Hugh Shapiro 夏互輝
Collaborator
University of Nevada, Reno
Working groups: Local Practices, Global Synergies/Asynergies
Hugh Shapiro is an associate professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. He works on modern China, and on the history of disease in comparative perspective. The analysis of bodily experience is a powerful tool for grappling with historical transformation and his archival and fieldwork in China and Taiwan focus on how cultural practice and geopolitics inflect the experience of physical and psychological trauma. His recent work appears in volumes published by De Gruyter, Brill, and Oxford University Press. He is also interested in the history of de-colonization and authoritarianism, and teaches a course on dictatorship. Shapiro has enjoyed visiting appointments at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan, Shanghai University, the National Taiwan Normal University, Princeton University, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. As a Smithsonian Journeys Expert, he has lectured in 20 countries in Eurasia. He received the Li-Qing Prize for the History of Chinese Science and won his university’s highest teaching award. Shapiro earned his B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University.