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Office of the Chair
1029 Tisch Hall
734-763-2289

Geoff Eley, Chair, ghe@umich.edu
Joel Howell, Associate Chair, jhowell@umich.edu
Connie Hamlin, Executive Secretary, chamlin@umich.edu
Martin Pernick, Director of Graduate Studies, mpernick@umich.edu




Paulina Alberto
Assistant Professor 
palberto@umich.edu 		2705 Haven Hall 
734-647-4869  		Modern Latin American History; 20th Century Brazil; Race, Racial Politics, and National Ideologies of Race; Intellectual and Cultural History; Afro-Latin America/Diaspora     
George Alter
Professor 
altergc@umich.edu 		ICPSR 2154 Perry Bldg. 
734-615-7652  		Demography     
Steven Aschheim
Visiting Lecturer 
mssteve@umich.edu 		6147 Thayer 
734-647-3153  		     
Micah Auerback
Assistant Professor 
auerback@umich.edu 		6167 Thayer 
734-647-2091  		Japanese Religion     
Stephen Berrey
Assistant Professor 
sberrey@umich.edu 		3640 Haven Hall 
734-615-2936  		African American Cultural History, the U.S. South, Black resistance and protest in the 20th century, the African Diaspora      
Francis Blouin
Professor 
fblouin@umich.edu 		1150 Beal (Bentley Library) 
734-764-3482  		Archives, documentation, and institutions of social memory; United States Social History, Michigan history.      
Michael Bonner
Professor 
mbonner@umich.edu 		4147 Thayer Bldg.  
734-764-0314  		Medieval Near East, medieval Islam     
Howard Brick
Professor, Louis Evans Chair in US History 
hbrick@umich.edu 		1725 Haven Hall 
734-763-7861  		20th century U.S. history, social theory and American intellectual history, history of social movements and politics in the U.S. since 1865     
Charles Bright
Professor 
cbright@umich.edu 		201 Greene House - East Quad 
734-764-7414  		20th century world history, history of punishment, history of Detroit     
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Kathleen Canning
Professor 
kcanning@umich.edu 		2719 Haven Hall 
734-763-9937  		Modern Germany, modern European women and gender, labor and social movements, welfare state, history of the body     
John Carson
Associate Professor 
jscarson@umich.edu 		1765 Haven Hall 
734-647-7378  		American intellectual/cultural history; history of science; history of the human sciences; modern European intellectual      
Pär Cassel
Assistant Professor 
cassel@umich.edu 		1658 Haven Hall 
734-647-4868  		Late imperial and modern China; legal and institutional history of China; Sino-Japanese relations.      
Sueann Caulfield
Associate Professor 
scaul@umich.edu 		2751 Haven Hall 
734-647-7946  		Latin America, gender, Brazil     
Chun-shu Chang
Professor 
cschang@umich.edu 		1757 Haven Hall 
734-763-2294  		History and civilization of China, 1600 B.C.-A.D. 1800: Archaeological-anthropological, political, socio-cultural, intellectual-literary, military-diplomatic, historiography, science and technology; the Classics; historical literature.

Modern China: political, cultural, intellectual, historiography.

Chinese language (oracle bone and shell inscriptions [chia-ku wen]; bronze inscriptions[chin-wen]; Ch’in-Han writings including bamboo and wooden documents [chien-tu], philology); poetry and drama.

   

 
Rita Chin
Associate Professor 
rchin@umich.edu 		2526 Haven Hall 
734-615-9320  		Late modern Europe, especially post-1945; Germany; comparative European migrations; transnationalism; ethnic minorities; gender; intellectual history; cultural studies.      
David William Cohen
Professor 
dwcohen@umich.edu 		1743 Haven Hall 
734-615-3451  		Pre-colonial and 20th century African, Eastern and Southern Africa; historical anthropology; the production of history     
Juan R. Cole
Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History 
jrcole@umich.edu 		2725 Haven Hall 
734-763-1599  		Modern Middle East, Muslim South Asia, social and cultural     
Joshua Cole
Associate Professor 
joshcole@umich.edu 		1640 Haven Hall 
734-763-4159  		Modern France, Europe, social and cultural, gender, memory, violence, colonial, postcolonial      
James W. Cook
Associate Professor 
jwcook@umich.edu 		1759 Haven Hall 
734-763-7860  		19th and 20th-century U.S. history; cultural history and American studies; popular/mass culture; culture and capitalism; race and ethnicity; visual culture, African-American cultural history.      
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Matthew Countryman
Associate Professor 
mcountry@umich.edu 		2759 Haven Hall 
734-647-2434  		African American Social Movements, The Politics of Race in the United States Since World War II, 20th U.S. Political and Social History     
Deborah Dash Moore
Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of History  
ddmoore@umich.edu 		2111 Thayer, Judaic Studies 
734-647-7862  		American Jewish history; 20th century urbanization, migration, and acculturation; community building     
Deirdre de la Cruz
Assistant Professor 
ddelac@umich.edu 		6111 Thayer  
734-615-8506  		The Philippines; religion; colonialism and post-colonialism; modernity and mass culture; histories and theories of the mass media      
Christian de Pee
Assistant Professor 
cdepee@umich.edu 		1632 Haven Hall 
734-763-6968  		Tang-Song-Yuan China, representations of imperial power, text and writing, archaeology      
Philip Deloria
Professor 
pdeloria@umich.edu 		3700 Haven Hall (American Culture) 
734-763-1460  		Issues of culture and representation, particularly concerning American Indian people; Environmental and Western American history.      
Gregory Dowd
Professor 
dowdg@umich.edu 		3672 Haven Hall 
734-763-1460  		Native American history, early American history     
Fuat Dundar
Lecturer 
fdundar@umich.edu 		2627 Haven Hall 
734-647-5406  		Armenian history     
Geoff Eley
Department Chair, Professor  
ghe@umich.edu 		1029G Tisch Hall  
734-763-2289  		German, British, modern Europe, historiography, cultural studies. Research: European Left, 1848-present; German liberalism 1848-1933; cinema and the construction of the national past; conceptions of class in history and politics; nationalism, fascism, state formation     
Todd M. Endelman
Professor 
endelman@umich.edu 		1666 Haven Hall 
734-764-7308  		Modern Jewish history     
Hussein Fancy
Assistant Prof/Post Doc Mich Society of Fellows  
fancy@umich.edu 		2641 Haven Hall 
734-647-5409  		Medieval Europe and North Africa; the Mediterranean; the Crusades; the Cultural, Social, and Intellectual History of Religious Interaction; Ritual, Violence, and Kingship; Latin, Arabic, Romance, and Judeo-Arabic Paleography.     
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Albert Feuerwerker
A.M. & H.P. Bentley Professor Emeritus of History 
afeuer@umich.edu 		734-668-8742  Modern China; East Asian economic history     
John Fine
Professor 
jvafine@umich.edu 		1642 Haven Hall 
734-763-2231  		Medieval and modern Balkans, Byzantium     
Sara Forsdyke
Associate Professor 
forsdyke@umich.edu 		2144 Angell Hall 
734-936-6098  		     
Dario Gaggio
Associate Professor 
dariog@umich.edu 		2765 Haven Hall 
734-763-2297  		Modern South European history; history of technology; European economic history     
Kevin Gaines
Professor 
gaineskk@umich.edu 		4700 Haven Hall (CAAS) 
734-764-5513  		U.S. and African American intellectual and cultural history; race and gender politics in post-World War II America; African American cultural production; the global dimensions of U.S. struggles over the meaning of citizenship      
Dena Goodman
Professor 
goodmand@umich.edu 		2144 Lane Hall 
734-647-0771  		Early Modern France, Enlightenment, Women and Gender     
Thomas A. Green
Professor 
tagreen@umich.edu 		342 Hutchins Hall (Law School) 
734-764-1457  		England and America, constitutional and legal; criminal responsibility and the criminal trial jury     
Raymond Grew
Professor Emeritus of History  
rgrew@umich.edu 		1029 Tisch Hall 
  		Modern European History, especially social history and the history of France and Italy; comparative studies; religion and society; global history.      
Myron Gutmann
Professor 
gutmann@umich.edu 		1120A Perry Bldg 
734-615-8400  		Historical demography of Europe and America; early modern Europe; population and environment; environmental history      
David J. Hancock
Professor 
hancockd@umich.edu 		2767 Haven Hall 
734-763-7859  		Early America; Early-Modern Atlantic Business, Economic and Social History; Colonial Caribbean plantation society; Transnational Exchanges      
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Jean Hébrard
Visiting Professor 
jhebrard@umich.edu 		1725 Haven Hall 
734-763-7861  		European history     
Gabrielle Hecht
Associate Professor 
hechtg@umich.edu 		2666 Haven Hall 
734-647-7937  		History of technology; nuclear power and proliferation; colonialism and postcoloniality; globalization; labor; national identity; modern Africa (Gabon, Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa); modern France.      
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Associate Professor 
jessehg@umich.edu 		3751 Haven Hall 
734-647-0253  		Modern Latin American and Caribbean history, Latina/o Studies, international migrations and transnationalism, music and popular culture, cities, the poor and social movements, and oral history.      
Joel D. Howell
Associate Chair, Professor 
jhowell@umich.edu 		1029J Tisch Hall 
734-763-2289  		Medicine; Internal Medicine; history of medicine; history of human experimentation; history of technology     
Diane Owen Hughes
Associate Professor 
dohughes@umich.edu 		2507 Haven Hall 
734-764-8547  		Medieval and Renaissance; cultural, social, legal     
Nancy Rose Hunt
Associate Professor 
nrhunt@umich.edu 		1735 Haven Hall 
734-647-4887  		Africa; gender history; medicine, health, and the body; colonial studies; historical ethnography and anthropological history; objects—their histories and semiotics; childbirth and reproductive medicine; comics and cultural production; religious movements; experiments in narrative form; francophone central Africa; African cities; Ghana, Burundi, Rwanda, and especially Congo (Zaire)     
Kali Israel
Associate Professor 
kisrael@umich.edu 		2511 Haven Hall 
734-647-4898  		Modern Britain, women's history, modern Europe, cultural studies     
Paul C. Johnson
Director, Anthro & History PhD Prog, Assoc. Prof. 
paulcjoh@umich.edu 		4628 Haven Hall (CAAS) 
734-763-5518  		History and ethnography of the religions of the African Diaspora in Brazil and the Caribbean; religion and race; religion and migration; modern history of Brazil; theories of religion, and history of the study of religion     
Miranda Johnson
Asst. Professor/Post Doc Mich Soc Fellows 
mirandal@umich.edu 		734-xxx-xxxx       
Martha S. Jones
Associate Professor 
msjonz@umich.edu 		2703 Haven Hall  
734-647-5421  		African American history; 19th century United States history; women's history; critical race theory, Atlantic world slavery and law     
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Susan Juster
Professor 
sjuster@umich.edu 		2521 Haven Hall 
734-763-7858  		Early American history, women, religion, evangelical culture in Britain and America      
Carol F. Karlsen
Professor 
ckarlsen@umich.edu 		2508 Haven Hall 
734-647-4884  		American women, early American social and cultural     
Mary Kelley
Professor 
mckelley@umich.edu 		2672 Haven Hall 
734-647-7941  		19th and 20th century American intellectual history; women's history     
Valerie A. Kivelson
Professor 
vkivelso@umich.edu 		2743 Haven Hall 
734-763-2049  		Early modern Russia, witchcraft, cultural history, gender, religion, history of cartography, empire     
Scott Kurashige
Associate Professor 
kurashig@umich.edu 		2757 Haven Hall 
734-647-3341  		Asian American history, U.S. urban history, Los Angeles, Detroit, comparative race and ethnicity, African American history, social movements      
Matthew Lassiter
Associate Professor 
mlassite@umich.edu 		2513 Haven Hall 
734-647-4618  		20th century United States, urban/suburban, political, social, Southern, popular culture     
Gerard Libaridian
Visiting Professor  
glibarid@umich.edu 		2640 Haven Hall 
734-763-4555  		Armenian history     
Victor B. Lieberman
Professor 
eurasia@umich.edu 		1741 Haven Hall 
734-763-4771  		Southeast Asia, pre-modern Burma     
Gerald Linderman
Professor Emeritus of History  
  		1029 Tisch Hall 
734-971-8562  		     
Rudi P. Lindner
Professor 
rpl@umich.edu 		1672 Haven Hall 
734-763-2290  		Byzantine, Turkish and Inner Asia; discovery and exploration; modern astronomy     
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Elise Lipkowitz
Asst Prof/Post Doc Mich Soc of Fellows 
elipkow@umich.edu 		2657 Haven Hall 
734-647-5412  		     
Michael MacDonald
Professor 
mmacdon@umich.edu 		2725 Haven Hall 
734-763-0120  		Early modern Britain; social cultural; mentalities     
Howard Markel
Professor 
howard@umich.edu 		100 Simpson Memorial Institute, 102 Observatory, 0725 
734-647-6914  		History of U.S. medicine and public health, history of U.S. immigration, U.S. urban immigration     
Jonathan Marwil
Lecturer 
jmarwil@umich.edu 		2632 Haven Hall 
734-647-5418  		Modern European history; war, historiography, photography     
Tomoko Masuzawa
Professor 
masuzawa@umich.edu 		2634 Haven Hall 
734-615-3602  		Religion, European intellectual     
Michelle McClellan
Assistant Professor 
mmcclel@umich.edu 		2637 Haven Hall 
734-647-5408  		Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American social and cultural history; public history, memory and place; historic preservation; Michigan history; gender, medicine, and addiction     
Terrence J. McDonald
Dean, College of LS&A; Professor 
tmcd@umich.edu 		2005 LSA 
734-764-0322  		Modern American history, political, urban, historiography     
Tiya Miles
Associate Professor 
tiya@umich.edu 		3664 Haven Hall 
734-936-4374   		Intersectional and comparative African American and Native American history, especially 19th century; African American women's history; Native American women's history.      
Farina Mir
Assistant Professor 
fmir@umich.edu 		2528 Haven Hall 
734-647-5416  		Colonial and postcolonial South Asia; Islam in South Asia; History of the British Empire; Nationalism; Language and Society     
Jeffrey Mirel
Professor 
jmirel@umich.edu 		4144 School of Education Building, 610 E. University 
734-615-8983  		History of American urban education, high school curriculum, civic education     
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Anthony Mora
Assistant Professor 
apmora@umich.edu 		3767 Haven Hall 
734-615-5766  		19th century United States, historical construction of race, gender, and sexuality in the U.S., Mexican American history, Latino/a history, the History of Sexuality.     
Regina Morantz-Sanchez
Professor 
reginann@umich.edu 		2664 Haven Hall 
734-763-2296  		Women's and gender history, history of the family, sexuality, the body, and medicine, race and ethnicity, Jewish American history     
Ian Moyer
Assistant Professor 
ianmoyer@umich.edu 		2520 Haven Hall 
734-647-7946  		Ancient Greek history, especially of the Hellenistic period; Late Period, Ptolemaic, and Roman Egypt; non-Greeks and Hellenism; ethnicity and culture in the ancient world; historiography and ethnography; religion and magic      
Rudolf Mrázek
Professor 
rdlf@umich.edu 		2749 Haven Hall 
734-764-6588  		Southeast Asia, modern Indonesia     
Ellen Muehlberger
Assistant Professor 
emuehlbe@umich.edu 		4163 Thayer Bldg. 
734-615-2960  		Early Christian history and literature, Coptic and Syriac studies, religion in late antiquity, theories of the religious imagination     
Rhoads Murphey
Professor Emeritus of History 
  		at home: 2012 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 
734-668-8239  		Asia - all periods     
Rachel Neis
Assistant Professor 
rneis@umich.edu 		2506 Haven Hall 
734-647-4616  		Jewish History (particularly late antique), Palestinian and Babylonian Rabbinic Culture, Religion and Mysticism, Law in the Ancient World, Vision and Visuality      
Douglas Northrop
Associate Professor 
northrop@umich.edu 		2519 Haven Hall 
734-647-0099  		Modern Central Asia; USSR/Russia; world/global history; social/cultural; empire; gender; environmental.      
Martin S. Pernick
Director of Graduate Studies, Professor 
mpernick@umich.edu 		1727 Haven Hall 
734-647-4876  		U.S. cultural history; history of medicine, health and the body     
Derek R. Peterson
Associate Professor 
drpeters@umich.edu 		1634 Haven Hall 
734-615-3608  		Nineteenth- and twentieth-century African history; history of religion; history of the book; ethnicity and political culture in eastern Africa      
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Leslie Pincus
Associate Professor 
lpincus@umich.edu 		1707 Haven Hall 
734-764-6381  		Modern Japan, intellectual, cultural, social; cultural studies, aesthetics and nationalism     
Brian Porter-Szűcs
Associate Professor 
baporter@umich.edu 		1751 Haven Hall 
734-764-6803  		Modern Eastern Europe; 19th & 20th century Poland; 19th and 20th century Roman Catholicism; Modern European intellectual history      
Ellen Poteet
Lecturer 
poteet@umich.edu 		2645 Haven 
734-647-5410  		Coptic monasticism; late Roman and early Islamic Egypt; the Catholic Church in contemporary Africa; histories of migration and settlement in the Lake Chad basin; nomadism      
Helmut Puff
Associate Professor 
puffh@umich.edu 		3142 MLB 
734-647-0251  		Primary interests: Medieval and early modern history of Europe; gender history; history of sexuality

Secondary interests: Cultural history; Reformation history; history of printing; history of reading    

 
Daniel Ramírez
Assistant Professor 
dramire@umich.edu 		3658 Haven Hall 
734-615-6474  		American Religious History, Cultural Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Studies, Reformation History      
Sherie Randolph
Assistant Professor 
smrand@umich.edu 		4640 Haven Hall (CAAS) 
734-936-6528  		20th Century United States, African American, African Diaspora, Women and Gender, Black Feminism(s), Black Power, Social Movements     
John Recchiuti
Visiting Professor 
jrecchiu@umich.edu 		2519 Haven Hall 
734-647-5414  		U.S. history     
Sonya O. Rose
Professor Emeritus of History 
sorose@umich.edu 		1029 Tisch Hall 
  		19th and 20th century Britain; gender and labor history; national identity; citizenship; history of sexuality     
William G. Rosenberg
Professor 
wgr@umich.edu 		2509 Haven Hall 
734-647-4888  		Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union; political, social, socio-cultural and socio-economics; labor; intellectual/religious; revolutionary movements     
Damon Salesa
Associate Professor 
salesa@umich.edu 		2529 Haven Hall 
734-647-4885  		The British Empire. New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Racial & colonial discourses, especially race ‘mixedness’. Indigenous histories (especially of the Pacific), the politics of history making and history writing. Comparative imperialisms and colonialisms. History of sport. Colonial medicine.      
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Julius Scott
Lecturer 
jsscott@umich.edu 		4632 Haven Hall 
734-763-5133  		African American, early America, the Atlantic; Latin America     
Rebecca J. Scott
Professor 
rjscott@umich.edu 		1749 Haven Hall 
734-763-4779  		Latin America; Cuban history; slavery and emancipation; race, law, and citizenship in the United States; slavery and the law      
Alexander Semyonov
Visiting Associate Professor 
  		2631 Haven Hall 
734-xxx-xxxx  		     
John Shy
Professor Emeritus of History 
johnshy@umich.edu 		734-665-2165  Military; early American     
David R. Smith
Adjunct Assistant Professor 
davidsm@umich.edu 		LSA Advising Center, 1255 Angell Hall 
734-647-9624  		US foreign relations     
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Professor Emeritus of History 
csmithro@umich.edu 		2122 Lane Hall 
734-647-0772  		Women's history, history of sexuality, early America     
Margaret Somers
Professor 
peggs@umich.edu 		4228 LSA 
734-764-2900  		Sociology of citizenship and rights; European studies and European union; political sociology     
Scott Spector
Associate Professor 
spec@umich.edu 		3204 MLB 
734-647-0401  		Modern Central European cultural and intellectual, modern Germany and Austria, German-Jewish, gender and sexuality.      
Paolo Squatriti
Associate Professor 
pasqua@umich.edu 		2727 Haven Hall 
734-647-4897  		Medieval History     
Nicholas H. Steneck
Professor Emeritus of History 
nsteneck@umich.edu 		1029 Tisch Hall 
  		U.S. education; research and professional ethics     
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Alexandra Minna Stern
Associate Professor  
amstern@umich.edu 		100 Simpson Memorial Institute, 102 Observatory 
734- 647-6914  		History of Science and Medicine, Modern Americas, California and the Southwest, Science Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Medical Humanities.      
Ronald Grigor Suny
Professor 
rgsuny@umich.edu 		1767 Haven Hall 
734-647-4883  		Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia; nationalism; ethnic conflict; the role of emotions in politics; South Caucasus; Russian/Soviet historiography     
Ken Sylvester
Adjunct Lecturer 
kenms@umich.edu 		2206C Perry Bldg 
734-615-7852  		Canadian history; environmental history, historical demography, agricultural land use, and rural social history     
Thomas Tentler
Professor Emeritus of History  
ttentler@umich.edu 		211 13th St. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003 
202-544-7240  		     
J. Mills Thornton
Professor 
jmthrntn@umich.edu 		2741 Haven Hall 
734-647-4874  		U.S. South, U.S. 1815-1877     
Hitomi Tonomura
Professor 
tomitono@umich.edu 		1719 Haven Hall 
734-647-7298  		Pre-modern Japanese history, East Asian history, state and family, war and gender, childbirth, comparative sexuality      
Thomas R. Trautmann
Professor 
ttraut@umich.edu 		1733 Haven Hall 
734-647-4899  		Ancient India; Orientalist scholarship in India; history of anthropology; kinship; ideas of time and history across cultures; anthropology in American culture     
Richard Turits
Associate Professor 
rturits@umich.edu 		2518 Haven Hall 
734-647-4873  		Hispanic Caribbean and Haiti; race, slavery, violence, nondemocratic regimes, peasantries, and U.S. interventions     
Ray Van Dam
Professor 
rvandam@umich.edu 		2733 Haven Hall 
734-763-1193  		Later Roman empire, religion and society, the Greek East under Roman rule      
Martha Vicinus
Professor 
vicinus@umich.edu 		Sweetland Writing Center, 1111 Angell Hall 
734-936-3144  		Victorian women, sexuality, Women's Studies     
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Maris A. Vinovskis
AM and HP Bentley Professor of History  
vinovski@umich.edu 		2658 Haven Hall 
734-647-2545  		U.S. social, family, demography, education     
Penny Von Eschen
Professor 
pmve@umich.edu 		3640 Haven Hall 
734-647-6157  		African Americans and the politics of culture with a particular focus on transnational cultural and political dynamics, and Race, Gender, and Empire: the political culture of United States imperialism.     
Rudolph (Butch) Ware
Assistant Professor 
rudyware@umich.edu 		2510 Haven Hall 
734-647-7943  		Africa, West Africa, Islam, Islamic Education, Sufism, Slavery, African-American and African Diaspora history, Race.     
Ulrike Weckel
Visiting Associate Professor 
uweckel@umich.edu 		1741 Haven Hall 
733-4771  		German history     
Michael Witgen
Assistant Professor 
mwitgen@umich.edu 		2642 Haven Hall 
734-647-5419  		American Indian and early American history; the North American West; Borderlands history, and pre-confederation Canada     
Ernest Young
Professor Emeritus of History 
epyoung@umich.edu 		1029 Tisch Hall 
734-764-6305  		Modern China, East Asia; political, social, intellectual     
WANG Zheng
Associate Professor 
wangzhen@umich.edu 		2156 Lane Hall (Women's Studies) 
734-763-6635  		Women and gender in modern China, Chinese feminism in the context of globalization, gender and socialist state formation, comparative histories of feminism.      

 

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