Teaching

I teach upper-year seminars at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, cross-appointed between the Centre for the Study of the United States and the Asian Institute.

Courses taught and designed

Winter 2026

CAS320H1S — Comparative Modernities in Asia: Assembling Modernity
How modern life is assembled through infrastructure, consumer objects, factory discipline, informal innovation, and digital platforms across China and Japan.

Fall 2025

AMS402H1F / CAS490H1F — Interfacing Cultures: AI, Platforms, and Algorithmic Politics Across the Pacific
AI governance, platform ecosystems, and algorithmic politics across the United States and Asia, through STS, digital anthropology, and design theory; scaffolded original-research capstone. Cross-listed across two units.

Winter 2025

AMS312H1S — Approaches to American Studies: Asian-American Tech Dynamics — Interfacing Cultures
How emerging technologies — conversational AI, mobile platforms, algorithmic governance — reshape cultural identities and global power dynamics. Revised and expanded as AMS402 (Fall 2025).

Proposed courses

Ethnographic Methods for Computational Systems
A methods seminar on studying algorithmic systems from the inside: fieldwork design, access, ethics, and evidence for computational environments.

Algorithmic Governance and Everyday Life
Senior research seminar, developed from the book project: how algorithmic systems govern — and are contested — in daily life, from scoring and moderation to AI regulation.