Yirui Ma
Position title: TA: Hist Sci 201 with Professor Florence Hsia
Email: yma352@wisc.edu
Address:
Advisor: Judd Kinzley
Mailbox: 4070 Mosse Humanities Building
Biography
I am a PhD candidate studying the environmental history of early modern and modern China. My work investigates how the state and the market have imagined, organized, and governed multispecies relations and environmental uncertainty across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My current project traces how organisms that resist full domestication yet are highly valued in their wild form have shaped both the making of modern China and the global markets for “healthy” foods. I am also interested in digital humanities and borderlands history.
Education
M.A., UCLA
B.A., Xiamen University
Field
- East Asian History
MA Title
- Encompassing Boundaries of the Ming and Early Qing Liaodong
Courses Taught as TA
- HISTORY 103: Survey of Chinese History
- HISTORY of SCIENCE 201: The Origins of Scientific Thoughts
- HISTORY of SCIENCE/ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 213: Global Environmental Health
- HISTORY 308: Introduction to Buddhism