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I took my undergraduate studies in European Studies in 2012 at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines. My specialized track within my major was international relations, while at the same time, I took a minor in history, as well as a required minor in German. I graduated in 2016 before moving to Canada with my family the next year. I then took a post-graduate certificate program in Museum and Cultural Management at Centennial College from 2018 to 2019, before entering into a masters’ program in history in 2021.

I am currently a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr. Andrew Jainchill. My dissertation will analyze the ideas that influenced the Congress of Vienna. Its focus will be on Friederich Gentz, secretary to Austrian diplomat Prince Metternich, one of the major figures of the Congress. He was a student of Immanuel Kant and translated Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France into German. My dissertation will explore the presence of Burkean and Kantian ideas in the Congress, as filtered through Gentz, and how they were circulated during the negotiations. Through my research, I aim to present the Congress as an intellectual forum that circulated ideas about remaking international order that still affect the present.

My general interest is the history of international relations, with a focus on applying transnational and global perspectives to research. In particular, through my research on the Congress of Vienna, I aim to provide transnational perspectives on the intellectual history of international relations. Other fields of interest include early modern European history, intellectual history, as well as cultural and religious history.