Norman Apter

Norman Apter was a Professor of History at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, specializing in twentieth-century Chinese social and cultural history. He taught there from 2011 until his passing on February 8, 2014, due to melanoma. A scholar of modern China’s child relief movement and the histories of children and childhood, his work critically examined intersections of state, society, and social policy.

Dr. Apter earned his Ph.D. in History from UCLA in Summer 2013 under advisors Philip Huang and Kathryn Bernhardt. His dissertation, Saving the Young: A History of the Child Relief Movement in Modern China, remains his most notable academic contribution. Though no specific articles or awards are listed here, his research focused on understudied aspects of China’s social welfare history during the 20th century.

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