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About
I’m a historian of East Asia, specializing in the history of science and medicine as well as women’s and gender studies. I joined Wheaton College in 2017, after completing my doctorate at Binghamton University. My current book project explores nurses’ experiences as gendered socio-political phenomena in China during the first half of the twentieth century.
Awards and Fellowships
- Wheaton Research Partnership Award, Wheaton College, 2020-2021
- Karen Buhler-Wilkerson Faculty Fellowship, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, 2019
- Arnold Award for Faculty Summer Research, Wheaton College, 2019
- Doctoral Fellowship, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, 2016-2017
- Doctoral Fellowship (declined), Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, Binghamton University, 2016-2017
- China Times Young Scholar Award, China Times Cultural Foundation, 2014-2015
Degrees
Ph.D., Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 2017
M.A., Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 2013
B.A., Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 2011
Teaching Interests
- East Asian History
- Medical History
- Gender and Sexuality in East Asia
As a first-gen college student, I am passionate about the transformative nature of a liberal arts education. In my classes, I invite students to ponder the perplexity, power, and pertinence of history and also hone transferrable skills. At Wheaton, I have developed and taught the following courses:
- HIST 131: Modern East Asia
- HIST 198: Premodern East Asia
- FSEM 101: Lights, Camera, Action! Modern East Asia on Screen
- FYE 101: Contact: Geography, Resources, and Cultures Along Eurasia’s Historical Trade Routes
- HIST 260: History of Japan
- HIST 262: History of China
- HIST 263: History of Korea
- HIST 298: History of Medicine
- HIST 401: History Senior Seminar
Publications
Book Review of Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937–1945, by Nicole Elizabeth Barnes. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. The Journal of Asian Studies 79, no. 1 (2020): 155–56.
Book Review of After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China, by Howard Chiang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. Canadian Journal of History 54, no. 3 (2019): 394-396.
“A Social History of Wartime Nursing Training in Hunan, 1937- 1945,” in David Luesink, William H. Schneider, and Daqing Zhang, eds. China and the Globalization of Biomedicine. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2019.
Book review of Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China, Bridie Andrews and Mary Brown Bullock eds. Bloomington, IL: Indiana University Press, 2014. Social History of Medicine 29, no. 1 (2016): 188-190.