Ph.D. Secondary Teaching Field
Each Ph.D. student also prepares a second teaching field different from the primary area of research interest and can choose from among Borderlands and Transnationalism, East Asian, European, Critical Race and Indigeneity, Gender and Sexuality, Latin American, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Science, Technology and Environment, U.S., and World History.
- Pronouns he, him, his, his, himself
- Title
- Associate Professor
- Department
- History Department
- Affiliations History of Consciousness Department
- Phone 831-459-5270 (office)
- Fax 831-459-1925
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 536 Humanities 1
- Office Hours Fall 2024: Monday 10-11 AM
- Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA 95064
Research Interests
Early Modern China (1600-1900), the history of science and technology, the humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, and the rise of China in World Politics.
Biography, Education and Training
Ph.D., History, UCLA
MS, Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech
BS, Civil Engineering, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Selected Publications
Hu, Minghui. Waiting for the Barbarians: A History of Geopolitics in Early Modern China, Cambria Press, 2025.
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.