BA Hobart College 1988; MA, PhD Princeton University 1995
Visiting assistant professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1995-96
Early-modern Chinese, Korean, Japanese history
Court culture, Chinese military history, Mongol empire, Koryŏ-Chosŏn history, violence and social order in early-modern East Asia
- Martial Spectacles at the Ming Court, 1368-1568 (Harvard University Asia, forthcoming)
- Empire’s Twilight: Northeast Asia under the Mongols (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009)
- ed. Culture, Courtiers, and Competition: The Ming Court (1368-1644) (Harvard University Asia Center, 2008)
- Bandits, Eunuchs, and the Son of Heaven: Rebellion and the Economy of Violence in Mid-Ming China (University of Hawaii, 2001)
- Essays in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies; Late Imperial China; Journal of Korean Studies; Journal of Central Eurasian Studies; Mingshi yanjiu luncong 明史研究; Oxford World History of Empire; War and the Soldier: A History of Military Employment in Europe, America, the Middle East and Asia, 1600-2000; Chinese and Indian Warfare—From the Classical Age to 1870; Chūgoku Higashi Ajia gaikō kōryū shi no kenkyū 中国東アジア外交交流の研究.
"Banditry and Rebellion in the Capital Region during Mid Ming (1450-1525)"
One year in Beijing 1984-85; two years in Taiwan 1985-86; 1988-89; two years in Japan 1991-93
Translation work (from Chinese and Japanese)