Current Visiting Scholars

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Thomas Caubet

Doctoral Student at Université Paris-Cité


His Phd thesis focuses on a comparative study of revolutionary processes. Drawing from a pragmatical perspective and using different social sciences methods (archive work, interviews) his research compares the everyday dimension of two sequences, separated in time and space: the 1871 Paris Commune, and the Occupy Oakland (Oakland Commune), in 2011. More generally, taking a transdisciplinary approach, his work examines the persistence and resurgence of certain revolutionary forms inherited from the past, such as the “commune”.

Charles Chih-Hao Lee

Assistant Research Fellow/Professor, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica


Charles Chih-Hao Lee is an intellectual and social historian, with particular interests in progressive thought and social reform in twentieth-century Britain. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and joined the faculty of the Academia Sinica, Taiwan in 2021. His works have appeared in Modern Intellectual History, Global Intellectual History, and History of Education. (For more information, please visit: https://www1.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/en/Fellows/Chih-Hao_Lee) During his time at Berkeley, he will be working on a monograph that examines how prominent British socialists viewed and advised on China’s modernisation between 1900 and 1960.


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Alison Klairmont Lingo

Research Associate


Yan Liu

Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Historical Geographical Studies, Fudan University


Yan Liu's Ph.D. thesis focuses on the marriage networks in traditional rural China. By leveraging digital geneologies, her research aims to integrate the advanced methods of digital humanities with traditional topics in historical geography. She seeks to identify the relationships among local places under the county level through SNA and GIS, and uncover the social and spatial structures of rural marriage patterns in the Jiangxi region during the Qing Dynasty.

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Liu Qingsong

Professor at the School of Literature, Hebei University


Liu Qingsong is a scholar of Chinese linguistics and literature, who interested in the language and culture of the Han Dynasty in China. He held a doctoral degree from Beijing Normal University and served as a professor at the School of Literature of Hebei University. His works include "The Research on Gonfucian Gloss in Baihutongyi(《白虎通义》)" and "Compilation and Verification of Ancient Etymology". During his time at Berkeley, he will translate his edited and currently being published "Baihutongyi" into English, which is currently the most complete version.


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Pan Xinyuan

PhD Candidate, Department of History, Peking University


Pan Xinyuan's research focuses on 20th-century populism in Latin America, with particular attention to the Democratic Action party in Venezuela and Romulo Betancourt.