Curriculum Vitae

Teaching positions

Heidelberg (2012-present) (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität)
Assistant Professor, Early China, Institut für Sinologie

Columbia University (2006-2009)
Teaching Assistant/Senior Thesis Advisor

Stanford University (2005)
Teaching Assistant
Received Centennial Teaching Assistant Award for outstanding instruction

Dartmouth College (Fall 1998)
Drill Instructor

Education

Degrees

Ph.D., 2012, Columbia University
East Asian Languages and Cultures (History-East Asia)
Dissertation title: “Between Kin and King: Social Aspects of Western Zhou Ritual”
Fieldwork: CASS/Columbia Joint Archaeological Project, Summer 2007-2008

M.A./M.Phil., 2008, Columbia University
East Asian Languages and Cultures (History-East Asia)
Qualifying fields: Zhou Dynasty Ritual, Classical Chinese Philosophy (Zhuzi baijia), History of
Daoist Religion, Archaeological Approaches to Religion

B.A., 2002, Dartmouth College
High Honors, cum laude
Honors Thesis: “An Analysis of Bundle A of the Guodian Laozi”

Non-degree studies

Peking University, Visiting Scholar, January-May 2011
Independent study in Western Zhou intellectual history

Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, Summer 2005
Tutorials in oracle bone script with Prof. Liu Yuan (non-degree studies)

Stanford University, 2003-2005
Ph.D. in Asian Languages (Chinese); 2 years completed

Service / Research positions

• Graduate advisor, Institut für Sinologie (Sommersemester 2014-present)
• Researcher, CASS/Columbia Joint Archaeological Project, Guicheng, China, Summer 2007-10
• Rapporteur, Early China Seminar, Columbia University, 2007-9
• Conference organizer, Center for Archaeology, Columbia University, 2007
• Developed, organized, and staged the 2007 graduate student conference, “Remembering Landscape:
• Memory and the construction of place,” with colleagues from the Department of Anthropology
• Research Assistant, Byrne Dictionary Project, Dartmouth College, Fall 1998

Fellowships and Awards

• Whiting Foundation Fellowship, 2010-11
• Columbia University/GSAS International Travel Fellowship, Spring 2010
• Weatherhead Ph.D. Training Grant, Summer 2007
• Year-long Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Japanese), Columbia University
• Five-year Ph.D. Fellowship, Columbia University
• Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Japanese), Stanford University
• Five-year Ph.D. Fellowship, Stanford University
• Centennial Teaching Award, Stanford University
• Wing-Tsit Chan Memorial Prize for Excellence in Asian Studies (thesis prize), Dartmouth College
• High Honors awarded for Honors Thesis, Dartmouth College
• Pray Modern Language Prize (Chinese), Dartmouth College