Biography JJ Strange is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology and East Asia History programs at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is currently working on her dissertation project, tentatively titled “Defined by Molecules: Chemical discipline(s) and the reimagining of China’s botanical pharmacy 1900-1960,” which follows the creation and …
Biography Biography I am a PhD candidate working on the history of fisheries science in modern China. I am interested in tracing the delineation of time through celestial movements, environmental changes, and evolutionary processes, and their imprints on human society. I received my BA in History and MS in History of Astronomy in China. Turning …
Biography Biography I am a second-year Ph.D. student focusing on mid-twentieth century US militarism in Korea. I am particularly interested in the sociopolitical life of everyday Koreans during the early Cold War period and what it can illuminate about the geopolitical stakes of citizen-subject making and militarized modernity. My general interests include racial formation, decolonial …
Biography Biography I study Chinese and Tibetan history, with my research focusing on state building and modernization attempts in Tibet during the reign of the 13th Dalai Lama in the early 20th century. I previously specialized in Yuan (1271-1368) and Ming (1368-1644) history, especially focusing on ethnicity, empire, and settler colonialism. Education M.A., History, University …
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 …
Biography I am completing my Ph.D. in East Asian History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a minor in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. Before veering into the history of computing and data studies, I was trained as a scholar specialising in Chinese intellectual and cultural history, critical theory, and modern Chinese literature. My …
Biography Jieon Yoo is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research explores the intertwined histories of empire, decolonization, and the Cold War in East Asia, focusing on postcolonial Korea and its connections with Japan and the United States. She examines how the material and maritime legacies of …