Marijn Fennema 范海峰
Research Assistant
York University
Working group: Digital Humanities
Marijn Fennema is a doctoral student at York University specializing in the sociocultural history of China during the Qing and Republican periods. His research investigates the history of Nuosu-Yi (Yi) ethnomedicine in the borderlands of Southwestern China and its intersections with ecology and state-making. He seeks to understand how local ecologies shaped Yi medicinal and spiritual practices, how increased settlement transformed the environments inhabited by Yi communities, and how Chinese literati, officials, and travelers represented Yi medicinal, environmental, and spiritual practices. His project draws on sources written in both Chinese and the traditional Yi script and combines close reading with digital humanities methods.
Marijn holds a BA in Human Geography from the University of Amsterdam, an MA in Political Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and a Research MA in Asian Studies from Leiden University.