SHAO Dan
Research Interests
- borderland history, legal history, ethnic groups in China, cultures of law, gender and women's history, medical history, Sino-Japanese relationship
Research Description
As a historian, I use my research skills to address problems involving peoples and places on the margins, intending to enrich our understanding of China as a historical concept and to bridge the gap between Asia-based and Europe-based studies on common problems about social boundaries and legal borders. I have endeavored to cross the historical marks that conventionally distinguish “modern” from “pre-modern” and to traverse the existing national borders that define China’s territory. I primarily study the historical roots of contemporary problems, and particularly the problems concerning the making, shifting, and lifting of boundaries and borders in Chinese society.
Education
- PhD, History Department, University of California Santa Barbara
- LLM, College of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distinctions / Awards
- 2003-2004 An-Wang postdoctoral fellowship, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
- 2009-2010 Beckman Fellowship, Center for Advanced Studies, UIUC
- 2011-2012 IPRH Fellowship, UIUC
- 2012-2016 Conrad Humanities Scholar Award
- CAS Resident Associate 2013-2014
Grants
- IPRH Research Cluster 2019-2020
- 2012-2015 Andrew Mellon New Directions Fellowship
- INTERSECT collaborative grant 2012-2014: Cultures of Law in Global Contexts
- INTERSECT-Cultures of Law 2014-2016
- Yellow Peril Redux: America’s Cultural Responses to the Economic Rise of Japan and China (co-PI: Mathew Brown). CEAPS Title VI Award, 2018-2020
- 2012-2013 ACLS Fellowship, Research in Humanities in China Program (funded by NEH)
- 2009-2010 Law and Society in China, Focal Point Initiative Grant, UIUC Graduate College (Collaboration with Law faculty)
- 2006-2007 UIUC Research Board Grant
Courses
- CHIN Chinese Readings in Social Sciences: legal history
- EALC/HIST120 East Asian Civilization
- EALC/GWS361 Women in East Asia
- EALC 550 History of China's Borderlands
- EALC 550/398 Law and Society in Chinese History
- EALC 398 Sino-Japanese Relationship
- EALC 550 Gender and Women in Chinese History
- EALC 398 America’s Cultural Responses to the Economic Rise of Japan and China