Finding Agency Beneath Others' Shadows
A study of (especially Taiwanese) prospective international students and how they navigate decisions about their academic careers and life courses in the face of global economic instability and an increasingly multipolar world order.
The Scholar-State Relationship and the Political Evolution of China and Taiwan
A critical review of historical analyses, plus close reading of primary texts, analyzing how the precarious relationship between the intelligentsia and the regime may have shaped the political evolution of late Qing China, the ROC, and the PRC.
[on hiatus] Rhetoric and Policy Recommendations in Think Tank Reports on PRC-Five Eyes Exchanges
A text analysis of China (PRC)-facing rhetoric versus policy recommendations with respect to China-West educational and research collaboration. (Methods have been devised, but the study will be revisited at a later date.)
Teaching Writing amid the Generative AI Push in Academia
A participatory action research endeavor in which I am devising ways to address the risks of students' de-skilling and creative languishing inherent in the propagation of generative AI use in higher education.