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Contact Information
2090 FLB
mc-146
Research Interests
The history of medicine, legal history, and imperial history.
Research Description
My dissertation, entitled "Legal Justice, Medical Authority and Madness in Qing China," examines the medical assessments of insanity in Qing legal administration. It provides a historical analysis of the integration of medicine into the Qing legal system before the coming of modern medicine and Western psychiatry. Moving beyond the scope of mental hospitals, it tells a broader story of how the Qing state, through its judiciary system—an integral component of late imperial China bureaucracy—regulated and shaped perceptions of insanity.
Grants
2024 Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies Graduate Travel Grant
2023 University Block Grant Fellowship
2023, 2022 EALC Graduate Research Fellowship, UIUC
2021 Dissertation Program Disruption Grant
2021 Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant
Awards and Honors
Award for Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (2017-19, 2021-22)
Courses Taught
HIST&EALC 120 East Asian Civilization (1600-present)
HIST&EALC 222 Chinese Thoughts and Culture