Francis Newman

Francis Newman (牛法鑫) is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. His research primarily focuses on the relationship between human bodies and the environment in Qing Taiwan and South China, examining how different elements of society dealt with and re-imagined the dangers presented by diseases and the weather. His dissertation explores the nature of colonial power in Qing borderlands, Chinese and Western systems of knowledge and medicine, and the objectivity of climatic classifications.

Research interests: History of science; history of medicine; environmental history; Qing history; history of ethnicity; Taiwan history