Howard Chiang
Education
- Ph.D., History, Princeton University, 2012
- M.A., History, Princeton University, 2008
- M.A., Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Columbia University, 2006
- B.S., Biochemistry, University of Southern California, 2005
- B.A., Psychology, University of Southern California, 2005
About
Born in Taiwan and raised in Canada, Professor Howard Chiang joined the faculty of UC Davis in 2017. His first research monograph, After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China, was published by Columbia University Press in 2018. It analyzes the history of sex change in China from the demise of castration in the late Qing era to the emergence of transsexuality in Cold War Taiwan. He is currently completing a second book under contract with Columbia University Press, tentatively titled Above the Radar: Transtopia and the Rhetoric of History. He has also begun working on a new project on the history of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and mental health in transpacific Chinese culture. Prior to coming to UC Davis, he taught at the University of Warwick in England and the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Research Focus
Professor Chiang’s research focuses on the cultural and global history of modern China, with an emphasis on the history of science, medicine, gender, and sexuality. His research has been supported by Academia Sinica, the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia, and the Wellcome Trust. His work has pioneered the fields of transgender Asian history, queer Sinophone studies, and the historical epistemology of East Asian medicine.
Selected Publications
Chiang, H., & Wong, A. K. (Eds.). (2019). Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies. London: Routledge.
Chiang, H. (Ed.). (2019). The Making of the Human Sciences in China: Historical and Conceptual Foundations. Leiden: Brill.
Chiang, H. (Ed.). (2019). Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (3 vols). Farmington Hills: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Chiang, H. (2018). After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press.
Chiang, H. (Ed.). (2018). Sexuality in China: Histories of Power and Pleasure. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Chiang, H., & Wang, Y. (Eds.). (2016). Perverse Taiwan. London: Routledge.
Chiang, H. (Ed.). (2015). Historical Epistemology and the Making of Modern Chinese Medicine. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Chiang, H. (Ed.). (2014). Psychiatry and Chinese History. London: Pickering & Chatto.
Chiang, H., & Heinrich, A. L. (Eds.). (2013). Queer Sinophone Cultures. London: Routledge.
Chiang, H. (Ed.). (2012). Transgender China. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Teaching
Sex, Science, and Society: A Global History (HIS/STS 16); Undergraduate Proseminar in History: China Since 1800 (HIS 102H); Themes in World History (HIS 110); History of Modern Science (HIS 135B); The Chinese Revolution (HIS 191E); History of the People's Republic of China (HIS 191F); Special Topics in Chinese History After 1800 (HIS 191H); Cross-Cultural Women's and Gender History: Global Intimacies (HIS 201Q).
Awards
Yu Ying-shih Award in Humanities Research (Monographic Book Category), Academia Sinica and Tang Prize Foundation, 2018
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Global and Transnational History Nomination, Faculty of Arts, University of Waterloo, 2016-17
Young Scholar Award Finalist, European Association for Chinese Studies, 2016
Gregory Sprague Prize for Outstanding Article, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, American Historical Association, 2010
John C. Burnham Early Career Award, Forum for the History of Human Science, History of Science Society, 2007
Steven and Kathryn Sample Renaissance Scholar Endowment, University of Southern California, 2005