PhD in History - East Asian History in Madison United States | University of Wisconsin-Madison

The East Asian History department provides comprehensive comparative and interdisciplinary education covering Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and pan-Asian historical studies. Though our research focuses often overlap meaningfully, our faculty collectively represents diverse methodological perspectives and specialized fields. We actively engage with UW-Madison's dynamic academic network, including the Center for East Asian Studies, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and the East Asia Graduate Student Association.

Faculty expertise spans multiple domains: social, cultural, political, and political-economic histories of traditional, contemporary, and global China; gender studies in modern China; Chinese environmental history and frontier regions; post-colonial Korean cultural and social history; early modern and modern Japanese social, cultural, and political developments; as well as transnational Asian studies encompassing intellectual history, migration patterns, and diaspora communities.