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Pick One: The Citizenship Debate of the Chinese-Indonesians, 1945-1967
Written for History 86Q, Origins of Antisemitism, in 2022; while not directly touching upon antisemitism, my paper examines the theme of diaspora and how it affects minority/majority group dynamics, discrimination, and lived experiences of emigrants. I got to interview my grandparents for this piece :)
When Capitalism and Communism Coexist
Written for German 266, Questions of Political Theology, taught by Professor Russel Berman and Peter Thiel.
At The Speed of Mission: Recommendations on Innovation in Technology Contracting & Acquisition
Policy memo written for the DoD on creating an alternative funding pool for the near-term delivery of key technologies, leveraging both debt and equity vehicles in partnership with private capital. Our memo was used as the reference project for future students of INTL 340, taught by Steve Blank and Joe Felter.
To what extent is it possible to reconstruct the historical Muhammad?
What challenges confront the historian of the Justinianic plague?
Written for the Oxford tutorial, The Near East in the Age of Justinian and Muhammad from 527 to c.700
Was there an ‘industrial revolution’, and where should we look for it?
Was political economy separable from religion in nineteenth-century Britain?
I self designed an Oxford tutorial to examine how industrialization and capitalism emerged, as well as how intellectual thinkers in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries approached these phenomena, how they reacted to them, and how they influenced one another’s thinking. I focused on the patterns of industrialization, Christian economics, and theories of capitalism.