• Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 2018
• M.A., History, Harvard University, 2013
• B.A. (Hons), History, University of Chicago, 2009

• Associate Scholar, Harvard University, 2019–
• Visiting Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), 2020

Books

• The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)

Articles

• “The Meanings of a Port City Boundary: Calcutta’s Maratha Ditch, c. 1700–1950,” Past & Present (January 2022)
• “A Decade of Controversy: Sources on the Demarcation of Calcutta, 1784-94,” Historical Research, vol. 95, no. 269 (August 2022), pp. 471–480
• “New Lights on Raja Krishnachandra and Early Hindu-European Intellectual Exchange,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 3rd ser., vol. 31, no. 1 (January 2021), pp. 159–171
• “Anxiety, Chaos, and the Raj,” The Historical Journal, vol. 63, no. 2 (June 2020), pp. 777–787
• “Plunder and Prestige: Tipu Sultan’s Library and the Making of British India,” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 43, no. 3 (June 2020), pp. 478–492
• “Empire and Enlightenment in Three Letters from Sir William Jones to Governor-General John Macpherson,” The Historical Journal, vol. 62, no. 2 (June 2019), pp. 541–551
• “The Crisis of Liberal Reform in India: Public Opinion, Pyrotechnics, and the Charter Act of 1833,” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 52, no. 6 (November 2018), pp. 2013–2055
• “William Robertson and Scientific Theism,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 10, no. 3 (November 2013), pp. 519–542

Essays

• “The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform,” Public Domain Review (August 2016); republished by The Paris Review, Scroll.in 

Other

• Book reviews for Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Reviews in History, Sehepunkte

• Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Early Career Member, Royal Historical Society
• Board Member, East Asian Intellectual History Network

• Multi-Year Research Grant, University of Macau, 2023–2024
• Multi-Year Research Grant, University of Macau, 2022–2023
• Library History Essay Award, Library and Information History Group, 2021
• Startup Research Grant, University of Macau, 2018–2021
• Max Weber Fellowship, European University Institute, 2018–2019 (declined)
• Bernadotte E. Schmitt Research Grant, American Historical Association, 2018
• Jeffrey Cheah Travel Grant, Jeffrey Cheah Foundation, 2017
• Krupp Foundation Research Fellowship, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 2015–2016
• Mughal Persian Language Scholarship, American Institute of Indian Studies, 2015
• Dissertation Travel Grant, North American Conference on British Studies, 2014–2015

• History of knowledge
• History of political thought
• British East India Company
• Global and transregional history
• East-West interactions
• Modern and early modern South and Southeast Asia
• Modern and early modern Britain and British Empire