Other projects

In addition to my first book project, some of my other key research interests and past projects include:

• Asian American history and Asian American agricultural history, particularly Japanese diasporic and transpacific networks in early twentieth-century Californian floriculture 

• Women's history, wine history, and the politics of the reproductive health in the late twentieth-century U.S. 

• American state-sponsored bioprospecting in early twentieth-century China 

• Oral history and community-based history

I also write as a public intellectual connecting areas of my research to contemporary issues:

• "'A basis of permanent peace': twentieth-century lessons of global war and the twenty-first century promise of climate reparations," April 12, 2023: an essay for the Stanford Humanities Center's Arcade open access digital salon connecting some of my research findings to implications for the global politics of climate justice today.

• "To Confront the Climate Crisis, Universities Must Refuse Fossil Fuel Industry Funding," Common Dreams, September 27, 2022: an op-ed I co-wrote with fellow members of groups of alumni, staff, students, and faculty at Stanford and Harvard calling on American universities to reject the unethical influence of fossil fuel industry funding as they launch new climate centers.