Janet Theiss
Associate Professor, History
Director, Asian Studies Program
Associate Professor, Asian Studies Program
Associate Professor, Asian History
Associate Professor, Colonialism and Imperialism
Associate Professor, Comparative Gender and Sexuality
Associate Professor, Religious History
History
Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building
215 S. Central Campus Dr. Rm 310
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112
Office: 255 CTIHB
Office Hours: By appointment
Office Phone: 585-6477
Email:
>> Curriculum Vitae
Degrees:
1998 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
1986 B.A. Swarthmore College
Selected Publications:
Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China
(Book), 2004
"Female Suicide, Subjectivity, and the State in Eighteenth-Century China"
(Journal Article), 2004
[citation]
"Managing Martyrdom: Female Suicide and Statecraft in Mid-Qing China"
(Journal Article), 2001
[citation]
Research Keywords, Regions of Interest and Languages:
Keywords:
Late Imperial Chinese History; Comparative Gender History (2); Chinese Legal History
Research Projects
The Perils of Intimacy [details]
Current Courses
HIST 3510-1 Modern China
HIST 6930-1 Sp St-Asian History
Courses I Teach
HIST 1220 Asian Civ: Modern Hist
HIST 3500 Pre-Modern China
HIST 3510 Modern China
HIST 4530 Women In Asia
HIST 4860 Environmental History of China
HIST 4865 Gender, Race & Empire in Asia
HIST 6530 Women in Asia
HIST 6860 Environmental History of China
HIST 6865 Gender, Race and Empire in Asia
HIST 6930 Sp St-Asian History
HIST 6970 Thesis Research-Masters
HIST 7240 Comp Hist Women & Gend