He received his Ph.D. in the colonial history of Korean and Japanese Buddhism from Harvard University in 2007. His present research concerns colonial, modern, and contemporary Korean Buddhism from a transnational perspective. He is the author of Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013). His second book, under contract with Harvard University Asia Center, is tentatively titled A Transnational History of Colonial Korean Buddhism, 1910–1945. Lunch will be served.