Dr. Maura Dykstra

Affiliate Researcher

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Main Focus

• Comparative early modern empire
• History of bureaucracy
• Political economy
• Ming and Qing dynasties

Project

The Chinese legal tradition: from the late empire to the current day

Asia China Knowledge of the Production of Normativity Modernity

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Curriculum Vitae

2023
Assistant Professor of History, Yale University

2016–2023
Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology

2019
Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

2016
Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt

2015–2016
Research Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology

2015–2016
ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow

2015
Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo

2014–2015
An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

2014
Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt

2013
Research Fellow, Taiwan Center for Chinese Studies

2008
Visiting Graduate Student, Eastern China Normal University

2006–2014
MA/Ph.D. Program, Department of History, UCLA

Selected Publications

M. Dykstra, Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center Press, 2022)