February 2021

Denise Ho co-edits special issue of Made in China Journal to mark anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone

To mark the fortieth anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, Assistant Professor Denise Ho recently co-edited a special issue of the Made in China Journal, published by the Australian National University. Together with Mary Ann O’Donnell and Jonathan Bach, the forum brings together a group of essays under the title, “Transformation of the Shen-Kong Borderlands.”

Society and disease: Lessons on pandemic from the pages of history featuring Naomi Rogers

While doing research as an undergraduate in Australia during the late-1970s, Naomi Rogers stumbled upon some dusty volumes of the British Medical Journal in her university’s medical library. They hadn’t been used in a very long time, but for Rogers — who was searching for debates, from the 1870s and 1880s, about whether women should be admitted to medical schools — there was something “magical” in those pages. At the time torn between a career in music or history, she began to lean toward life as a historian.