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Wood Rights and Forestry in Ming and Qing China
This project examines the role that institutions played in mediating social and environmental change in the forests of early modern China. Forestry is
To Reconcile the Irreconcilable: Spatial Tools for Negotiating Environmental Conflicts in Swedish Land-use Planning
My project concerns Swedish land-use planning between 1966 and 1972, and it focuses on a national land-use plan created with the stated goal of elimin
Dyeing for Permanence: Communities of Practice and the Making of Bingata
Celebrated as a traditional Okinawan craft, bingata (vermilion patterns) refers to a technique of printing colorful and intricate patterns on fabric t
After Mapping the Avant-Garde: Music, Experimentalism, Technology, Science
This dissertation project is an interdisciplinary research study on the networks of the first twenty years of the WDR’s Electronic Music Studio in Col
Prepositional Bodies
Focusing on Manchu-language discussions about anatomy and materia medica in a number of textual genres, the project looks critically at efforts to use
The Laws of Habit
Victorian Britons and their American contemporaries were obsessed with habit. The term served as a catch-all category for a host of anxieties—from man
A Historical and Critical Neuroscience of Music
Over the past twenty years neuroscience huge strides have been made in our understanding of how the brain reacts to music, and representations of musi
Hand Mnemonics and Counting Skills: Reducing Uncertainty through Fate Computation
This research focuses on practices and texts related to hand mnemonics in fate prediction methods in contemporary China and Taiwan (with a current foc
Engineering Growth: Infrastructures of Planning in Japanese Overseas Development
My project examines the history of Japan's overseas development system in Asia from its origins in Japan's colonial rule over much of Asia before 1945
Promoting Techniques in Confucian Statecraft: Pak Chega’s “Technology Policy” in Late Eighteenth-Century Korea
Upon returning from his tributary mission to Beijing in 1788, a member of the Korean literati named Pak Chega (1750–1805) drafted a travelogue titled