Job title:
Edward E. Hildebrand Fellow, 2024-25
Department:
Travers Department of Political Science
Bio/CV:
Andrew is a PhD student in the Travers Department of Political Science studying identity politics and immigration.
Andrew's 2024 Hildebrand Fellowship supported a project exploring the role of Chinatown family associations in helping or hindering integration in early Canadian Chinatowns. These organizations aided Chinese immigrants in the face of exclusion and violence, with idiosyncratic membership criteria based on surname. Through conducting interviews and visiting field sites, Andrew learned more about the role of these associations in the lives of early Chinese immigrants to Canada.
Andrew's 2025 Hildebrand Fellowship funded a project exploring the long-term political effects of Canada's Indian residential school system. The schools left a well-documented legacy of physical and psychological harm to survivors and their kin. But another legacy remains under-explored: how did residential schools affect the politics of their surrounding communities? By focusing on this political legacy, Andrew investigated whether residential schools embedded anti-Indigenous beliefs in nearby communities that persist to this day. Fellowship funds supported visits to several Canadian archives that contain school records and testimony, as well as French-language interpretation of school administrators' personal papers.
Andrew holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Toronto, where he received the Suzanne and Edwin Goodman Prize as the top graduating student in the political science specialization. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked for several years in public opinion research.
