Emily Hill

Emily Hill is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Queen's University. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Modern China from Cornell University (1996). Her research focuses on China's political and economic development between 1931-1958, with a new project examining the political economy of agriculture in mainland China and Taiwan since the 1950s. Her work explores land reform, industrialization, and state-building processes.

Key publications include Smokeless Sugar (2010) analyzing provincial bureaucracy and national economic construction, and an upcoming monograph on Chiang Kai-shek's critical years (2025). Recent scholarship includes a 2022 article on state-building during China's war period. She teaches courses like Contemporary China and Modern East Asia, and supervises graduate students focusing on twentieth-century Chinese history.

Her academic activities include administrative roles at Queen's University and maintaining an active research agenda on transnational agricultural policies and environmental history.