People
Program Director
Micah Muscolino
Director of Chinese Studies Program
Ph.D. – Professor, History
Micah Muscolino is a historian of modern China with a focus on environmental history. He earned his B.A. from UC Berkeley and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His research examines how warfare, state-building, and natural resource use have shaped China’s environment from the late imperial period to the present.
His first book, Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (2009), explored marine resource struggles in the Zhoushan Islands. His second, The Ecology of War in China (2015), analyzed environmental devastation in Henan Province during World War II. His current project investigates water and soil conservation in Northwest China’s Loess Plateau.
Muscolino has published extensively on topics including global environmental history, energy, and territorial disputes. He also edits the “Historical Perspectives on China’s Environment” series for China Dialogue. His work has been supported by the NEH, Mellon Foundation, British Academy, and Fulbright Program.
Before joining UC San Diego in 2018, he taught at St. Mary’s College, Georgetown University, and the University of Oxford. He advises Ph.D. students and teaches courses on modern China and environmental history.
Email: mmuscolino@ucsd.edu
Staff
Cristina Guerrero
Program Coordinator & Academic Advisor
Chinese Studies ProgramArts and Humanities Building, 6th FloorEmail: chinesestudies@ucsd.edu
Language Faculty
Anderson, Qin-Hong
Faculty, Chinese Language
Email: qinhong@ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-534-4596
Office: Arts and Humanities Building, 6th floor room 628
Liu, Mingming
Faculty, Chinese Language
Email: mil068@ucsd.edu
Office: Arts and Humanities Building, 6th floor room 627
Chen, Pei-Chia
Faculty, Chinese Language
Academic Coordinator, Chinese language program
Email: peichiachen@ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-534-4596
Office: Arts and Humanities Building, 6th floor room 631
Wang, Xiao
Faculty, Chinese Language
Email: xiw004@ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-822-1533
Office: Arts and Humanities Building, 6th floor room 629
Xu, Li
Faculty, Chinese Language
Email: lixu29@ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-822-1504
Office: Arts and Humanities Building, 6th floor room 630
Cha, Samuel (retired)
Faculty, Chinese Language
Affiliated Faculty
Chen, Eddy Keming
Philosophy
Email: k2chen@ucsd.edu
Cheung, Tai Ming
School of Global Policy and Strategy
Email: tcheung@ucsd.edu
Fiss, Géraldine
Literature
Email: gfiss@ucsd.edu
Gerth, Karl
History
Email: kgerth@ucsd.edu
Guedes, Jade d’Alpoim
Scripps Institution of Oceanography & Department of Anthropology
Email: jguedes@ucsd.edu
Guy, Nancy
Music
Email: nguy@ucsd.edu
Jia, Ruixue
School of Global Policy and Strategy
Email: rxjia@ucsd.edu
Hoston, Germaine
Political Science
Email: ghoston@ucsd.edu
Li, Huai (aka Pickowicz, Lee)
Visual Arts
Email: h3li@ucsd.edu
Faculty Profile: Visual Arts Department
Liang, Lei
Music
Email: leiliang@ucsd.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/leiliangcomposer2/
Liao, Ping-hui
Literature
Chuan Lyu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies
Email: piliao@ucsd.edu
Liu, Guoer
Political Science
Email: guoerliu@ucsd.edu
Lu, Weijing
History
Email: w1lu@ucsd.edu
Muscolino, Micah
History
Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History
Email: mmuscolino@ucsd.edu
Naughton, Barry J.
School of Global Policy & Strategy
Email: bnaughton@ucsd.edu
Ng, Kwai
Sociology
Email: kwng@ucsd.edu
Roberts, Molly
Political Science
Email: meroberts@ucsd.edu
Schneewind, Sarah
History
Email: sschneewind@ucsd.edu
Shen, Kuiyi
Visual Arts
Email: kshen@ucsd.edu
Shih, Victor
Political Science; Director, 21st Century China Center
Email: vcshih@ucsd.edu
Stewart, Alex
Anthropology
Email: a1stewar@ucsd.edu
Zhu, Ping
Literature
Email: p3zhu@UCSD.EDU
Emeriti Affiliated Faculty
Cahill, Suzanne
History
Email: suzannecahill@gmail.com
Chen, Joseph C. Y.
Physics
Email: jcychen@ucsd.edu
Esherick, Joseph
History
Email: jesherick@ucsd.edu
Jordan, David
Anthropology
Email: dkjordan@ucsd.edu
Website: http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/
Madsen, Richard
Sociology
Email: rmadsen@ucsd.edu
Pickowicz, Paul
History
Email: bikewei@ucsd.edu
Shirk, Susan
School of Global Policy & Strategy
Email: sshirk@ucsd.edu
Yip, Wai-Lim
Literature
Email: wyip@ucsd.edu
Librarian
Xi Chen
Sally T. WongAvery Librarian of Chinese Studies & East Asia Collection Strategist
Geisel Library
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive MC 0699
La Jolla, California 92093-0175R
Email: xic031@ucsd.edu