2024-25 Residency Research Fellow
About
Joseph W. Ho is associate professor of history at Albion College and a center associate at the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. He is a historian of modern East Asia, Sino-US encounters, and transnational visual culture and media. He is the co-editor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937–1938 (Lehigh University Press, 2017) and author of Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2022). In addition to the EIHS Residency Research Fellowship, Ho will be the EDS-Stewart Distinguished Research Fellow at Boston College in 2024–2025.
During his fellowship, Professor Ho will be working on his new monograph, Bamboo Wireless: Mediating the Cold War in Asia, which explores how vernacular media created by Chinese refugee groups in diaspora and American expatriates expelled from mainland China profoundly shaped transnational representations of the Cold War.
