Faculty

You Wang

Harper-Schmidt Fellow

Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Collegiate Assistant Professor
Civilization Studies Core: Introduction to the Civilizations of East Asia

You Wang

王悠 Wáng Yōu (she/they) is an economic and environmental historian of early modern and modern China. Her current book project, Crafting the Waterscape: Environmental Governance and Rural Communities of the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1500-1850, examines the everyday interactions of village women and men with water- and landscapes in China's economic center through hydraulic institutions, agricultural knowledge production, and a gendered labor regime. She is also interested in continuing exploring the intertwinement of the environment, gender, and the market through the lens of vernacular religion and global trade.

Wáng received her doctoral degree in History from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2022. She is also an alumna of the University of Chicago (A.M. '14) and Zhejiang University (Bachelor of Economics '12). More information of her can be found in her website: https://sites.google.com/view/wangyou.