education
2026
yale university
↳ ph.d. in american studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies
↳ graduate certificate in ethnicity, race, and migration

2022
yale university
↳ mphil & m.a. in american studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies

2020
yale university
↳ b.a. in english (with distinction) and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies (with distinction)

awards & recognitions
2024
↳ john f. enders research grant, graduate school of arts and sciences, yale university
↳ fund for lesbian and gay studies (flags), lgbt studies program, yale university
↳ jackson brothers fellowship, beinecke rare book & manuscript library, yale university

2023
↳ dean’s emerging scholar research award, graduate school of arts and sciences, yale university
↳ ford predoctoral fellow, ford foundation, national academies of sciences, engineering, and medicine
↳ bbq+ pre-dissertation academic fellowship, the center for black, brown, and queer studies
↳ graduate student paper award winner, association for the study of literature and environment
↳ cornell migrations summer institute award, “history and memory: migration, militarism, and u.s. empire”
↳ honorable mention, english postgraduate essay prize, english: journal of the english association, oxford

2022
↳ selected model paper in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, university writing contest, poorvu center for teaching and learning, yale university
↳ mellon pedagogy fellowship, center for the study of race, indigeneity, and transnational migration, yale university
↳ exemplary social justice contribution award, asian american cultural center, yale university

2021
↳ graduate and professional student award, asian american cultural center, yale university

2020
↳ a. bartlett giammati fellowship, department of american studies, graduate school of arts and sciences, yale university
↳ gala senior essay prize, program in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, yale gay and lesbian alumni/ae association, yale university
↳ john hubbard curtis prize (x3), department of english, yale university
↳ sholom and marcia herson scholarship prize, department of english, yale university
↳ steve adams prize, silliman college, yale university
↳ world war ii memorial prize, phelps association, yale university
↳ mellon fellowship, humanities institute, schomburg center for research in black culture, new york public library

2019
↳ first-place in the norton writer’s prize, w. w. norton & company
↳ selected model paper for literary analysis, university writing contest, poorvu center for teaching and learning, yale university
↳ associate fellowship, institute for recruitment of teachers, phillips academy