Dr.
Brigid Elisabeth Vance
Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung "Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose. Bewältigungsstrategien in Ostasien und Europa"
Hartmannstr. 14
91052 Erlangen
IKGF Visiting Fellow April 2018 – August 2018
(Last change of profile by end of stay)
IKGF Research Project:
Dreaming in Chinese: Explanation, Exorcism, and Divination in the Late Ming
Curriculum Vitae
Education/Training
| 2012 | PhD History, Princeton University |
| 2005 | MA East Asian Studies, Stanford University |
| 2000 | BA Psychology, Carleton College |
Employment/Experience
| since 2015 | Assistant Professor, History Department, Lawrence University |
| 2012-2015 | Assistant Professor, History Program, Colorado State University-Pueblo |
Honors, Awards, and Scholarships
| 2015 | Taiwan Fellowship Program, Taipei |
| 2014-2015 | Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity (RSCA) Productivity Grant, Colorado State University-Pueblo |
| 2011-2012 | Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) Graduate Writing Fellowship |
| 2010-2011 | Academia Sinica Fellowship for Doctoral Candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences (declined) |
| 2009-2010 | Fulbright-IIE, Research Scholar at the Institute for Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2009 | Center for Chinese Studies Research Grant, National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2003-2004 | Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship |
Other Scientific Activities
| since 2018 | Society for Ming Studies, President |
| 2015-2017 | Society for Ming Studies, Board Member |
| since 2014 | Gender Equality in Asian Studies, co-organizer; affiliate group, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) |
Selected Publications
Articles
| 2017 | "Deciphering Dreams: How Glyphomancy Worked in Late Ming Dream Encyclopedic Divination", in: The Chinese Historical Review 24/1, pp. 5-20. |
| 2014 | "Exorcising Dreams and Nightmares in Late Ming China", in: Psychiatry and Chinese History, ed. by Howard Chiang, London: Pickering and Chatto Publishers, pp. 17-36. |
