Curriculum Vitae
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in History (ABD) In Progress
Dissertation Project: “The Spirit of San Francisco: Anticolonial Liberal Internationalism and the Founding of the United Nations” (Prospectus Approved, October 2022)
Dissertation Committee: Prof. Klaus Larres (Advisor and Chair), Prof. Michael Morgan, Prof. Michael Tsin, Prof. Susan Pennybacker, Prof. Liu Xiaoyuan (University of Virginia)
Comprehensive Exam Fields: Global Cold War; Empire, Imperialism, and Decolonization; Human Rights
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Master of Arts in History Conferred May 2021
Thesis: “Willy Brandt and China: Ostpolitik and West German Relations with Beijing, 1968-1972” (Thesis Defense Approved, November 2020)
Committee: Prof. Klaus Larres (Advisor), Prof. Michael Morgan, Prof. Michael Tsin
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelor of Arts in History and German Studies Conferred May 2019
University of Virginia
Honors: Dean’s List (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019)
Publications
“Decolonizing International Law: Wellington Koo’s Dissents Against Empire From the International Court of Justice Bench”
forthcoming in Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions.
“Prayuth Chan-o-cha: from the barracks to the ballot box (born 1954),”
in Klaus Larres, ed., Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power across Global Politics (London and New York: Routledge, 2021).
Review of Olga Velikanova, Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism: Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936,
in Traces 9 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).
Presentations
“The Hall of Peace: Global Governance in Cold War Bangkok, 1946-1967.”
“Space, Race, and the Global South at the U.N.”
Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
University of Toronto, Canada.
15 June 2024
“Decolonizing International Law: China’s Wellington Koo’s Dissents Against Empire From the International Court of Justice Bench.”
Decolonization’s Discontents Workshop
Harvard University and Tufts University, United States.
22-23 September 2023
“Worldmaking from the East: Asian Contributions to the Postwar International Order.”
UNC-Bristol Global History of (Anti-)Colonialism Workshop
Hong Kong History Centre at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
17-18 May 2023
“Solving the German Question in China: Policymaking along the Cold War’s Western and Eastern Borders.”
Cold War Borderlands in Europe and Northeast Asia, 1944-1991
University of Udine, Cold War Studies Program at Harvard University, and Friuli Storia in Udine and Gorizia, Italy
9-12 March 2023
“The First Signatory of the UN Charter: China’s Influence on the Postwar International Order”
“Making and Breaking Global Order in the Twentieth Century”
Institute for History, Leiden University, Netherlands
14-15 October 2022
“Panda Baer-liners: China’s Fluffy and Friendly Diplomacy in Cold War Germany”
“Institutional Approaches to East and West Germany”
Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Virtual/Indianapolis
2 October 2021
“Actually Inflammable Socialism: Everyday Life Objects of East Germany”
“Inflammatory Objects: What We Keep and Why”
Institute of the Humanities and Global Culture, University of Virginia
13 April 2017
Other Writing
Contributor to H-Diplo Forum 2023-1: “Making and Breaking Global Order across the Twentieth Century,” Alanna O’Malley, ed., 6 July 2023, https://hdiplo.org/to/Forum-2023-1.
“Inequity in travel restrictions handicaps those legally traveling from ‘global south’,” 24 January 2023, Thai Enquirer, https://www.thaienquirer.com/47573/global-inequity-in-travel-restrictions-handicaps-those-legally-traveling-from-global-south/.
“Thailand’s dependence on tourism means losing passport wars,” 24 January 2023, Thai Enquirer, https://www.thaienquirer.com/47579/thailands-dependence-on-tourism-means-losing-passport-wars/.
“Denying Ukraine’s Right to Exist: Putin’s Attack on the International Order,” 25 February 2022, Krasno Analysis: Weekly Spotlight, No.7/2022, https://www.krasnoevents.com/uploads/1/1/6/6/116679777/krasno_analysis_-_thothaveesansuk_-_lottaz_-_ukraine_debate_-_feb.2022.pdf.
Invited Talks and Contributions
Graduate Student Discussant at the 26th Annual New Faces Conference, 19 September 2025, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Chapel Hill, NC.
Fishbowl on the State of Higher Education, sponsored by SHAFR Committee on Access, Representation, and Equity (CARE) and SHAFR Graduate Student Committee, 26 June 2025, at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA.
Graduate Student Discussant at the 23rd Annual New Faces Conference, 7 October 2022, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Chapel Hill, NC.
Graduate Student Discussant at the 22nd Annual New Faces Conference, 18 September 2021, Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Virtual.
Fellowships and Awards
Dissertation Completion Fellowship – The Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Dissertation Completion Award – Bringing Southeast Asia Home Initiative, Carolina Asia Center
PhD Scholarship – Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Werner P. Friederich Off-Campus Dissertation Research Fellowship – The Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill
James L. Peacock III Summer Research Fellowship – The Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill
Kyser Dissertation Research Fellowship – Department of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
Capper Fellow in Intellectual History – Triangle Intellectual History Seminar
Graduate Fellow – Triangle Institute for Security Studies
Graduate Fellow – Parr Center for Ethics at UNC-Chapel Hill
Teaching Experience
As Teaching Assistant:
The Olympic Games: A Global History (Spring 2020, Fall 2021; Lectures by Prof. Matthew Andrews)
The World Since 1945 (Fall 2020; Lectures by Prof. Eren Tasar)
The Global Cold War (Spring 2021; Lectures by Prof. Michael Morgan)
A History of Lies, Conspiracies, and Disinformation (Spring 2022; Lectures by Prof. Chad Bryant)
Global Relations and Public History (Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2024; Taught by Prof. Klaus Larres)
As Research Consultant:
The British Empire and Political Culture: Dissent, Colonialism, and Independence (Spring 2022; Taught by Prof. Susan Pennybacker)
As Apprentice Teacher:
The World Since 1945 (Fall 2019; Lectures by Prof. Eren Tasar)
Public History
“GDR Living Room: Digital Collection of Ordinary Life Objects in East Germany”
Digitized and launched a digital collection to preserve artefacts and documents from the East German Living Room project online. The digital collection is accompanied by a crowd-sourced transcription project for the documents. (UVA)
“The East German Living Room: Everyday Life Behind the Berlin Wall”
Curated objects towards the exhibit of everyday life objects in East Germany in a group of undergraduates under the direction of Prof. Kyrill Kunakhovich (UVA)
Professional Development
Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft, William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, July 2023.
Archives as Data: An Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities for Archivists and Historians, History Lab at Columbia University, May 2023.
Work Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (August 2019 - present)
Graduate Program Assistant for the North Carolina German Studies Workshop, German Historians in North America after 1945: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarly Contributions (March 2021)
Undergraduate Program Assistant for the Transatlantic Partnership on Memory & Democracy between the Center for German Studies at the University of Virginia and the Heinrich Böll Sitftung (January – April 2019)
Languages
English: Bilingual Proficiency
Thai: Bilingual Proficiency (Native)
German: Advanced Proficiency
Mandarin Chinese: Advanced Proficiency
French: Basic Reading Knowledge
Leadership and Service
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Member, Conference Committee (2025-2027)
Member, Graduate Student Committee (2025-2027)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Co-Organizer: Teach-in on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (March 2022)
The Graduate Historical Society: International Student Coordinator (2021-22), Social Chair (2020-21)
The Graduate and Professional Student Federation: Senator for History (2020-21)
University of Virginia
UVAClub of the Triangle (Local Alumni Association): Board Member and Social Media Chair (2022-2023)
The Washington Literary Society and Debating Union: Alumni Board of Trustees Voting Member (2021-2023)
Professional Affiliations
American Historical Association
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
German Studies Association