He earned his PhD from the History of Architecture and Urbanism Program at Cornell University in 2012. Research for his dissertation, “Building Siam: Leisure, race, and nationalism in Thai architecture” was supported by grants from the Social Science Research Council and the Mellon Graduate Fellowship in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell among others. Recent articles and chapters have appeared in the Journal of Urban History, TDSR, the Oxford Handbook of Contemporayr Buddhism, and Arch*Pop. His current research examines the sites of built and unbuilt utopias in 20th-century Bangkok.