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Rebecca Nedostup is an Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Brown University, specializing in modern Chinese and Taiwanese history. Her research explores the intersections of displacement, death rituals, religion, secularism, and state-building during wartime and postwar transitions (1927–1955). She is Faculty Director for the Choices Program, advancing secondary education on historical and current issues, and co-organizes the Brown Legal History Workshop and Modern Asian History Working Group.
- Education:
- PhD in History (Columbia University, 2001)
- MPhil (Columbia, 1996)
- MA (Columbia, 1995)
- BA (Harvard, 1989)
Her research centers on mass violence, migration, and the politicization of burial practices. She examines how displacement across China and Taiwan reshaped community identities, kinship, and state control over the dead. Her work integrates archival research, oral histories, and interdisciplinary methodologies to analyze the material and symbolic repatriation of war dead.
Recent publications focus on rituals during wartime, environmental ethics in Chinese religions, and the legacy of Nationalist governance. Her awards include the ICAS Book Prize 2011 for Superstitious Regimes. She teaches courses on modern Chinese history, historical memory, and the social lives of the dead.
- Scientific Awards:
- International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize (2011)
Her teaching includes undergraduate and graduate courses on modern East Asia, borderlands history, and comparative transitional justice. She collaborates with scholars globally and contributes to digital humanities through projects like the Brown University Research Seed Award (2018) and Cogut Institute grants (2020–21).
