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Rebecca A. Nedostup is an Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Brown University. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and is a Fellow at Princeton University's Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. Her research focuses on displacement, the social roles of the living and dead amid mass violence, and the critical analysis of state structures in modern China and Taiwan. She is currently writing Living and Dying in the Long War, examining communities displaced by conflicts from the 1930s–1950s. Her first book, Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity, analyzes modern categorization of religious practices. She co-leads the Magpie project for standardized digital source sharing in Chinese studies and directs Brown’s Choices Program for history education.
Her research interests span East Asia, the history of science/medicine, and death studies. She co-organizes the Brown Legal History Workshop and the Modern Asian History Working Group. Her work bridges disciplines, addressing themes like migration, transitional justice, and spatial memory in Taiwan.
Recent publications include analyses of wartime burial practices and the role of the dead in modern China, published in Journal of Chinese History and collaborative volumes. She has contributed to podcasts and media discussions on Chinese religious governance and historical representation.
