I'm a scholar of religion, social movement and revolution. Based at York University in Toronto, I'm writing a PhD on the state's institutionalization of Buddhist monastics in Southeast Asia for which I have been awarded the American Council of Learned Societies' 2024 Robert H N Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Buddhist Studies. I'm also co-chair of Burma Studies Group under the Association for Asian Studies, and student director (2022-24) of EIR of the American Academy of Religion. For spring and summer 2025, I am a visiting scholar at Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program, conducting archival research.