Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History
Research interests: history of the last Qing dynasty; the Manchu and the construction of ethnicity as a comparative historical problem in the context of oth
Research interests: China defense and foreign policy; China maritime and aerospace technology development, history and current status; China energy, resources, and geostrategy; Sino-American relations and contemporary policy issues
Adrienne Fitzgerald earned her bachelor's degreein art history from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Before coming to Harvard, she taught English at Shaanxi Normal University in Xi'an, China. As staff assistant, she supports the Director, Associate Director, and the Center's many associates.
Research interests: neolithic China, neolithic ceramics, Majiayao, Taosi, Xia dynasty, Erlitou, Shang dynasty bronzes, Zhengzhou, Anyang, early Chinese jades, China and Eurasia ca. 2000 BCE, Qijia culture, the taotie and visual syntax
Associate Professor of Anthropological Archaeology
Research interests: emergence and development of complex society during the late Neolithic period and the Bronze Age in China; interests in diachronic chang
Taylor Fravel is engaged in several research projects on China’s foreign and security policies. The first examines China’s behavior in its maritime sovereig
Research interests: Qing dynasty popular religious sects, state and religion, White Lotus sects, White Lotus uprising, Qing biography, "Prophets and Pretenders: Religious Sects and the State in mid-Qing China"
Research interests: business and economic history of the Southwest Borderlands (Yunnan, Kham, Burma), "China's Frontiers: A General History, Qing to Present"
Research interests: modern Chinese history, including political reform and the struggle for political rights in reform era China; history of Chinese intellec
