My research centers on the boundary and border history of West Africa. I explore the demarcations of French West Africa at their creation, and the ways their maintenance, following independence, continue to impact international relations between these nation-states, with a specific focus from Dakar. I am particularly interested in the differential management of the Colonial …
I study nationalism and ideological conflict in Central America during the Cold War, focusing particularly on the relationships that intellectuals and politicians forged within and beyond the region to spread their ideas. My research examines the nation-building projects advanced by these intellectual networks, the influences that shaped them, and their efforts to popularize and implement …
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 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 …
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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 Biography I study twentieth-century international history, with a focus on empire, global governance, and international organizations. My research interests include international law, humanitarianism, slavery and forced labor, colonial administration, and the politics of sovereignty. I am especially interested in how international institutions became sites for producing new languages of reform and rights while also …
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 …
Biography My research focuses on labor history, penal modernity, and the emergence of law enforcement institutions. I specialize in the late Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East, which I approach from a comparative perspective. For my M.A. thesis, I examined the rise of obligatory labor in road construction in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire, with …
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 …