I wanted to write to share with you all the wonderful things that the History Department and its graduate program have made possible for me in my career. I received by MA in US History in 2008 and BA in 2006. 

During that time, I greatly benefited from courses taught by Dr. Gregory Bruess, Dr. Wallace Hettle, and Dr. Lou Fenech. I learned so much from them about how to write, engage a public audience, and how to ask questions like a historian. My classes in East Asian history with Dr. Charles Holcombe and Dr. Renier Hesselink have had a big impact on my career and later concentration on Chinese history during my PhD at the University of Kentucky.

I also want to express gratitude to Dr. Charlotte Wells, who was pivotal in helping me develop analytical skills regarding discourse, ideology, and their relations to a text.

By far though, no two people have influenced me as much as Dr. Barbara Cutter and Dr. Brian Roberts. There are no words to adequately express all the fine qualities they have as teachers, writers, thinkers, and researchers. Not a day goes by in my career as a historian and professor that I don't try to recall a memory of something they said or did when I was their student and then I try to do the same thing.

Currently, I am Assistant Professor of World and East Asian History at Hanover College in Indiana. My background shows my stints as a professor for Miami University and several other colleges, as well as my publications and public talks. Recently, my work on the first Chinese in Iowa in the nineteenth century was published in the Annals of Iowa and a talk on the subject was delivered for the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7QyiacNxYM&t=4s