Faculty by Undergraduate Concentration
All history majors select a geographic region of concentration as their primary area of study: Americas and Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe and the Mediterranean World. Majors are encouraged to get to know the faculty in their region of concentration as early as possible.
History majors are also encouraged to carve out their own unique thematic research pathway — religion, social movements, science and environment, and gender, to name a few — and to get to know the history faculty who specialize in those research areas.
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Affiliations East Asian Studies
- Phone
- Fax 831-459-1925
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 536 Humanities 1
- Office Hours Winter 2020: Wednesday 9–10 AM
- Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
- Faculty Areas of Expertise History, Asian Studies, China, Communism, History of Science, Chinese, History of Philosophy, Pacific Rim, Taiwan, Science Studies
- Courses HIstory 40A: Early Modern East Asia; History 140B: The Rise and Fall of the Qing Empire; History 194M: Literati, Samurai, and Yangban: History of Elite Formation in East Asia; History 230A: Readings in Late Imperial China; History 101D: Topics in World History of Science
Research Interests
Early Modern China (1600-1900), Intellectual history of modern China. History of science and technology in China.
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D., History, UCLA
MS, Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech
BS, Civil Engineering, Tamkang University
Honors, Awards and Grants
Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellowship, 2003-05
Chiang Ching-kuo Cultural Exchange Foundation Junior Scholar Grant, 2006
Andrew Mellon Fellowship, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge University, 2007
UCSC Academic Senate Committee on Research Grant, 2007
UCSC Institute for Humanities Research fellowship, 2007
UCSC Academic Senate Committee on Research Grant, 2008
Ricci Institute Research Fellowship at the University of San Francisco, 2009
Academia Sinica Research Grant, 2010-13
Chiang Ching-kuo Conference grant, 2011-2012
Selected Publications
Hu, Minghui. “The Scholar’s Robe: Material Culture and Political Power in Early Modern China.” Frontier of History in China 11.3 (September 2016): 339–375.
Hu, Minghui, and Elverskog, Johan (eds). Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600-1950. Cambria Sinophone World Series. Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2016.
Hu, Minghui. China's Transition to Modernity: The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen. Seattle, Wash.: Univ. of Washington Press, 2015.
