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Stacey Van Vleet is a historian of modern Tibet and Inner Asia. Her research interests lie at the intersection of the history of science, technology, and medicine; religion, and ethnicity; and governance under imperial and post-imperial formations. She comes to the MPIWG from the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches as an assistant professor in the Department of History. She earned her PhD in History-East Asia from Columbia University, and an MA in Anthropology from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her current project "The World the Medicine Buddha Built: Tibetan Medical Governance in Qing Inner Asia," reveals how a network of Tibetan medical institutions across the northern Qing Empire (1644-1911) made technologies of Buddhism central to imperial governance, and how its dismantling was crucial to the making of a secular modern Chinese state. At MPIWG, she is creating an online digital humanities resource to map this monastic institutional network between China and Inner Asia.
