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Hung, Kuang-Chi
Associate Professor
Office: Room 407, Department of Geography
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Phone: +886-2-33665826
Kuang-chi Hung received his PhD in the history of science from Harvard University in 2013, and carried on his postdoctoral research at the Smithsonian Institution and Needham Research Institute, respectively. He is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, National Taiwan University. Hung’s research concerns the history of evolutionary theory, the history of geography, and the geography of scientific knowledge. Currently he is revising his dissertation, under the title “Finding Patterns in Nature: Asa Gray’s Plant Geography and Collecting Networks,” for publication, and initiating a new project tentatively titled “China as a field,” which deals with the Smithsonian Institution’s archaeological expeditions in China during the early twentieth century.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D. Department of the History of Science, September 2006-November 2013
Dissertation, “Finding Patterns in Nature: Asa Gray’s Plant Geography and Collecting Networks (1830s-1860s).”
Committee members: Janet Browne, Shigehisa Kuriyama, Henrietta Harrison, Donald H. Pfister
Examination fields: Environmental History and the History of Biology (Janet E. Browne), History of the Body (Shigehisa Kuriyama), Modern Japanese History (Ian J. Miller), Modern Chinese History (Henrietta Harrison)
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Exchange Student, University Archives, April 2012-October 2012
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Ph.D. Student. School of Forestry and Natural Conservation, September 2000-February 2005
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
M.S. Department of Forestry, September 1998-June 2000
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
B.S. Department of Forestry, September 1994-June 1998
history of science, science; technology, and society (STS); environmental history
Nature, Society, and Nature
Geography and Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Introduction to Environmental History
Post-doctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, 2014.
D. Kim Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2013-2015
Exchange Student Fellowship, D. Kim Foundation, 2012
Baird Society Resident Scholarship, Smithsonian Institution, 2012
Dibner History of Science Program, Huntington Library, 2011
Dissertation Research Fellowship, Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science, 2011.
Dissertation Research Fellowship, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 2011
The Merit/Term Time Research Award, Harvard University, 2011 (declined)
Summer Research Grant, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University 2010
Summer Research Grant, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University, 2010
Erwin Hiebert Grant for Travel and Research, Harvard University, 2010
Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, 2009
Fellowship, Satoh Artcraft Research & Scholarship Foundation, 2009
Graduate Summer Language Grant for East, South, and Southeast Asian Language Study, Asia Center, Harvard University, 2009
Erwin Hiebert Grant for Summer Research, Harvard University, 2008
Taiwan Ministry of Education Studying Abroad Fellowship Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 2006-2008
Doctoral fellowship, Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2006-2009
