Kelly, Marcus
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Biography Biography I first subscribed to my Teochew Chinese immigrant identity from the periphery of Thai-Lao polities before acquiring academic uniforms of anthropologist and historian of Theravada Buddhism and mainland Southeast Asia. This background encompasses my primary attention towards border, migration, religion and ethnic identity. My extensive fieldwork experience at Buddhist sites in India and …
Biography I am interested in how histories are remembered and taught in settler colonial nations. Because of this, I traveled to Aotearoa New Zealand to complete my Masters in 2024, focusing on methods of historical construction in a colonial context. I am invested in bottom-up histories and my latest research interest centers around ideas of …
I hold a BA in History from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Latin American and Caribbean History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. I was a research fellow through the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (2023–2025), participated in the Digital Humanities Scholars in Residence program at UPR …
Biography Biography I am a Ph.D. Candidate broadly interested in the histories of race, slavery, and colonialism in the early modern Atlantic world. My research explores the relationship between slavery and state development with a particular emphasis on the responsibilities of minor local officials in colonial New England. My dissertation asks how slavery and Atlantic …
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 scholar of intellectual history and religion in transnational perspective. My research is primary focused on modern France and its empire, with particular attention to colonial ventures in East and Southeast Asia. My dissertation examines the place of Christian missionaries — Catholic as well as Protestant — and other religious actors …
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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