Doctoral Candidate Fields of Interest Animal Studies Borderland Studies China Early Modern East Asia Environmental History Historical Geography History of Emotions Political History Social History Biography B.A., History, College of William and Mary, 2017 M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures (History), Columbia University, 2019 Awards 2025 Esherick-Ye Foundation Fellowship, Esherick-Ye Foundation 2025 East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC) Small Grant, Association for Asian Studies 2024-2025 Pre-Modern China Fellowship, University of Washington 2024 Fellowship for Mongolia Field School, American Center for Mongolian Studies 2023 Thomas M. Power Prize for Outstanding Teaching Assistant, University of Washington 2022 Thomas M. Power Prize for the Outstanding Graduate Essay, University of Washington Research Selected Research Zhou, Sue. "Karstic Borderlands and Non-State Power: Environmental Governmentality in the Qing-Era Wuling Mountains." PhD Dissertation, University of Washington, In Progress. Courses Taught Summer 2025HSTAS 321 A: Environmental History of China: From the Birth of the Yangtze River to the Building of the Three Gorges Dam Autumn 2024HSTAA 231 AC: Race and American History HSTAA 231 AF: Race and American History Autumn 2023HSTAM 111 AA: The Ancient World HSTAM 111 AB: The Ancient World Spring 2023HSTEU 210 AA: Paris HSTEU 210 AB: Paris Winter 2023HSTAA 105 AB: The Peoples of the United States HSTAA 105 AE: The Peoples of the United States Spring 2022HSTEU 210 AB: Paris HSTEU 210 AD: Paris Winter 2022HSTAM 112 AA: The Medieval World HSTAM 112 AB: The Medieval World
