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Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of History
- Associate ProfessorFaculty of Arts and Science, Department of History
- University of Toronto, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George St, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada
BIO
I am Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, St. George. I earned my Ph.D. in 2014 from the History Department at Stanford University. My book about explicit sexual representations in Chinese print commodities, REINVENTING LICENTIOUSNESS: PORNOGRAPHY AND MODERN CHINA (2021), is available via Cornell University Press. EVERYDAY LIVES IN CHINA'S COLD WAR MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX VOICES FROM THE SHANGHAI SMALL THIRD FRONT, 1964-1988, a co-authored book of oral histories from Mao-era military-industrial complexes (1960s-80s) designed for teaching and reference appeared in 2022. Other research interests include the social history of suicide, gender and sexuality, material culture, food, and popular media--in late imperial and twentieth-century China as well as in a broader world-historical perspective.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Department of History, Toronto, CanadaJul 2014 - Jul 2020
- Associate ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Department of History, Toronto, CanadaJul 2020 - present
DEGREES
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), HistoryStanford University, Stanford, United StatesJun 2014
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History, East Asian Studies, Creative WritingPrinceton University, Princeton, United StatesJun 2008
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Stanford Humanities and Sciences Ph.D. Fellowship/AssistantshipStanford University, Stanford, United States2008 - 2014Postdoctoral Fellowship
LANGUAGES
- Chinese (Mandarin)Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- JapaneseCan read and understand
- FrenchCan read and understand
- Spanish; CastilianCan read and understand
AVAILABILITY
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision