Joseph W. Ho

Joseph W. Ho 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), co-author of Time Exposures: Catholic Photography and the Evolution of Modern China (Hong Kong University Press, under contract), and author of Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2022).

Ho has held fellowships at Stanford University, the University of San Francisco, and Boston College, as well as the EIHS Residency Research Fellowship at the University of Michigan. He serves as the series editor for Studies in Christianity in East Asia at Lehigh University Press. Before rejoining the Department of History and EIHS, he was associate professor of East Asian history at Albion College.