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Anurag Advani
Anurag Advani is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Asian Studies program at Hamilton College in Clinton, upstate New York, where he teaches courses on History of Madness, Science and Islam, and Medieval South Asia. Last summer, he finished his PhD in South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where his dissertation explored changing conceptions of madness and mental illness in medical, poetic, Sufi and courtly texts from the Mughal Empire and Deccan Sultanates in early modern South Asia. He is broadly interested in Islamic studies, Persian and Urdu poetry, history of medicine, Sufism, and South Asian history.

Nicole Barnes
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is author of Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945 (University of California Press, 2018) and is currently writing a social and ecological history of night soil and toilets in modern China.

Saghar Bozorgi
Saghar Bozorgi is a PhD candidate in Middle Eastern History at the University of Texas at Austin. Saghar studied sociology at Tehran University, Political Science at Central European University, and Middle Eastern Studies at the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University. Placed at the intersection of disability studies, history of emotions, and the social history of medicine, Saghar’s dissertation focuses on medical modernization in Iran and highlights non-elite perceptions of mental illness.

Lisa Brooks
Lisa Allette Brooks is a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta. Lisa’s current research focuses on the history and practice of medicine and healing in first-millennium South Asia and contemporary ayurvedic medicine in India, with a focus on gender and sexuality, the body, sensory knowledges, and human-animal interactions. Lisa is the South Asia Area Editor for the journal Asian Medicine, and reviews editor for History of Science in South Asia.

Claire Cooper
Claire Cooper a specialist of material and intellectual exchange in early modern Japan (1600-1868), with a focus on the Indian Ocean and global networks trafficked by the VOC. She works to synthesize the commercial, material, and cultural aspects of scientific and medical history that are often left out of “traditional” approaches to the discipline. She received her PhD in East Asian Studies from Princeton, and currently works at the University of the South teaching Asian history.

Judith Farquhar
Judith Farquhar is Max Palevsky Professor Emerita of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and the Faculty Director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing. She does research on traditional medicine, popular culture, and everyday life in contemporary China. Anthropological areas of interest include medical anthropology; the anthropology of knowledge and of embodiment; science and technology studies; critical theory and cultural studies; and theories and practices of reading, writing, and translation. She is the author of Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine (1994), Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China (2002), Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing (2012, with Qicheng Zhang), Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine (2020), and Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South (2021, with Lili Lai). Several of these books have been published in Chinese. She co-edited Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life (2007, with Margaret Lock) as well as several journal special issues. She is also a founding convener of the transdisciplinary Translating Vitalities collective.

Marielle Harrison
Marielle Harrison is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. Her work explores shifts in normative ideas around diet, body, and animals in early Mahāyāna Buddhist sūtras. In particular, her dissertation illustrates how discussions about meat eating in text such as The Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇamahā Sūtra, Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, Aṅgulimālīya Sūtra, and Hastikakṣya Sūtra served as staging grounds for thinking through early Buddhist ideas about embodiment, bodily vulnerability, and spiritual identity.

Fabienne Jagou
Fabienne Jagou (PhD. Paris, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, EHESS), historian, is senior associate professor with habilitation at the École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Paris. She teaches at the EHESS. Her research focuses on the political and cultural relations between Tibet and China from the eighteenth century to the present. She is the principal investigator of the ANR funded project (ANR-21-CE27-0025-Natinasia) entitled “Building Nationalism in Inner Asia: the Empowerment of the Tibetan Revolution in the Early Twentieth-century”. Her latest publications is Gongga Laoren (1903–1997): Her Role in the Spread of Tibetan Buddhism (Brill, 2021).

Miryang Kang
Miryang Kang is a doctoral candidate at KAIST, South Korea. Working at the intersection of science and technology studies, medical anthropology, medical history, and disability studies, she is interested in disability, medicine, and senses. Her doctoral thesis, tentatively titled “Robot at the Margin of Medicine: Robotic Rehabilitation and the Contours of Dis/ability in Late-industrial South Korea,” examines how robots change rehabilitation practices in Korea and what these changes mean to local conceptions of disability.

Anya King
Anya King is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Indiana, where she teaches Middle Eastern and Asian history.  She studied Central Eurasian Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington.  Her research focuses on the intersections between cross-cultural trade and material culture, especially in the area of perfumes, dyes, and drugs, in ancient and medieval Eurasia. Dr. King has written Scent from the Garden of Paradise: Musk and the Medieval Islamic World (Brill, 2017), and is currently preparing a book on the technology of early Islamicate perfumery.

Lan A. Li
Lan A. Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Li is a historian of the body and media producer, contributing to podcasts and exhibitions related to acupuncture, Buddhist medicine, and metaphors in science and medicine. Li’s first book, Body Maps: Improvising Meridians and Nerves in Global Chinese Medicine (JHU Press, 2025) considers the long history of graphically representing invisible anatomy.

Yang Li
Yang Li is currently an Anna Julia Cooper Postdoctoral Fellow and an incoming Assistant Professor of the History of Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests lie at the intersection of science, medicine, and technology in modern East Asia. She obtained her PhD degree in the History of Science program from Princeton University in September 2024.

Yan Liu
Yan Liu is an associate professor in History at SUNY, Buffalo. He specializes in the history of medicine in premodern China, with a focus on material practices of medicine, religious healing, the history of the senses, and the global circulation of knowledge. His first book, Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China, was published by the University of Washington Press in 2021 (open access available). His second book explores a transcultural history of aromatics and the production of olfactory knowledge in China from the 7th to 13th century.

Ling Ma
Ling Ma is a social and cultural historian of modern China and an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Geneseo. Her research explores the nexus of reproduction, medicine, law, emotion, and the body. She is the author of “Bringing the Law Home: Abortion, Reproductive Coercion, and the Family in Early Twentieth-Century China (Women’s History Review, 2021),” “Tender Matters: Remembering Dead and Dying Children in Early Twentieth-Century China (Remembering the Dead in Modern China, forthcoming),” and “Unsightly Bodies, Telling Wounds: Confronting Maternal Injuries in Modern China (The Routledge Global History of Women at Work, 1700–2000, forthcoming).” She is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Transgressive Intimacy: Reproductive Revolutions in Early Twentieth-Century China.

Erin McConkey
Erin McConkey is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She received a bachelor’s degree in anthropology, linguistics, Japanese, and Asian Studies from Purdue University and a master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her doctoral research explores the treatment of snakebite envenomation and production of antivenom in Thailand. She is interested in pharmaceuticals, interspecies entanglements, and the body.

Median Mutiara
Median Mutiara, PhD, is an independent sociologist and anthropologist focusing on identity, sensory ethnography, and everyday politics in migration. Her PhD from Nagoya University explored Indonesian migrants’ lives in Japan and was nominated for the Asia Pacific Research Prize. She has received awards like Fuji Xerox’s Setsutaro Kobayashi Memorial Fund and the AGS Fellowship. Her recent chapter, “Urusai Neighbors: Indonesian Migrants and Noise Conflict in Rural Japan,” was published by Liverpool University Press (2024).

Atsuko Naono
Dr. Atsuko Naono is a Research Associate at the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Oxford. She works on the history of disease and medicine in Southeast Asia, focusing on Burma.  Her research interests include the history of smallpox vaccination in colonial Burma, the history of malaria and malaria control policies in Southeast Asia from the 19th century to the present, and history of medicine and conflict in Southeast Asia. She is currently a member of the new project entitled “ANTITHESES” at Oxford.

Sum Cheuk Shing
H. S. Sum Cheuk Shing is a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His dissertation, titled “Transforming the Body for Health, Protection, and Soteriology: Material Substances in Medieval Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Practices,” explores recipes from the Dunhuang manuscript corpus that simultaneously feature medical, religious, and other adjacent dimensions. In addition to his research on Chinese Buddhist, Daoist, and contiguous practices in premodern China, Sum Cheuk Shing also specializes in the study of contemporary Chinese religion in Hong Kong and among its diasporic communities.

Wayne Tan
Wei Yu Wayne Tan is Associate Professor of History at Hope College in Michigan. He is a historian of disability, science, and medicine in Japan and East Asia. His first book, Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity (University of Michigan Press, 2022), explores the contexts and lived experiences of blindness in Japan at the time. His current research focuses on the intersection of disability, science, and race in the interconnected histories of Asians and Asian Americans.

C. Michele Thompson
C. Michele Thompson specializes in history of medicine, science, and the environment of Southeast Asia, she is Professor of Southeast Asian History at Southern Connecticut State University.  She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, she is the co-editor of Southern Medicine for Southern People: Vietnamese Medicine in the Making, Translating the Body:Medical Education in Southeast Asia, and Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia and she is the author of Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: a Social History.

Chang Xu
Chang Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University. She works on early modern Chinese history with a focus on the global history of medicine, the history of military science and technologies, and the interconnections between human and non-human bodies. My first book project, “Medicine on the March: Military Institutions, Medical Networks, and the Qing Empire, 1644-1800,” offers a social, cultural, and institutional history of medical practices in Qing garrisons. It highlights aspects of classical Chinese medicine as pertinent to non-elite practitioners, compound medicines, and collective healing.

Duygu Yildirim
Duygu Yildirim is assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her PhD in History from Stanford University in 2021. She is the co-editor of Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds (Routledge, 2023) and her articles have appeared in Journal of Early Modern History, British Journal for the History of Science, History of Science, History of Religions, among others. She is currently completing her first monograph, Uncertain Knowledge: The Making of Slow Science between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe.

Genie Yoo
Genie Yoo is a historian of early modern and modern Southeast Asia, working at the intersection of history of science, medicine, and religion. Her book-in-progress explores the entwined history of European and Indigenous knowledge production about plants, medicine, and Islam in the spice islands of eastern Indonesia. She is currently a Plant Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of History at University at Buffalo, SUNY. She received her PhD in History at Princeton University.