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Biography

  • Professor of History (Ph.D. Stanford, 1990)
  • Asian Studies Program Director (2009-2015)
  • Director, Oregon Consortium for International and Area Studies (2013-2015)
  • Editorial Board, Twentieth Century China (2008-present)
  • Modern China Editor, Journal of Asian Studies (2004-2006)
  • American Historical Association, Progam Committee (2015)
  • Association for Asian Studies, China Council (2013-2016)

Major Fellowships, Grants, Honors

  • Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies (2023)
  • National Humanities Center (2020-2021)
  • Faculty Excellence Award, UO (2020)
  • Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Research Fellowship (2018)
  • Membership (fellowship), Institute for Advanced Study, SHS, Princeton (2015-2016).
  • Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard (2012-13).
  • Faculty Research Award, Office of Research, UO (2014-2015)
  • Faculty Excellence Award, UO (2007)
  • Visiting Researcher, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (Fall 2005)
  • Petrone Fellow (2004)
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2003)
  • Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études, Paris (June 1999)
  • Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (1998-99)