About our staff

Previously, I was Assistant Professor of History at Yale-NUS College in Singapore after postdoctoral fellowships at Yale University and for the Flemish Research Foundation at the University of Antwerp. My work, publications, and teaching primarily concern the European, Asian and global sexual pasts, queer history, reproductive politics, and the intersections of biopolitics and religion.

Research Fellow, University of Antwerp (by courtesy)

Research Fellow, National University of Singapore (by courtesy)

Summary of research interests

• Asia
• Europe
• North America

• Comparative & Global History
• Culture
• Gender
• Politics
• Religion

• Nineteenth Century
• Twentieth Century & After

I'm interested in the European, trans-Atlantic, Asian and global histories of sexuality in the 19th and the 20th centuries. These days, I am particularly concerned with global institutions, the policisation of gender and sexuality after World War 2, and the rise of today's culture wars.

I am presently working on a project called The Globalisation of Sex As a Policy Issue, 1945-1965.

- Unwilling To Know: Homosexuality At The Crossroads of Europe, 1870-1965

- The Globalisation of Sex As a Policy Issue, 1945-1965

- Sex, Religion and Politics in Singapore, 1945-1971