Prof. Dr.
David A. Bello
Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung "Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose. Bewältigungsstrategien in Ostasien und Europa"
IKGF Visiting Fellow June 2016 - September 2016
IKGF Research Project
The Ethological Theodicy of Locust Infestation in Early Modern China
Education
2002-2003 | Post-Doctoral Fellow in Chinese history, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University. |
2001 | Ph.D. in Chinese History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Dissertation: “Opium and the Limits of Empire, the Opium Problem in the Chinese Interior, 1729-1850” |
1989 | MA in Area Studies/Far East, University of London |
Positions and Honours
Employment/Experience
2016 | Professor of East Asian History, Washington & Lee University |
2008 | Associate Professor of East Asian History, Washington & Lee University |
2004 | Assistant Professor of East Asian History, Washington & Lee University |
2001 | Assistant Professor of East Asian History, Southern Connecticut State U |
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Honors, Awards and Scholarships
2014 | The Herodotus Fund for membership at the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ |
2006 | American Council of Learned Societies American Research in the Humanities in China/National Endowment for the Humanities for Scholarly Research in the People’s Republic of China |
2006 | J. Wm. Fulbright Scholarship Board/Council for International Exchange of Scholars, China Studies Research Grant (Award #5110) for Scholarly Research in the People’s Republic of China. |
2002 | Post-Doctoral Fellow in Chinese history, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University |
Other Scientific Activities
May 2016 | Visiting Professor, Dept. of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University |
Selected Publications
Books
2016 | Across Forest, Steppe and Mountain: Environment, Identity and Empire in Qing China’s Borderlands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
2005 | Opium and the Limits of Empire, Drug Prohibition in the Chinese Interior, 1729-1850. Cambridge (MA): Harvard Council on East Asian Studies. |
Articles
| Ecological Change and Resource Constraints, in: Richard von Glahn and Debin Ma (Eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of China, Volume 1, To 1800 (forthcoming). |
2014 | Relieving Mongols of their Pastoral Identity: The Environment of Disaster Management on the 18th Century Qing China Steppe, in: Environmental History 19.3, pp. 480-504. |
2014 | Environmental Issues in Pre-modern China, in: Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies (http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/chinese-studies). Oxford University Press. |