I am preparing my doctoral dissertation in History at the University of Zurich, Switzerland (Faculty page: EN / DE), where I study the history of agricultural science in modern Japan and Taiwan. Specifically, I look at how premodern Confucian ideologies of agrarian statecraft translate into the epistemology and politics of modern agricultural science, as well as how its legacies continue through empire into foreign aid today. You can read more about my project here.

Before arriving at my current position, I worked on the history of contemporary Japanese culture. You may know me from my writing on Japanese web novels [1][2] or the politics of contemporary aesthetics [1][2].

I am a polyglot and speak English, French, Chinese, Japanese to advanced levels of fluency. I’m currently working on improving my German and my skills in premodern scripts.

On this website, you can find an abbreviated CV and PDF downloads of my publications. You can also catch my unhinged musings on Bluesky.

The image to the right is a depiction of farmer-soldiers created by bureaucrats at the Hokkaido Kaitakushi in early Meiji Japan, held at the Hokkaido Museum.