Melissa Macauley

Late imperial and modern China (18th to 21st centuries)

Office: 304 Harris
Phone: 847-491-3418
E-mail: m-macauleynorthwestern.edu

Melissa Macauley (Ph.D. Berkeley, 1993) specializes in late imperial and modern Chinese history. Her research interests include social history and legal culture, the Chinese in Southeast Asia, and the problem of transnational crime in the context of migration and trade. Her first book, Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China (1998) was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 1999. Her work has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, Fulbright-Hays (Department of Education), and the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, among others. She has also served as the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Studies at Harvard University and as a Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Qing History at People's University (Beijing). She is currently working on a book titled Crime and Migration in the South China Seas, 1856-1945. She was awarded a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1999.

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