Morality and Identity; Youth and Education; Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Citizenship; Governance; Civil Society; Psychological Anthropology; China; Mosuo (Na)
PhD in Cultural Anthropology, Boston University, 2015
Migration; race; labor; Asian American Studies; modern and late Qing Chinese literature; late Qing nationalism; late Qing history; international trade routes in the Age of Empire
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Modern China; History of Capitalism Chinese History, Financial History, Spatial History, Network Studies
PhD, University of California, San Diego
East Asian History; International History; Economic History
China; Capitalism; Postsocialism; Gender; Political corruption and organized crime; Buddhist revival in China
PhD, University of Chicago, 2008
Chinese socio-religious history, Daoism, popular religion, ritual studies, women’s studies
Ph.D., Asian Studies, The University of British Columbia, 2004. Dissertation: “Zhenwu: The Cult of a Chinese Warrior Deity from the Song to the Ming Dynasties (960-1644)”. Thesis committee: Drs. Daniel L. Overmyer (advisor), Nam-lin Hur, and Alexander Woodside M. A., History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994. Thesis: “Daoist Examinations and Daoist Schools during the Northern Song Dy...
Department of Religion and Classics, University of Rochester Associate Professor, 2013 – Department of Philosophy and Religion, Rutgers University _Camden campus Associate Professor, 2011 – 2013 Assistant Professor, 2005 – 2011 Center for General Education, Tajen Institute of Technology, Taiwan / ROC Assistant Professor, 2004 – 2005 Religious Studies Program, Washington University Visiting Lect...
Modern China East Asian History
PhD, University of California, San Diego, 2009+E5
Asian History
PhD, University of Rochester; MS in Education, Nazareth College
MA, Oklahoma State University