Past Member
Kenneth Michael Swope
Funding provided by the Patrons’ Endowment Fund
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Chinese Military and Social History
From
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Kenneth Swope’s project focuses on the traumatic Ming-Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China by examining the peasant rebel Zhang Xianzhong’s reign of terror in Sichuan province. Using rare contemporary materials and applying techniques from trauma and memory studies and anthropology, Swope will provide a detailed narrative analysis of these events and how they have been remembered.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Fall
Degrees
University of Michigan
Ph.D.
2001