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.
Education
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2024 (expected)
Grants
CEAPS Graduate Travel Grant, 2024
School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Fellowship, 2023
Dissertation Program Disruption Grant, 2021
Spring Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, 2021
CEAPS Graduate Dissertation Travel Grant, 2020
EALC Graduate Research Fellowship, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
Awards and Honors
Award for Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (FA&SP2017, FA&SP2018, FA2019, FA2021, FA2022)
Courses Taught
Independent Instructor
- Chinese for Beginners
- Chinese Speaking and Listening
- Chinese Writing and Reading
- Advanced Chinese
Teaching Assistant
- East Asian Civilizations
- Masterpieces of East Asian Literature
- Popular Culture in East Asia
- An Introduction to the Scientific Study of the Chinese language
Additional Campus Affiliations
Organizing Committee, Symposium on How does Culture move, UIUC, 2020-2021.
Organizing Committee, Graduate Student Symposium on East Asia, UIUC, 2019.
Fulbright Campus Committee, UIUC, 2019.