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University of California, Santa Barbara

History Philosophy Medicine Cultural History History of Philosophy History of Science Gender Studies

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Ya Zuo is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair (2024-2025) in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a cultural and intellectual historian of middle and late imperial China whose highly interdisciplinary work crosses subfields including intellectual history, the history of science, technology, and medicine, the history of emotions, gender studies, sensory history, and the history of the book. Her broad perspective illuminates ideas and knowledge in pre-modern China. Zuo holds a B.A. in History from Peking University and a Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University, where she received fellowships such as the 2011 Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Doctoral Fellowship and the 2010 Ph.D. Writing Completion Fellowship. At UCSB, she teaches courses including HIST 184B History of China (sixth to seventeenth centuries), HIST 184T History of Traditional Chinese Thought, HIST 184R History of Chinese Medicine, HIST 2B World History, HIST 80 Chinese Civilization, and HIST 201C Emotions in History: Multidisciplinary Approaches.