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Department of History

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Asia

(For more information about graduate studies in the Asia field please see here.)


Carol Benedict

Research Interests: China, Chinese medicine, history of disease, history of consumer culture

Selected Publications:

Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010, University of California Press, 2011
WINNER of AHA King Fairbank Prize in East Asian History, 2011

Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1996.


 James Millward

Research Interests: Late Imperial China, Central and Inner Asia, Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet, Frontiers, Ethnicity

Selected Publications:

The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. New York: Columbia University Press; London: C. Hurst, Co., 2006. 

New Qing Imperial History: The Making of Inner Asian Empire at Qing Chengde. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. (Chief editor; with assistance from Ruth Dunnell, Mark Elliott and Philippe Forêt)


Micah Muscolino

Research Interests: environmental history of late imperial and modern China

Selected Publications:

Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China, Harvard Asia Center and Harvard University Press, 2009.

"Introduction: Reading and Using the Forum on the Environment in World History", World History Connected 8.2, 2011.


 Jordan Sand

Research Interests: Modern Japan, social reform, domesticity, cultural history

Selected Publications:

House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004.
WINNER AAS Northeast Asia Council John Whitney Hall Prize and AHA John King Fairbank Prize in East Asian History, 2004


Howard R. Spendelow

Research Interests: China, East Asia

Current Project: "Russia's South Manchurian Adventure: The Liaodong Leasehold and China's Resistance to Imperialism, 1889-1905"


 Aparna Vaidik

Research Interests: modern South Asia, Indian Ocean World, British Empire, Island Studies and Convict Histories

Selected Publications:
Imperial Andamans: Colonial Encounter and Island History: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

"Settling the Convict: Matrimony and Family in the Andamans", Studies in History 22.2, 2006

Jan 2013

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