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Susan R. Fernsebner received her Ph.D. from UCSD in 2002 and is now Associate Professor of History at University of Mary Washington, where she specializes in modern Chinese material culture in the historical context of capitalism and colonialism. She is also the editor of the website Gulou.tumblr.com (“Drum Tower”).
Christian Hess received his Ph.D. from UCSD in 2006 and is now Assistant Professor of History at Sophia University in Tokyo, where he is completing his first book, a transnational history of Dalian under Chinese, Japanese, and Russian rule. His next project is on comparative urban history in East Asia.
Matthew D. Johnson received his Ph.D. from UCSD in 2008 and is Assistant Professor of East Asian History at Grinnell College. His scholarly research and writing focus on issues of culture and politics, war and society, U.S.-China transnational relations, and contemporary Chinese media and cinema.
Lu Liu received her Ph.D. from UCSD in 2002 and is now Assistant Professor of History at Ithaca College. She has published articles on population displacement and women’s activism during and after WWII in China. Her current research focuses on the social and political implications of wartime refugee crisis.
Cecily McCaffrey received her Ph.D. from UCSD in 2003 and is now Associate Professor of History at Willamette University, where she teaches East Asian history. Her research, which has appeared in Modern China, focuses on popular resistance and state-society relations in late imperial China.
Andrew D. Morris received his Ph.D. from UCSD in 1998 and is now Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he specializes in the modern history of China and Taiwan. His most recent book—Colonial Project, National Game (2010)—examines baseball in Taiwan.
Charles Musgrove received his Ph.D. from UCSD in 2002 and is now Associate Professor of History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. His research focuses on urban history in China and Taiwan. His first book is China’s Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing (2013).
Sigrid Schmalzer received her Ph.D. from UCSD in 2004 and is now Associate Professor of History at UMass Amherst. She published her first book, The People’s Peking Man, in 2008 and is currently completing a book manuscript titled “Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Encounters with ‘Scientific Farming’ in Socialist China.”
Elena Songster received her Ph.D. from UCSD in 2004 and is now Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary’s College of California. Her first book, on the panda as a national icon, is under contract with Oxford University Press; her new research focuses on snow leopards and medicinals from nature.
Zhiwei Xiao received his Ph.D. from UCSD in 1994 and is now Associate Professor of History at California State University, San Marcos, where he specializes in the history of film in China. His research has appeared in Modern China, Twentieth-Century China, Asian Cinema, and numerous other journals and edited volumes.
Xiaowei Zheng received her Ph.D. from UCSD in 2009 and is now Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. Her articles have appeared in Late Imperial China and Twentieth-Century China, and she is completing a book manuscript on political culture, protest repertoires, and nationalism in early twentieth-century China.