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Dr. Avital Rom is a Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES). She holds concurrent positions as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Gulbenkian Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, and Director of Studies at Churchill College. Her research focuses on early Chinese cultural history, particularly the political and social dimensions of sound, music, and disability in pre-imperial and Han dynastic contexts.
Education:
- B.A. in East Asian Studies, Tel-Aviv University (2013)
- MPhil in Chinese Studies, University of Cambridge (2015)
- PhD in Chinese Studies, University of Cambridge (2020)
Research Interests: Intellectual history, disability history, music and authority, cultural historiography of the Warring States and Han periods, and philosophical thought in early China.
Publications: Recent work includes articles in Early China (2017) and Journal of Chinese Military History (2020, award-winning). Upcoming monograph: Polyphonic Thinking: Music and Authority in Early China (Brill, 2025) and edited volume Disability and Bodily Impairment in Early China (Routledge, 2025).
Awards:
- Edward L. Dreyer Prize (2020) for best article in Chinese military history
Teaching: Supervises and teaches Literary Chinese, Chinese dynastic history, and East Asian studies courses at AMES since 2016. Current 2024-25 courses include Literary Chinese I, Chinese Dynastic History, and Introduction to East Asian Studies.
