People Type: History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Wang, Yu-Hsuan “Jade”

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 …

Wathen, Emma

Biography Biography I study disability and reproduction in the twentieth-century United States, drawing from the fields of disability studies, U.S. history, history of medicine, and gender and sexuality studies. My dissertation explores parenting with a disability in the postwar United States amid the expansion of family policing systems and the growth of the disability rights …

Xu, Yuji

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 …

Zhang, Zheng

I am currently interested in the history of computing in China, particularly the development of China’s domestically produced computers from the 1960s to the 1990s. Before coming to UW–Madison, I worked as a product manager and marketing manager in China’s tech industry for several years. Prior to that, I received my master’s degree in Journalism …