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Rebecca Robinson serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Montreal, with office C-6112 in Pavillon Lionel-Groulx. Contactable via rebecca.robinson@umontreal.ca or 514 343-6111 ext. 41438, she teaches core courses including HST1061 (History of China since the 16th Century) and HST2618 (China in the 20th Century).
Her research specializes in Han Dynasty history through comparative analysis with the Roman Empire, examining intersections of religion and political power, environmental management systems (particularly Yellow River flood control), and historical surveillance networks. She investigates how calendrical science and weather prognostication served imperial statecraft, with notable focus on ritual practices and knowledge systems that reinforced imperial legitimacy in antiquity.
Publications from 2018-2023 reveal consistent thematic evolution: early work on imperial spectacle (2018) expanded into environmental history (2023 flood control study) and calendrical science (2020-2021), culminating in her 2023 Oxford monograph on imperial cults. Her scholarship bridges historical methodology with religious studies and history of science, demonstrating how cross-cultural parallels illuminate universal mechanisms of imperial governance through ritual, environmental management, and knowledge systems.
