Biography Biography I am a Ph.D. Candidate specializing in Late Imperial and Modern China. I am interested in the intersection of natural resource management, economic history, and state capacity. My current dissertation investigates the administration of mineral resources and related criminal activities in 18th and 19th century South China. I am interested in the historical …
Biography Biography I’m an East Asian historian and Koreanist. My research has centered on postwar Korea, focusing on labor, class formation, and social activism amidst the “miracle” of its rapid industrial development. Before arriving to the history department of UW–Madison, I had been a long term resident of Korea, beginning with a stint as an …
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Biography Biography I am studying the Japanese legal modernization process within the framework of the nineteenth-century global order and international law. In my M.A. thesis, I focused on the Japanese research on the Mixed Courts of Egypt as a part of the Meiji government’s efforts to abolish extraterritorial treaties. My research interests include institutional transformations …
Biography I am a PhD student specializing in the cultural and social history of late imperial China. With a background in archaeology and art history, I approach the imperial past through a combination of archival research and object-based study. My current research centers on the cultural responses to the changing material world in Ming-Qing China. …
Biography 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 …
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Biography Biography Edwin Pietersma (he/him) is a History PhD student originally from the Netherlands but trained in the Netherlands, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand. He specializes in the modern and colonial history of Japan, Siam/Thailand, and the Dutch East-Indies/Indonesia between the 1840s and 1942. In particular, he is interested in questions of migration versus nation-state and …
Biography Biography My research focuses on the link between music, sound, and the history of democratic politics in South Korea. Education M.A., History, University of Wisconsin–Madison M.A., East Asian Studies, University of Toronto B.A., History and East Asian Studies, University of Toronto Field Selected Awards Professional Affiliations
Biography Biography I study Japanese history, with a focus on the intersection between the ancient and the modern. I am interested in understanding how nineteenth-century Japan dealt with its idealized past and tried to make sense of it in modern terms. Education M.A., Japanese Humanities, Kyushu University, 2022 M.A., Archaeology, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do …