Selected Writing Portfolio

 Features & Profiles

  • “Trump Isn’t the First President to Use His Postmaster for Politics” for Ozy (August 21, 2020)
  • “Can This Mild-Mannered Democrat Defeat Ilhan Omar?” for Ozy (June 14, 2020)
  • “The Acrobatic Immigrant Who Invented Pilates In a Prisoner of War Camp”  for Narratively  (March 19, 2020) 
  • “The Pirate Radio Broadcaster Who Occupied Alcatraz and Terrified the FBI” for Narratively (Jan 16, 2019)
  •  “Sewing Needles Reveal the Roots of Fashion” for Sapiens (January 25, 2019) 

Essays, Reviews & Criticism

  • Review of Jing Wang’s The Other Digital China for Critical Inquiry (August 19, 2020)
  • “An Itch for Things Remove,” for Critical Read (March 30, 2020) 
  • “Interracial Relationships Are Still Rare. But That Could Change” for Ozy (November 8, 2019) 
  • “Portals to Humanity:  Why read Melville? Why read anything?” for Amherst Magazine (March 20, 2019)
  • “Distorting Reality: Does documentary film empower or exploit?” for Amherst Magazine (December 5, 2018)
  • “Fighting for An Education in Bronzeville: A Review” for The Adroit Journal (November 2, 2018) 

  Reported Pieces   

  • “African Students Encounter Racism at Top-tier Chinese University”  for Medium Equality (October 19, 2018)
  • “Songxi’s Siege: Remembering a Rural Chinese Village in WWII” for Medium History (September 2, 2018) 

Letters 

  • “Disturbing the Peace: Letter in Response to Peter Hessler’s Article on Peace Corps’s leaving China,” in New Yorker The Mail (Print: April 6, 2020)