Speaker: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sigrid Schmalzer is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China and also includes the history of science activism transnationally. She is the author of The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China (Chicago 2008), Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (Chicago 2016), and numerous other publications. She is also the editor of the UMass Press book series Activist Studies of Science and Technology and serves as Co-President of the Massachusetts Society of Professors (the union of faculty and librarians at UMass Amherst).