About Me
I'm a historian of Asia-Europe cultural interconnections from the early modern period until the nineteenth century. I received my PhD from the University of Kent and the Freie Universität Berlin, from the Erasmus Mundus Joint doctoral programme "Text and Event in Early Modern Europe".
Following that, I joined the Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt as postdoctoral researcher. My current book project reconstructs forgotten historical practices of collecting and displaying Chinese objects in Europe. I approach historical art collections not only from the perspectives of aesthetics, value or ideology, but as a process of knowledge-making in itself.
I have a B.A. in European Studies from the National University of Singapore and an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in Global History from the University of Vienna and the University of Leipzig.