Baihui Duan

Dr. Baihui Duan is Lecturer in Environmental History at Lancaster University, having previously served as Postdoctoral Researcher (2022-2024) on the ERC-funded Aftermath Project at the University of Oxford and Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her doctoral research received cum laude distinction from UAB.

Her scholarship examines war-environment-disease intersections in historical East Asia, particularly following the Imjin War (1592-1598). Combining historical analysis with geospatial methods, she studies how epidemics influenced migration, disaster response, medical practices, and governance systems in pre-modern Korea. Her work demonstrates how disease impacts extended beyond Korea to shape regional military strategy, commerce, diplomacy, and medical knowledge circulation.

Honors include Cambridge University Press's William Bynum Essay Prize (2023) for research on soldier welfare during wartime and the Society for Military History's Vandervort Prize (2023) for forest resource management during conflict. Her publications establish connections between environmental crises and infectious disease management in pre-modern East Asia.