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Cultural and social history of late imperial and modern China; gender and sexuality; legal history; masculinity studies; ethnicity and the state; everyday life
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, East Asian Civilizations (2023-25)

PhD'23 (East Asian history), University of Chicago

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cultural and social history of late imperial and modern China; gender and sexuality; legal history; masculinity studies; ethnicity and the state; everyday life

DISSERTATION

Women’s Violent Crime and a Crisis of Weak Patriarchy in Late Imperial China

AWARD

2022 Buchanan Prize for Best Graduate Essay, East Asia at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs for “What She Had: Property, Work, and the Imperative of Autonomy for Wives in the Qing."