- Professor of History (Ph.D. Stanford, 1990)
- Asian Studies Program Director (2009-2015)
- Director, Oregon Consortium for International and Area Studies (2013-2015)
- Editorial Board, Twentieth Century China (2008-present)
- Modern China Editor, Journal of Asian Studies (2004-2006)
- American Historical Association, Progam Committee (2015)
- Association for Asian Studies, China Council (2013-2016)
Major Fellowships, Grants, Honors
- Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies (2023)
- National Humanities Center (2020-2021)
- Faculty Excellence Award, UO (2020)
- Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Research Fellowship (2018)
- Membership (fellowship), Institute for Advanced Study, SHS, Princeton (2015-2016).
- Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard (2012-13).
- Faculty Research Award, Office of Research, UO (2014-2015)
- Faculty Excellence Award, UO (2007)
- Visiting Researcher, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (Fall 2005)
- Petrone Fellow (2004)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2003)
- Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études, Paris (June 1999)
- Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (1998-99)