Daniel Asen

Daniel Asen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, Newark. His work focuses on the social and cultural contexts of science and medicine in late imperial and twentieth-century China, with a particular emphasis on transnational and global perspectives.

• Specializes in the history of forensic science and legal medicine during China's transition from empire to modern nation-state.
• Affiliated with the American Historical Association, Association for Asian Studies, and International Society for Chinese Law and History.
• Research explores intersections of modernity, state-building, and shifting meanings of death in urban China.

In his 2016 book Death in Beijing, Asen analyzes how traditional Chinese forensic practices adapted to new political and social demands in Republican-era Beijing, highlighting contested visions of scientific expertise and modern governance. His publications appear in journals like Social History of Medicine and East Asian Science, Technology and Society.