East Asian Studies
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Chinese Studies
Gulbenkian Junior Research Fellow, Churchill College
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Churchill College
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Churchill College
Biography:
I research early Chinese cultural history, with a focus on the social and political aspects of hearing, sound, and silence in early China (roughly 4th century BCE – 2nd century AD).
I earned my BA in East Asian Studies (2013) from Tel-Aviv University; and my MPhil (2015) and PhD (2020) in Chinese Studies from the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Roel Sterckx. Following my graduation, I held postdoctoral positions at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge (2021) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2021-22). My research to date has been published in the peer-reviewed journals Early China (CUP, 2017) and the Journal of Chinese Military History (Brill, 2020, winner of the Edward L. Dreyer prize for the best article in Chinese military history by an early career-scholar).
Currently, I am finalising the manuscript for a monograph based on my doctoral dissertation, titled Polyphonic Thinking: Music and Authority in Early China (upcoming, Brill). The study examines the rhetorical and political functions of music in the Warring States (453-221 BCE) and Western Han (206 BCE – 9 CE) periods. My edited volume, titled Disability and Bodily Impairment in Early China: Other Bodies, will be available in print on March 2025 (Routledge, Needham Research Institute series).
Teaching responsibilities:
I have been supervising and teaching courses at AMES since 2016. During the 2024-25 academic year, I will teach and supervise Literary Chinese I (C3), Chinese Dynastic History (C7), and Introduction to East Asian Studies (EAS1).
Research interests:
Various topics in early Chinese historiography (esp. Warring States and Han periods), including intellectual history, cultural history, disability history, music and politics, and philosophical thought.