Click here to read my article in Eras Journal at the School of Philosophical Historical and International Studies at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). Abstract This article analyses the decay of Anglo-Hanseatic relations in the late sixteenth century as a case study for the larger revolution in commerce and political economy happening in Europe at the … Continue reading City of London v. Strangers: The Fall of the Hanse in England, and the Rise of State-Sponsored Trade [Eras Journal]

Click here to read my article in the Webster Review of International History at the London School of Economics. Abstract This article will address the following questions: “How have people in East and Southeast Asia taken advantage of borders in ways that are not intended or anticipated by their creators? Why have they been able … Continue reading Border Typologies and Their Anti-Imperial Usage in East and Southeast Asia [Webster Review of International History]

Click here to read my article in the Columbia Journal of Asia. Abstract Throughout the 19th century, Japanese elite society simultaneously expanded its interest in affairs beyond its borders while reaffirming its distrust of foreigners and foreignness (jōi). This paper examines the variety of ways in which Japan engaged with the outside in the tumultuous … Continue reading Against a Rupture Narrative: Japanese “Western Learning” from Tokugawa to Meiji [Columbia Journal of Asia]

Click here to read my article in University of Lancaster's emerging historians journal, Epoch Magazine! This article examines rhetoric and diplomacy around the concept of imperial "Splendid Isolation" in Britain under the prime ministership of Lord Salisbury in the 1890s and early 1900s. This 'voguish' diplomacy and rhetoric came to an end with the signing … Continue reading Isolationism in Vogue [Epoch Magazine]

Presented for Reimagining Progression and Retrogression in History: 1st LSE Department of International History Student Conference (June 17, 2022) Public and even historical discourse on modern East Asia often sidelines the consequences of the 1894-1895 Sino-Japanese War on international diplomacy. This paper will highlight the war’s consequences in European imperialism, which led to a fevered … Continue reading The Scramble for China, the “Open Door,” and Anglo-American Diplomacy, 1898-1899

Click here to read my article published in the LSE Webster Review of International History! This paper examines the history of the island of Gotland on the Baltic Sea, as a place of deep geostrategic interest for both German merchant navies and their enemies in the 14th century. This paper will focus on the invasion … Continue reading Changing Tides on the Medieval Baltic [The Webster Review of International History]

Click here to read my article published in the Columbia Journal of History! This study will look at the overlapping histories of the two foremost German organizations that emerged in the Baltic region in the time of the Northern Crusades: the Hanseatic League and the monastic crusading state of the Teutonic Order. The rulers of … Continue reading Baltic Frontiers [Columbia Journal of History Online]