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Joan Judge is a Professor of History at York University in Toronto, Canada, specializing in cultural history of modern China with focuses on knowledge cultures, print culture, and women’s history. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and additional degrees from the University of Alberta and the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris.
Education:
- PhD, Columbia University
- MA, Columbia University
- MA, Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris
- BA, University of Alberta
Research Interests: Judge’s work examines print culture in comparative perspective, Chinese women’s history, and reading practices in modern China. Her scholarship bridges transnational and local contexts, exploring how media like periodicals shaped gender roles and political discourse during transformative periods such as the late Qing dynasty and the early 20th century.
Awards:
- 2021 Guggenheim Fellow
- Member of the Royal Society of Canada
Grants & Leadership: Her current SSHRC-funded project, The Politics of Common Reading, analyzes vernacular knowledge in China from 1894–1954. She serves on the advisory boards of the British Inter-university China Centre and Journal of the History of Ideas in East Asia, and chairs roles in professional associations like the Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture.
Labs/Teams: Collaborates with global networks through her editorial work on collections such as Women and the Periodical Press in China’s Global Twentieth Century and Beyond Exemplar Tales.
