2024
Lecturer at Brandeis University
Teaching my first college course, ANTH144a Anthropology of Gender
Brandeis University - GSAS: Summer Dissertation Writing Award
Granted $2000 to offset summer expenses so I can focus on writing
Brandeis University - GSAS: TA Award
Recognition for excellence in student teaching
2023
Granted $1500 to put towards travel expenses for my dissertation fieldwork in China.
Granted $300 to put towards travel expenses for my dissertation fieldwork in China.
Begin Principle Dissertation Research
Six months of fieldwork across six cities in China. Focusing predominately on single men, this explores the effects of singleness on the lives of urban singletons and their understanding of their adulthood status.
Funded by Brandeis' Mandel Center Dissertation Innovation Grant, I completed a 12-week remote character animation course through the School of Motion.
Brandeis University - Mandel Dissertation Innovation Grant
Granted $2000 to put towards a character animation course and hiring an assistant during the first few months of my dissertation fieldwork in Yunnan, China.
Granted $2000 to put towards travel expenses for my dissertation fieldwork in China.
Brandeis University - The Mandel Center for the Humanities: Dissertation Writing Retreat
Participate in a Writing retreat with six other Brandeis PhD students in a five-day writing intensive workshop on the beach just outside of Providence, Rhode Island.
Brandeis University - Prospectus Defense
Present dissertation topic to my department for approval. Pass with no revisitions
Brandeis University - Comprehensive Examination
Tested on history and theories in the anthropological subfields of masculinity, singlehood, and queer kinship. Pass with no revisitions
2022
Relocate to Philadelphia
Remote Semester while I prepare for my comprehensive exams and apply for external funding for my dissertation fieldwork to begin in the summer/fall of 2023.
Eight weeks in a rural village in Sapa, Vietnam on the border of Yunnan, China to investigate bride trafficking into China.
Brandeis University - The Mandel Center for the Humanities: Dissertation Writing Retreat Grant
Granted $4000 to organize and run a five-day writing intensive workshop in the forest of Vermont with seven Brandeis PhD students from the departments of Anthropology and Sociology.
Granted $800 for summer research on the border for Vietnam and Yunnan, China.
2021
Granted $1000 in funding to purchase a Go-Pro camera for future fieldwork, as well as hire a Chinese research assistant to conduct an environmental scan of Chinese social media to see how rural Chinese bachelors are portrayed in the national imagination.
Created short animated documentary, Imaginary Guanggun, as a final project for a Documenting Culture course. This footage will most likely be incorporated into my dissertation film.
Granted $6000 in summer funding to acquire basic animation skills in Adobe After Effects using tutorials on LinkedIn Learning in order to incorporate more motion graphic elements in future films projects.
Presented at my first conference where I discussed the use of virtual maps in ethnographic interviews. My film, Orgiin Trail was screened in a virtual gallery space.
Moved to Cambridge, MA to begin first semester of PhD program at Brandeis University.
Graduated with a Master's Degree in Anthropology
Attended the Flagship Chinese Institute (FCI), an intensive, eight-week residential language program sponsored by the Chinese Flagship Program at Indiana University. The summer program condenses an entire year of Chinese in just eight weeks.
Accepted into Brandeis University's doctoral program in anthropology with a 5 year fully funded scholarship.
Complete edit of new film, Origin Trail, which experiments with using virtual version of spatial video geonarrative as a means of ethnographic inquiry in the time of a global pandemic. Created as final project Josh Reno's Graphic Anthropology class and applied towards thesis project in the completion of my MA degree.
Passed HSK level III
Classmate, Rebeka Ali, and I created, DOXA, a board game which teaches anthropological theory.
Moved to Binghamton, NY to begin first semester of graduate program in cultural anthrpology at Binghamton University.
Wrote, illustrated, and published a children's book, The Sleeping Baker of the Luberon, with Erin Staub as part of the 8 week alumni program through the Savannah College of Art and Design's satellite campus in Lacoste, France.
Accepted into to Binghamton Universtiy's graduate program in cultural anthropology with a one year fully funded scholarship.