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Status: PhD Student

Adviser: Michelle King and Erik Gellman

Graduate Email: ruochenc@unc.edu

Education

B.A. Peking University, 2019
M.A. Sociology, University of Chicago, 2021
M.A. East Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2023

Research Interests

Her research interests lie in gender history, labor history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine in China and its transnational connections in the twentieth century. She focuses on the undervalued women's care labor and explores how skills and knowledge in care work were defined and standardized through scientific discourse and shaped by state ideologies.