Yu-Hsuan "Jade" Wang

Biography

My research lies at the intersection of the history of technology, food history, and public health. Currently, I focus on the dairy industry in East Asia since the late 19th century, particularly on how milk became a tool for constructing an idealized and modern body in colonial Taiwan. Before joining UW-Madison, I earned a master’s degree in geography and conducted three years of science and technology studies research at National Taiwan University.

Education

M.A., History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, UW-Madison, 2025
M.S., Geography, National Taiwan University, 2020
B.A., Geography, National Taiwan Normal University, 2017
B.F.A., Performing Arts, National Taiwan Normal University, 2017

Field

• History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
• East Asian History

MA Title

• “Becoming a Colonial Dairy Laboratory: Milk, Statecraft, and the Politics of Nutrition in Japanese Taiwan (1895-1945)”

Selected Publications

• Review of Tremblay, Jean-Thomas, Breathing Aesthetics. H-Environment, HNet Reviews. July, 2024. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=60093
• Wang, Yu-Hsuan and Chen, Yi-Chun. “Archiving Nature” TFAM Contemporary Texts: Archive, edited by Lee, Li-Chun. Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Sep.2023.
• “From Floor Plans and Exhibition Galleries It Emerges: An Actor-Network Study of Installation Art in the Making.” Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science Technology and Medicine 35(2022):167-224.
• Wang, Yu-Hsuan and Lin, Shih-Jung “An Information Warfare of Epidemic Prevention that Seeks an Elegant Balance: From Body to Border”, DIGIARTS.Dec.2021.
• “Dance with Artifacts” Youth Literary. Dec.2021.

Selected Awards

• 2025 Holtz Center Top-Up Fellowship
• 2023 Holtz Center Top-Up Fellowship
• 2020 Dean’s Award, M.S. degree in the College of Science, National Taiwan University
• 2019 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Courses Taught as TA

• Hist Sci 150: The Digital Age (Fall 2024)