Nicole Barnes
E-mail:
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
Cohort Year:
2006
First Field:
Chinese History
Second Field:
World History
Research Interests:
History of Medicine and Public Health, Gender, the Nationalist State in China (1911-1949), Chinese ethnicities and border regions.
Advisors:
Ken Pomeranz and Jeff Wasserstrom
Dissertation Title:
"Protecting the National Body: Gender and Public Health in Southwest China during the War with Japan, 1937-1945"
Awards:
- U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 2010-2011.
- Taiwan National Library Center for Chinese Studies Research Grant for Foreign Scholars, 2010.
- University of California Pacific Rim Research Program (PRRP) Dissertation Research Grant, 2009-2010.
- UCI Center for Asian Studies Research Grant, 2009-2010.
- Outstanding Graduate Leader Award, UCI Humanities Out There (HOT) Program, June 2008.
- UCI International Center for Writing and Translation (ICWT) Summer Research Grant, 2007 and 2009.
- Association for Asian Studies China and Inner Asia Council Travel Grant, 2009-2010.
- Rockefeller Archive Center Grant-in-Aid, 2009.
- University of California Pacific Rim Research Program (PRRP) Mini-Grant, 2007-2008, 2008-2009.
- University of California, Irvine Humanities Research Center Grant, 2008-2009.
- Taiwan Ministry of Education Huayu Fellowship for language study in Taiwan, 2007.
- Chancellor's Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, 2006-2011.
- "Best Should Teach" Silver Award, University of Colorado Graduate Teacher Program, August 2003.
- Ta-Tuan Ch'en Scholarship Fund, Middlebury College at Middlebury, Vermont, Summer 2000.
- Most Outstanding Student Award, Chinese Summer Language Program, Middlebury College, 2000.
- Barrett Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, 1999-2000.
Publications:
- “Disease in the Capital: Nationalist Health Services and the “Sick (Wo)man of East Asia” in Wartime Chongqing,” European Journal of East Asian Studies (forthcoming December 2012).
- “Writing Public Health: Medical Hybridization in Wartime Chongqing,” in Howard Yuen-feng Choy, ed., Discourses of Disease (Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2012) (forthcoming).
- “Dr. Basil: An American Medical Missionary in Chongqing,” in Cultural Foundations: Historical Materials of Nan’an District, Chongqing (Chongqing: Nan’an Zhengxie Publishing House, 2011): 255-261. In Chinese.
- “The Rockefeller Foundation’s China Medical Board and Medical Philanthropy in Wartime China, 1938-1945,” in Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports Online, 2009.(http://www.rockarch.org/publications/resrep/barnes.php)
- “Where Were China’s Women on 08/08/08?” and “Wolf Totem: Romanticized Essentialization” in Kate Merkel-Hess et al., eds. China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
Degrees:
- B.A., Foreign Languages, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, 1999.
- M.A., Chinese History, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2004.
- M.A., Chinese Literature, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2004.
