Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION           

2016 – present  Ph.D. student/candidate in History, The University of Texas at Austin

Advisor: Huaiyin Li

2015 M.Phil in History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2011 MA. in China Studies, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2010 BA. in History, Nankai University

LANGUAGES & SKILLS

Languages: English, Chinese.

Computational Methods: Python, SQL, Machine Learning and NLP, GIS (QGIS, geopandas, shapely, matplotlib, etc.), Google Cloud Compute, Web-scraping, Basic Statistics and R, Lua(beginner), JavaScript(beginner), Java(beginner).

TRAINING

2020 Teaching Preparation Series Certificate _ UT-Austin

2020       Coursera Certificate for ‘Python for Everybody’ Specialization 

PUBLIC HISTORY/PEDAGOGY

“China Today: Communism for Americans in the 1930s”, Not Even Past (a public history website managed by the UT-Austin history department ), April 5, 2017. https://notevenpast.org/china-today-communism-for-americans-in-the-1930s/

“Introducing Google Forms API with Python," (a guide on the usage of Google Forms and Google Forms API in the classroom setting.)  https://github.com/fguogufe2/GoogleFormsAPITutorial

HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS

(Grant amount marked for inter-school and external only)

Internal 

  2023, Professional Development Award, UT-Austin

2019, Continuing Fellowship, UT-Austin

2018, Summer Research Fellowship, UT-Austin

2017, Traveling Grant, UT-Austin

2016, Recruit Fellowship, UT-Austin

2012-2014, Graduate Studentship, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

2008, Fundamental Scholarship, Nankai University

2007, Fundamental Scholarship, Nankai University

2007. Excellent Student Representative, Nankai University

2007. Excellent Student Representative, Nankai University

2007-2008, Student Exchange Program, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

Inter-school 

2022, Julian Suez Fellowship ($2,000), Center for East Asia Studies, UT-Austin

2023, Brumley Travel Grant ($1,000), LBJ School, UT-Austin

2022 – 2023, Brumley Next Generation Graduate Senior Fellow ($500), LBJ School, UT-Austin

2022, Julian Suez Fellowship ($2,000), Center for East Asia Studies, UT-Austin

2022, Brumley Travel Grant ($1,000), LBJ School, UT-Austin

2021 – 2022, Brumley Next Generation Graduate Senior Fellow ($500), LBJ School, UT-Austin

2021, Julian Suez Fellowship ($3,000), Center for East Asia Studies, UT-Austin

2020 – 2021, Brumley Next Generation Graduate Senior Fellow ($500), LBJ School, UT-Austin

2020, Julian Suez Fellowship ($1,000), Center for East Asian Studies, UT-Austin

2019, Brumley Travel Grant ($1,400), LBJ School, UT-Austin

2019 – 2020, Brumley Next Generation Graduate Fellow ($2,500), LBJ School, UT-Austin

External 

2023, Google Cloud Research Grant ($1,000 Google Cloud Credits)

2022, Stanford East Asia Library Travel Grant ($1,000)

2021- present, George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S. – China Relations Network Fellow

2019, Esherick-Ye Family Foundation Grant ($4,000)

PRESENTATION, GUEST LECTURE & INVITED TALK

•  "Adding Geo Context to History Storytelling: Mapping a Coup in Republican China, 1945”, UT GIS Day, University of Texas at Austin, November 15, 2023

• "Imaging the World from China: Gendered Images of the Three Worlds in the People’s Daily, 1946-2003", Keystone Conference, John Hopkins University, June 16-17, 2023.

• "Imaging the World from China: Gendered Images of the Three Worlds in the People’s Daily, 1946-2003", ACH Annual Conference 2023, Virtual, June 29- July 01, 2023

•  Invited speaker, "Passing the Torch: Issues and Opportunities Facing the Next Generation of U.S.-China watchers," podcast record, June 24, 2021, George H. W. Bush Conference on US-China Relations https://bushchinafoundation.org/passing-the-torch-issues-and-opportunities-facing-the-next-generation-of-u-s-china-watchers

•  Invited Panelist, “Millennial Masterminds of the US-China Relationship,” George H. W. Bush Conference on US-China Relations, Houston, October 24 – 29, 2019. 

•  Invited Panelist, “U.S.-China Emerging Leaders Forum: Chinese Millennials,” China Public Policy Center, UT Austin, December 2018.

• Guest Lecturer, “Tourism in Africa,” Guest Lecturer for Professor Toyin Falola’s HIS 317L The United States and Africa course at UT-Austin, November 2017.  

• “Making Secret Society Legible: Suppressing Reactionary huidaomen 会道门 in Mianchi, Henan Province 1947-1953”, Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA)/ Southwest Conference on Asian Studies (SWCAS) Joint Regional Conference, University of Kansas, October 3-5, 2014.

• “Beyond Texts: Refashioning Folk Arts in the 1950s’ Tianjin” Historical Materials and Methods: The New Horizon for Research on 1950s China workshop, co-sponsored by Harvard – Yenching Institute and History Department of Fudan University, Shanghai, January 2012.

SERVICE

UT Austin Libraries Student Advisory Committee 2022-2023

Judge of Texas History Day 04/15/2023

TEACHING/RESEARCH ASSISTANCE EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant 

The University of Texas at Austin 

HIS 310/AFR310K Introduction to Modern Africa

HIS 315K The United States, 1492-1865

HIS 315L The United States Since 1865

HIS 317L The United States and Africa

Chinese University of Hong Kong

HIST3341 Chinese Education in Singapore and Malaysia in the Twentieth Century

HIST2370 History of Singapore

Research Assistant

Nankai University 

September 2010 – July 2011, Dr. Hou Jie, “Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in YiShi Newspaper and Ta Kung Pao”.

Pre-college Private Course Instructor  

summer 2022