Department of History

Yu-Hsuan "Jade" Wang

Position title: TA: Hist Sci 150 with Lecturer Lucy Yang

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Email: yuhsuan.wang@wisc.edu

Address:
Advisor: Devin Kennedy
Mailbox: 5113 Mosse Humanities Building

Yu-Hsuan Wang headshot

Biography

My research focuses on the history of dairy, technology, and public health in Cold War Taiwan. By examining U.S.-supported dairy development in postwar Taiwan, I analyze how quality control infrastructures transformed cows and fresh milk into a calculable foundation of nutritional governance.

Building on my earlier work on Japanese colonial Taiwan, where my MA thesis explored how milk became a tool for constructing idealized modern bodies, my current project shifts the focus to the Cold War period and the infrastructural management of animal and human health.

Before joining UW–Madison, I earned a master’s degree in human geography and conducted three years of research in science and technology studies (STS) at National Taiwan University.

Although I spend much of my time studying dairy cows, I am not actually a big milk drinker.

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

Courses Taught as TA

  • Hist Sci 201: The Origins of Scientific Thought (Fall 2025)
  • STS 201: Where Science Meets Technology (Spring 2025)
  • Hist Sci 150: The Digital Age (Fall 2024)