Timothy Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Pacific University (Oregon, USA). His teaching and research interests include East Asian history, imperialism, the history of science and medicine, the history of business and capitalism, and the relationship between history and memory. His book manuscript, currently titled, "Drugs and the Business of Empire in Modern Japan," is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. Dr. Yang received his doctorate in History from Columbia University in 2013.
Timothy Yang
Assistant Professor in the Department of History
Pacific University
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Global Asian Health Humanities: Colonialisms and Imperialisms
February 24, 2017
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Toward Global Histories of Pharmaceuticals in East Asia
This brief essay considers the history of pharmaceuticals in East Asia. It begins with a discussion of the burgeoning popularity of cultural and social histories of modern medicine in East Asia, and it describes the benefits and potential pitfalls of examining medicines as commodities.
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Latest Blogs
- Transgender Studies: Course Listings & Sample Reading List October 15, 2019
- FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows holds second annual symposium June 7, 2018
- Table of Contents for Humanities Futures Papers December 4, 2017
- Instructor Guest Post: Building Global Audiences for the Franklin Humanities Institute September 25, 2017
- Announcing new cohort of FHI-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellows (2017-18) August 19, 2017
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Latest Papers
- Academic Precarity in American Anthropology
- After the Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad in South Asia
- Climate Change, Cultures, Territories, Nonhumans, and Relational Knowledges in Colombia
- Clive Bell’s "Significant Form" and the Neurobiology of Aesthetics
- The New Humanities?
- Health, Illness, and Memory
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- An Interview with David Novak, UC Santa Barbara
- “The Education of Bruno Latour: From the Critical Zone to the Anthropocene” Feature-Length Documentary
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- Craig Klugman: Future Trends in Health Humanities Publishing and Pedagogy
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