Before landing in Albany, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National University of Singapore. In 2014-2015, he was a Fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies, UT-Austin. He is currently finishing a book manuscript called “Forest without Birds: Rubber Plantations and the Making of Vietnam, 1897-1975,” which explores the transformation of environments, human health, and knowledge through the places and people involved in rubber production in Vietnam. His dissertation on French colonial Vietnam won the 2013 Young Scholar Prize of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science. He has recently published articles in Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, and Science, Technology, and Society. He teaches courses on global environmental history and Asian history.