China's engagement with the United Nations' human rights mechanisms
MA, Stanford University; JD, Stanford Law
comparative studies of social transformation Social transformation, labor politics, and the changing labor relations among the state, trade union, managers and workers in China.
PhD in political science from the University of Chicago in 1993
the Yeung Family Distinguished Visiting Professor in the East Asian Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University in July 2018 served as a professor in the department of political science at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou of China between 2004 and 2017 Senior Research Fellow in the China Centre (Maritime), Southampton Solent University of England in 2017 Visiting Research Fellow at the Labor...
Family and Public Policy, Immigration, Social Demography, Social Inequality, Sociology of Education, Quantitative Methods, Advanced Statistics migration, sociology of education, and public policy to the Chinese society Rural-to-urban migration and its impact on social inequality in China
Ph.D. 1990 Sociology, University of Chicago M.A. 1985 Sociology, Sun Yat-sen University, China B.A. 1982 English, South China Normal University, China
2003-present Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University 2015-present Director, Hopkins Population Center, Johns Hopkins University 1996-present Faculty Associate, Hopkins Population Center, Johns Hopkins University 2001-present Research Affiliate, Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University and University of Chicago 1998-2003 Associate Professor, Department of S...
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literatures and cultures; modernities and modernisms; comparative literature, aesthetics, and intellectual history; aesthetics and justice; post-secularism; world literature
Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University BA and an MA in French literature and culture from the University of Tokyo.
Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park In 2014-15, Junior Fellow in the University of Chicago Society of Fellows
Modern East Asia, especially socioeconomic, urban history
Columbia University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1980. Ph.D. dissertation: "Urban Society in Late Imperial China: Hankow, 1796-1889." Awarded "Distinction." East Asian Institute, Certificate, 1976. Wesleyan University (CT), Department of English, A.B., 1967.
John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History, Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University,1994-present. Professor,1989-94. Associate Professor, 1985-89. Assistant Professor, 1982-85: Chair of History Department, 2008-present. Director of East Asian Studies Program, School of Arts and Sciences, 1995-2008. Acting Chair of History Department, Fall 2002. Director of Undergraduate Studi...
1) Globalization and Neoliberalism 2) Development 3) Nationalism 4) Contentious Politics 5) Comparative-historical and Quantitative Methods 6) China and East Asia Capitalist development, state formation, and protest in China and Asia at large from global and long-term historical perspectives
2004 Ph. D.(Sociology), Johns Hopkins University 1999 M.A. (Sociology), State University of New York at Binghamton 1998 M.Phil (Sociology), The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1995 B. Soc. Sc.(Sociology), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2019- Chair, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University 2018- Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy, Department of Sociology and Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University 2018-21 Non-resident researcher, Center for Contemporary China Studies, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan 2016-2017 Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wies...
Chinese diaspora, business networks, colonial empires, nationalism, transnationalism, and maritime East Asia in world-historical and comparative perspectives
2007 Ph.D., Dept. of Sociology (Concentration in World-Historical Social Change) State University of New York at Binghamton 2002 M.A., Dept. of Sociology (Concentration in World-Historical Social Change) State University of New York at Binghamton 1997 M.A., Dept. of Sociology (Concentration in Sociological Theory) National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 1993 B.A., Dept. of Sociology (Concent...
January 2018-, Associate Research Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University July 2011- December 2017, Senior Lecturer & Assistant Research Scientist (amended in 2012, promoted to associate in 2016), Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University Sept. 2007- June 2011, Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Asian History& Director of East Asian Studies Minor Department of Huma...
Industrial relations in China Chinese politics Labor process and division of labor Transitions to and from socialism The Chinese Cultural Revolution Agrarian transformation in China
PhD, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (2003). Dissertation: Dismantling and Rebuilding Class: The Failure of the Communist Experiment in China (Rogers Brubaker and Michael Mann, advisors) MA, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (1998) BA, History, University of Illinois at Chicago (1995)
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology (2003-present) Professor (2020) Associate Professor (2011) Assistant Professor (2003) Director, East Asian Studies Program (2011–2013) Koç University, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Visiting Scholar (Spring 2020) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Visiting Associate Professor (Fall 2019) Ningxia University, Visiting Rese...
East Asian Studies Political Science
Bureaucracy, institutions, Leninist party systems, policy making and implementation, US-China Relations, Sino-Khmer relations
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: PhD (2001), BA (1987), Political Science
Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), 2018-Present: George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies https://www.sais-jhu.edu/users/amertha1 Director of the China Studies Program https://www.sais-jhu.edu/content/china-studies#overview Director of SAIS China https://www.sais-jhu.edu/content/china-studies#sais-china Cornell University: Professor,...
History of Chinese science and medicine; history of epidemics, disease, and public health in China; disease maps in East Asia; Chinese arts of memory; the healers body in Chinese medicine; late imperial Chinese cultural and social history.
the history of China from 1600 to the present Qing dynasty (and the Chinese past more generally) in contemporary China History of late imperial and modern China, with particular focus on issues of conflict, commemoration, and literary culture
Stanford University: Ph.D., History, September 1998, Recipient of the Rosenfield Prize for Excellence in Writing as Demonstrated in the Doctoral Dissertation (Awarded in 1999). Dissertation Title: Site and Sentiment: Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou. Principal Advisors: Harold L. Kahn, Lyman P. Van Slyke Primary Field: East Asia since 1600 M.A. conferred: January 1994. Yale University: B...
Director, East Asian Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University, July 2017- present. Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, Johns Hopkins University, July 2011- June 2017. Professor, History Department, Johns Hopkins University, July 2014-. Associate Professor, History Department, Johns Hopkins University. July 2006 – June 2014. Assistant Professor, History Department, Johns Hopkins U...