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Telephone: (617) 552-3017 Office Location: 21 Campanella Way, 450 Email: rebecca.nedostup.1@bc.edu Curriculum Vitae: please click here |
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2001
Fields of Interest
Modern China; social, cultural and political history; religion, nationalism and modernity
Academic Profile
Professor Nedostup's research interests include the relationship between mass politics, popular culture, and social power in the twentieth century; religion and the nation-state; and urban and spatial history. Her forthcoming book, Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity, examines the execution of Nationalist government campaigns against Chinese popular religious practice, 1927-1937. Her new research investigates displacement, community and ideas of home in wartime and postwar China and Taiwan. Professor Nedostup offers courses on Asian & world history, modern Chinese history, and Chinese urban, religious and cultural history, as well as graduate colloquia on modernity, religion and nationalism and on ritual studies in history.
Representative Publications
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“Ritual Competition and the Modernizing Nation-State,” in Mayfair Mei-hui Yang, ed., Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation (University of California Press, forthcoming 2008.
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“Two Tombs: Thoughts on Zhu Yuanzhang, the Kuomintang, and the Meanings of National Heroes," in Sarah K. Schneewind, ed., Long Live the Emperor!:The Uses of the Ming Founder Across Six Centuries of East Asian History (Society for Ming Studies, 2008)
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“Civic Faith and Hybrid Ritual in Nationalist China,” in Dennis Washburn and A. Kevin Reinhart, ed., Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology, and Transformations of Modernity (Leiden: Brill, 2007), 27-56.
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The China Gateway - a resource site for students of Chinese history
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"Begging the Sages of the Party-State": Citizenship and Government in Transition in Nationalist China, 1927-37," with Liang Hong-ming, International Review of Social History, 2001 Supplement (also published as Lex Heerma van Voss, ed., Petitions in Social History [2002]).