Xinran Fan

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Email: xinran.fan@wisc.edu

Address:
Advisor: Kathryn Ciancia

Xinran Fan headshot

Biography

I am interested in state-building, imperial transformation, and the development of international law in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe. Now I seek to experiment in international and global history from a socio-legal perspective. My undergraduate thesis examines how mass statelessness generated different imaginations about state sovereignty and legal/political belongings in the interwar era.

Before joining the History Department at UW-Madison, I earned a B.A. in History from Mount Holyoke College, where my coursework focused on Central and Eastern Europe, particularly the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states.

Education

B.A., Mount Holyoke College, summa cum laude, 2025

Field

  • European History

Selected Awards

  • Clio Melpomene Prize (in History), Mount Holyoke College, 2025
  • Anne Stewart Higham Prize, Mount Holyoke College, 2025
  • Wilma J. Pugh Grant, Mount Holyoke College, 2024