RESEARCH INTERESTS

Chinese history; economic and environmental history; gender, technology, and knowledge making; infrastructure

BIOGRAPHY

王悠 Wáng Yōu (she/they) is an economic and environmental historian of early modern and modern China. Her current book project, Collaboration amidst Conflict: Rural Communities and the Making of a Sustainable Waterscape in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1500-1950, examines the everyday interactions of village women and men with water- and landscapes in China's economic center through hydraulic institutions, agricultural knowledge production, and a gendered labor regime. She is also interested in continuing exploring the intertwinement of the environment, gender, and the market through the lens of vernacular religion and global trade.

Before coming to the University of Chicago as a Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Division, she received her doctoral degree in History from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2022. She is also an alumna of the University of Chicago (A.M. '14) and Zhejiang University (Bachelor of Economics '12).

PUBLICATION

"Women Till and Women Weave: Rice, Cotton, and the Gendered Division of Labor in Jiangnan" in Late Imperial China Vol 25 No. 1, June 2024.