Curriculum Vitae

Liping Wang
Department of Sociology
1126 E. 59th St., Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: (773) 226-7829
E-mail: lipingwang110@gmail.com
EMPLOYMENT

2013-

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Haverford College.

EDUCATION

2013

Ph.D., Sociology, The University of Chicago.

Dissertation: Ethnicizing the Frontier: Imperial Transformation
and Ethnic Confrontations in China-Inner Mongolia,
1890s-1930s
Committee: Andrew Abbott (chair), Julia Adams, Peter Perdue
(history), Dingxin Zhao.
M.A., Sociology, Peking University, China.
B.A. (Distinction), Sociology, Peking University, China.

2004
2001

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Political Sociology; Social Theory; Comparative Historical Sociology;

Ethnic Studies; Empire, Colonialism and Knowledge; Modern and
Contemporary China
PUBLICATIONS

2013

2011

2011

In Chinese:
2006

2004

State, Relational Governance and Nomads Sedentarization: Land

Reform in Inner Mongolia, 1900-1911. Comparative Studies in
Society and History (forthcoming).
Interlocking Patrimonialisms and State Formation in Qing China and
Early Modern Europe. The Annals: The American Academy of
Political and Social Sciences 636:164-181. (First author, written with
Julia Adams.)
Bridging the Gap Between China and Europe.(Podcast, with Julia
Adams)
http://aapss.org/the-annals/recent-volumes/2011/08/11/julia-adams-a
nd-liping-wang-bridging-the-gap-between-china-and-europe
From Trauerspiel to Asceticism: a Comparison of Walter Benjamins
Theory of German Tragedy and Max Webers Theory of Science.
Society and Thought, Vol.6, 308-382.
The Sacredness of Society: an Interpretation of Emile Durkheims
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Society and Thought,
Vol.4, 517-535.

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2002

The Stranger in Georg Simmels Texts. Society and Thought, Vol. 2,

398-424.
Translation
2002
Weber, Mariane. Max Weber: A Biography. (Chapters 14-16).
Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin chubanshe.
MANUSCRIPT UNDER REVIEW

From Masterful Brokers to Compliant Protges: Shifting Governing

Relationships and the Rise of Ethnic Confrontation in China-Inner
Mongolia, 1900-1930. Revised & Resubmited to American Journal
of Sociology.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS

A Fractured Regime: The Production of Social Scientific Knowledge

of Ethnicity in Republican China, 1911-1930.
Adams, Julia and Liping Wang. Sovereignty of Boundaries in
European and Chinese/Mongolian Empires.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Courses:
Haverford College:
Foundations in Social Theory. Fall 2013.
Ethnicity and Nationalism: a Comparative Perspective. Fall 2013.
The University of Chicago:
Ethnicity and Nationalism: a Comparative Perspective. Spring 2013. (Prize
Lecturer)
Empire and Nation. Fall 2009. (Prize Lecturer)
Inner Mongolian University:
Comparative Studies of Empire and Nationalism. Summer 2011.(Guest
Lecturer)
Preceptor:
Preceptor in International Studies. 2012-2013. The University of Chicago.
Teaching Assistant:
China in East Asian Civilizations (I): History of Beijing (taught by Prof. James
Hevia).Social Sciences Core Course, The University of Chicago. Fall 2011.
China in East Asian Civilizations (II): Revolutions and Rebellions in Modern
Chinese History (taught by Prof. Zhao Dingxin). Social Sciences Core
Course, The University of Chicago. Fall 2011.
China in East Asian Civilizations (III): Urban-Rural Development in Modern
China (taught by Prof. Jacob Eyferth). Social Sciences Core Course, The
University of Chicago. Fall 2011.

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AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2011-2012

Dissertation Fellowship. Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for

International Scholarly Exchange (USA).
2010-2011 William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship. Division of Social
Sciences, The University of Chicago.
2010
OYCF-Gregory C. and Paula K. Chow Teaching Fellowship.
Overseas Young Chinese Forum.
2009
Robert E. Park Lectureship. Department of Sociology, The
University of Chicago.
2008-2009 Dissertation Writing Fellowship. Center of East Asian Studies, The
University of Chicago.
2007
The Provost Summer Funding. The University of Chicago.
2007
Honors for the special field exam (State and Family), Department of
Sociology, The University of Chicago.
TRAVEL GRANTS

2011
2011
2011
2010
2009
2008

Doolittle Harrison Award. Office of Graduate Affairs. The University

of Chicago.
Conference Travel Grant. Center of Eastern Asian Studies, The
University of Chicago.
Conference Travel Grant. Center of Comparative Research, Yale
University
Research Travel Grant. Orin Williams Fund, Division of Social
Sciences, The University of Chicago.
Rockefeller Travel Grant. Social Science History Association.
Conference Travel Grant. Center of Comparative Research, Yale
University.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS

2013

2011

2011

2011

2011

Judicial Boundaries and Ethnic Formation in the China-Inner

Mongolia frontier, 1900-1930. Social Science History Association
38th Annual Meeting, November 21-24.Chicago, IL
Liberal Nationalism in the Contemporary World. School of
Ethnology and Sociology, Inner Mongolian University. Hohhot,
China.
Land Reform, Revolution and Political Stability in Inner Mongolia,
1900-1916. A Hundred Years of Quest: The Rise of China,
1911-2011, An International Symposium, August 27-28. Beijing,
China.
The Rise of Ethnic Confrontation: State Collapse and Inner
Mongolian Nationalism, 1900-1930. American Sociological
Association 106th Annual Meeting, August 20-23. Las Vegas, NV.
State and Nomads Sedentarization: Land Reform in Inner Mongolia,
1900-1911. The Graduate Student Conference Frontiers of
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2010

2010

2009

2009

2009

2008

Sociological Research, the Center of Comparative Research, Yale

University. New Haven, CT.
State and Nomads Sedentarization: Land Reform in Inner Mongolia,
1900-1911. and The Rise of Ethnic Confrontation: State Collapse
and the Inner Mongolian Nationalism, 1900-1930. Social Science
History Association 35th Annual Meeting, November 18-21. Chicago,
IL.
From Feudalism to Patrimonialism: Chinese Imperial Crisis and the
Transformation of Inner Mongolian Frontier, 1890-1920. The 8th
Michigan China Forum. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The Complex Course of Ethnic Accommodation: the Experiments in
Liberal Ethnopolicy on Chinese Frontier, 1930-1950. Social Science
History Association 34th Annual Meeting, November 12-15. Long
Beach, CA.
Depoliticizing the Frontier: Functional Anthropology in Frontier
Knowledge Production in China, 1930s-1940s. Graduate Student
Conference Frontiers of Sociological Research, the Center of
Comparative Research, Yale University. New Haven, CT.
Approaches to Historical Sociology and their Implication for China
Studies. Department of Sociology, Shanghai University. Shanghai,
China.
Contested Knowledge Production on Ethnicity under the Nationalist
Regime of China, 1927-1949, School of Law at Southwestern
University of Finance and Economics. Chengdu, China.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2011

Program Assistant. Undergraduate Studying Abroad Program in

Beijing. The University of Chicago.
2010-2011 Manuscript Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology.
2009Occasional Reviewer, American Journal of Sociology.

Local Presentations:
2011
Territorialization and Ethnic Formation: Mongolian Nationalism in
Hulun Buir, 1890-1930. East Asia Workshop: Politics, Economy and
Society, The University of Chicago.
2010
From Feudalism to Patrimonialism: Chinese Imperial Crisis and the
Transformation of the Inner Mongolian Frontier, 1890-1920. East
Asia Workshop: Politics, Economy and Society, The University of
Chicago.
2009
Depoliticizing the Frontier: the Functional Break in Conceptualizing
and Managing the Frontier of China, 1930s-1940s. East Asia
Workshop: Politics, Economy and Society, The University of
Chicago.
2008
Rivalry Writings over Frontiers: Competitive Knowledge Production
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in China, 1927-1949. East Asia Workshop: Politics, Economy and

Society, The University of Chicago.
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP

American Sociological Association

Social Science History Association
Association for Asian Studies
LANGUAGE COMPETENCE

Chinese native, English fluent, German scholarly

REFERENCES

Andrew Abbott (Chair), Professor

Department of Sociology, The University of Chicago
Phone: (773) 702-4545; Fax: (773) 702-4849
E-mail: a-abbott@uchicago.edu
Dingxin Zhao, Professor
Department of Sociology, The University of Chicago
Phone: (773) 702-4088; Fax: (773) 702-4849
E-mail: dzhao@uchicago.edu
Julia Adams, Professor
Department of Sociology, Yale University
Phone: (203) 432-3332
E-mail: Julia.adams@yale.edu
Peter Perdue, Professor
Department of History, Yale University
Phone: (203) 432-6145
E-mail: peter.c.perdue@yale.edu
Mark Gould, Professor
Department of Sociology, Haverford College
Phone: (610) 896-1489
E-mail: mgould@haverford.edu