EDUCATION

Yale University,  Ph.D., History, May 1998; M.A., International Relations, May 1992.

Ph.D. dissertation:  "Transmitted Secrets:  The Doctors of the Lower

Yangzi Region and Popular Gynecology in Late Imperial China"

Doctoral comprehensive exams (passed with distinction):  Modern China, Pre-modern China, History of Western Medicine

University of California, Berkeley,  B.A., with high distinction, Political Science, May 1986.

Université de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France), 1984-85.  Course work in political science and international relations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Albion College, Albion, MI (8/98 - present)

Associate Professor, Department of History. Teach three courses per term on East Asian history.

Kroll Associates, Inc.,  San Francisco, CA, and New York, NY (2/87 - 5/90)

Senior Associate.  Conducted and coordinated investigations for international corporate security and investigations firm. 

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC (6/86-12/86)

Intern.  Conducted research on U.S. and European attitudes towards the Middle East.

HONORS,  AWARDS, AND GRANTS

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2002-2003)

Faculty Development Grant, Albion College (2000, 2001)

East Asian Studies Prize Fellowship, Yale University (1995-1997)

Committee on Scholarly Communication with China Fellowship (1994-95)

Arthur F. Wright Fellowship in Chinese History, Yale University (1992-95)

Academic Excellence Award, International Relations, Yale University (1992)

Yale University Fellowship (1990-92)

Phi Beta Kappa, University of California (1986)

RESEARCH

Publications and manuscripts

“Ghost fetuses, false pregnancies, and the parameters of medical uncertainty

in classical Chinese gynecology,” Nan Nü:  Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China, 4.2 (2002):170-206.  Click here for PDF

"The Bamboo Grove Monastery and Popular Gynecology in Qing China," Late Imperial China 21.1 (June 2000): 41-76. Click here for PDF

Reproducing Women:  Metaphor, Medicine, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China.  Book manuscript in preparation.

"The Qing Dynasty," in Linda Barnes and TJ Hinrichs, ed. An Illustrated History of Chinese Medicine.  Harvard University Press, chapter manuscript in preparation.

Book reviews

Joanna Grant, A Chinese Physician:  Wang Ji and the “Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories”(London:  RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), Journal of Asian Studies, forthcoming.

Elisabeth Hsu, ed., Innovation in Chinese Medicine (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2001), Journal of Interdisciplinary History, forthcoming.

Joseph Schneider and Wang Laihua, Giving Care, Writing Self: A “New” Ethnography (New York:  Peter Lane Publishing, Inc, 2000).  Journal of Asian Studies 60.4 (November 2001):1172-74.

Charlotte Furth, A Flourishing Yin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), Journal of Asian Studies 59.2 (May 2000): 403-405.

Invited workshop and conference papers

“Reconsidering ‘Chinese’ and ‘Western’ medicine in the 19^th century,” Workshop on “Re-thinking the Legacies of the 19^th Century:  China and the World in Transition,” Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 9-10, 2004.

“The idealization of easy childbirth and its influence in Chinese obstetrics from the 13^th to 19^th centuries,” presented at “A Conversation about the Future History of East Asian Science, Medicine, and Technology,” The Johns Hopkins University, September 12-13, 2003.

"The idealization of "easy childbirth" (yi sheng) and its implications for medical practice in Qing China,"  presented at "Rencontres et circulation des savoirs et des pratiques en médecine," Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Recherches épistémologiques et historiques sur les sciences exactes et les institutions scientifiques, Paris, France, December 3, 2002.

“God’s Uterus:  Benjamin Hobson and ‘Western’ midwifery in nineteenth-century China,” presented at “The Disunity of Chinese Science,” University of Chicago, May 10-11, 2002.

"Master Formulas and Secret Remedies:  The History of shenghuatang (producing and transforming decoction) and Gynecological Practice in Late Imperial China," presented at "Medicine in China:  Health Techniques and Social History", Fondation Hugo, Paris, France, June 21-23, 2000.

“Benjamin Hobson’s Fuying xinshuo (A New Treatise on Women’s and Children’s Diseases),”  presented at “Chinese Healing Traditions:  Texts, Translations, Teaching,” Princeton University, May 5-7, 2000.

"Medicalizing the monstrous:  Blood, gender, and ghost fetuses (guitai) in traditional Chinese medical texts,"  presented at “The History of Health and Beauty”, Institute for History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, June 17-18, 1999.

"'Medicine of the immortals':  Folk remedies and mystical healing in The Bamboo Grove Monastery's Secret Prescriptions for Women,"  presented at "Chinese Medicine:  Texts and Translations," Harvard University, December 18-20, 1998.

Invited seminars and lectures

“‘Doing the month’ revisited:  post-partum diseases and the discourse of maternal mortality in late imperial Chinese medicine.”  Research Seminar Series, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, March 18, 2005.

“Historical perspectives on TCM gynecology.”  Grand Rounds, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, February 3, 2005.

“Anatomy and gender in classical Chinese medicine:  a case study of the ‘female womb’ (nüzi bao).”  Seminar on East Asian Medicine, Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, February 23, 2004.

“Born like a lamb:  Metaphors of natural childbirth in Qing China,” Needham Research Institute Text-reading series, Cambridge, England, November 1, 2002.

“God’s uterus:  Benjamin Hobson and ‘Western’ midwifery in nineteenth-century China,”  Faculty Seminar, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, October 29, 2001.

“Introducing the uterus to China:  Missionary doctor Benjamin Hobson’s New Treatise on Women’s and Children’s Diseases (Fuying xinshuo), 1858,” Southern Methodist University, April 4, 2001.

"The popularization of classical gynecology in late imperial China,"  Kalamazoo College, April 13, 1999.

"The doctors of Jiangnan and women's medicine in late imperial China,"  History of Medicine and Health Colloquium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 31, 1997. 

"Ancient Chinese secrets:  lineage and legend in nineteenth-century Chinese gynecology," Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 15, 1997.

"Nineteenth-century Chinese gynecological texts,"  Needham Research Institute Text-reading Series, Cambridge, England, May 9, 1996.

Contributed

conference and workshop papers

“A killing frost:  Inclement female bodies and agricultural metaphors of pregnancy loss in Qing China,”  Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting,  Chicago, IL  March 31-April 3, 2005 (proposal pending)

“A vessel of blood, a gate of life:  metaphors of uterine function and the construction of female illness in Ming-Qing gynecology,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 4-7, 2004.

“God’s uterus:  Benjamin Hobson and ‘Western’ midwifery in nineteenth-century China,”  Triennial conference, International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine, Shanghai, China, August 19-23, 2002.

“Introducing the uterus to China:  Benjamin Hobson’s New Treatise on Women’s and Children’s Diseases (Fuying xinshuo), 1858,”  Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 22-25, 2001.

 "Flowery rhymes and medical prescriptions:  Gu Dehua and upper-class female healers in Qing China,"  Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 11-14, 1999.

"Of monks and menstruation:  The Bamboo Grove Monastery and gynecological self-help books in nineteenth-century China," Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 13-16, 1997.

"Secrets from the Bamboo Grove:  Popular medicine and women's illnesses in late imperial China," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January 2-5, 1997.

Research languages

Classical Chinese, Modern Mandarin Chinese, French, Japanese

Professional affiliations

American Historical Association

Association for Asian Studies

Center Associate, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

TEACHING

Courses taught

Albion College: 

Hist. 111:     East Asia: Cultures and Civilizations

Hist. 263:     History of Modern China

Hist. 264:     History Modern Japan

Hist. 370:     Women and Gender in East Asia

Hist. 402:     Chinese Medicine, Past and Present

Hist. 402:     East Asian Environmental History

LA 101:        First year seminar:  Chinese Medicine in Cross-Cultural and

Historical Perspective

LA 101:        First year seminar:  From Sony to “Star Wars”:  East Asian

Influences on American Culture

Undergraduate research supervised

Albion College

Primary senior thesis adviser,  Lewis Cardenas (International Studies, 2002), "Disregarding Timor: An Investigation of Australian, Indonesian and Timorese Foreign Relations,” 2001-02 academic year.

Co-advisor, John Molenda (Anthropology, 2001), “Nationalism in Hong Kong,” Summer 2000.

David DiVincenzo (Art History, 2003), “Albion’s China Connection:  Judson Dwight Collins and the Methodist Missions to China,” Fall 2000.

Outreach and educational presentations

Interviewee, “Chinese Medicine” (working title).  Directed by Sharon Wood and produced by Lucas Film.  Educational film for distribution in The Young Indiana Jones, DVD release forthcoming 2005.

“On Successful Childbirth:  A popular medical manual from 18^th century China,” in China Mirror, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Web-based curricular module in preparation.

Editor, “ChiMed:  The History of Chinese Medicine Web Site.”  www.albion.edu/history/chimed

Curator, “Albion’s China Connection:  Judson Dwight Collins and the Methodist Missions to China.” Archival exhibit, Albion College, February 12 – March 9, 2001.

“Teaching Student Writing in Asian Studies Courses,”  ASIANetwork Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 28-30, 2000.

Curator, "The Floating World of Edo Japan," print exhibit, Albion College, February 12-March 3, 2000

"Celluloid Images of Asian and Asian-American Women." Roundtable panelist, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day program, January 21, 1997.

SERVICE

Albion College committees

International Studies Committee (Chair and program advisor, 1/01 – ). 

- Chair, International Studies faculty search committee (2003-04)

- Convened and chaired interdepartmental committee to revise interdisciplinary major in International Studies, Spring 2001

Asian Studies Committee (Chair and program advisor, 9/99 –)

- Convened and chaired interdepartmental committee to create an interdisciplinary Asian Studies Minor, Fall 1999

Educational Policy Committee (5/00-5/02)

College Course Change Committee (10/99-5/02; Chair 9/00-5/02)

Chair, Planning Committee, International Week 2001: “China in the 21^st Century” (4/00-2/01)

Advisory Committee Member,  Center for Interdisciplinary Study in Ethnic, Gender, and Global Issues,  (9/00-5/02)

Advisory Committee Member, Center for Interdisciplinary Study in History and Culture, (9/98-9/00)

Other service

Advisory board, Japan Study (Great Lakes Colleges Association consortial program), (12/98-12/01)