemetery: African American Labor, Dignity, & Practices of Freedom, with Nyrobi Manuel and Kerry Rork. Mentors: Dr. Adam Rosenblatt; Nick Levy, Friends of Geer Cemetery (History, Anthropology, Gender Studies)
2021, Alternative Farming Communities in Yunnan, China, mentor: Dr. Jessica Namakkal
Skills:
Genealogical research, archival research, historical and political analysis, cultural criticism and theories, interviews
familiarity with StoryMaps, ArcGIS, Ancestry.com, excel, Airtable, etc
StoryMaps Projects
+ Re-membering
+ Geer Cemetery
+ Wilmington 1898
Awards, Grants, Fellowships, & Scholarships:
2024 Paul Farmer Award for Justice and Social Responsibility in Cultural Anthropology
2024 Faculty Award, Asian American & Diaspora Studies
2023-24 Research Fellowship, Asian American & Diaspora Studies (AADS)
2024 Community Impact Award, Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity
2023 Janet B. Chiang Grant, Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI)
2023 Kristina Troost Prize in East Asian Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute
2023 Gender and Race Research Award, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
2023 Dora Anne Little Service Award, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies;
2023 Multicultural Leadership Award, Center for Multicultural Affairs
2022-24 Franklin Humanities Institute Graduate Working Group, “Remembering COVID from Below in China and the Diaspora”
2023 Dean’s Summer Research Fellowship
2023, 2024 Independent Study Award
2022 Advocate of the Year Award, Duke International Student Center
2022 Story+ Humanities Research Fellowship
2021 Story+ Humanities Research Fellowship
2021 Kenan Ethics Summer Fellowship
2021-22 Global Fellowship
2021-24 Conference Travel Grants, URS Office, APSI
2021-24 Sirena WuDunn Memorial Scholarship
2021 Dongguan Entrepreneur Scholarship