Current Member
Kaijun Chen
Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Member
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
History of Technology, Material Culture
Home Institution
Brown University
Kaijun Chen is interested in the history of ceramics, technocracy, and global transfer of technology and design. While at IAS, he will be working on a book manuscript that investigates the state’s negotiation with local factories and foreign manufacturers in the dozen state-owned porcelain factories in China from the 1970s to 1990s.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Degrees
Columbia University in the City of New York
Ph.D.
2014
Honors
2019
Henry-Luce/ACLS Fellowship
2011
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge
Appointments
Brown University
2016
Assistant Professor