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I had the privilege of teaching at three (very different) institutions in my academic career, beginning at Cornell University where, as a graduate student, I taught two original first-year writing seminars focused on the history of pain and accidents, respectively.

 

After finishing my PhD in 2014, I taught in the history department at Wheaton College (MA), first as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral teaching fellow (2014-15) and later returning as a visiting assistant professor (2016-17). Between my two stints at Wheaton, I spent a year at Harvard University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center (where I did not have any teaching responsibilities).

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While at Wheaton, I served as primary academic advisor to the seventeen students who were enrolled in my first-year seminar on the history of pain. I also offered lecture courses on the history of modern Southeast Asia, modern China, and Medicine & Imperialism, as well as an elective seminar on "Religion & Rebellion in Colonial Asia."  

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My final academic appointment was at Boston College, where I spent three years (2017-20) teaching a two-semester, large-enrollment lecture course on Globalization. The 250 students in my course analyzed the role of “commodities, creeds, and conjurors” in fostering global integration in the early modern and modern worlds. They also became acquainted with Southeast Asia as a global crossroads and an ideal vantage-point for making sense of the moments and movements that have paved the way for a more connected world.

 

A generous patron offered the following review of my swan song as an educator: "Great guy, great beard, great teacher. Big fan." 

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