I am a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Institute Fellow at the University of St. Andrews’s Institute for Transnational & Spatial History, Editor for Global History and Theory at the journal History Compass, and a Board of Trustees Member of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. I was a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge for six years, where I Supervised in World History. I was also formerly a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Executive Director of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. My broad research interests center on Southeast Asian and global intellectual history. My current research analyzes the co-constitution of class and relationships with the natural environment over the 19th to the 20th centuries in the Philippines. I earned my Ph.D. with Distinction in Southeast Asian and International History at Yale University. I additionally hold M.Phil and M.A. degrees from Yale University in Southeast Asian and International History and a B.A. with Honors in History from the University of Pennsylvania. My first book, Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912, published by Columbia University Press in June 2020, charts the emplotment of ‘place’ in the proto-national thought and revolutionary organizing of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Filipino thinkers. It analyzes how their Pan-Asian political organizing and their constructions of the place of ‘Asia’ and of the spatial registers of race/Malayness connected them to their regional neighbors undertaking the same work. Asian Place, Filipino Nation unearths precisely what ground the Philippine nation has built itself upon intellectually, excavating its neglected cosmopolitan and transnational Asian moorings in particular, in order to reconnect modern Philippine history to that of Southeast and East Asia, from which it has been historiographically separated. Outside my academic work, I am a Board Member of Lokal Lab in Siargao, an island sustainability NGO in the Philippines. I wrote a monthly opinion column for The Manila Times from 2013-2016. I worked for the Office of the Chief Economist and SERG at the Philippines’s Department of Finance from 2016-2017, shepherding the Economic Development Cluster’s priority reforms, and co-founded PAMPUBLIKO, a political discussion lab that seeks to reorient mainstream Philippine discourse away from personality politics and toward substantive policy discussion.