Hung, Kuang-chi
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography
National Taiwan University
Taiwan
Biography
Kuang-chi Hung received his PhD in the history of science from Harvard University in 2013, and carried on his postdoctoral research at the Smithsonian Institution and Needham Research Institute, respectively. He is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, National Taiwan University. Hung’s research concerns the history of evolutionary theory, the history of geography, and the geography of scientific knowledge. Currently he is revising his dissertation, under the title “Finding Patterns in Nature: Asa Gray’s Plant Geography and Collecting Networks,” for publication, and initiating a new project tentatively titled “China as a field,” which deals with the Smithsonian Institution’s archaeological expeditions in China during the early twentieth century.
Research Interest
history of science, science; technology, and society (STS); environmental history
Publications
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2010 “The Place that ‘Offers the Greatest Interest:’ Northeast Asia and the Making of Asa Gray's Disjunction Thesis.†Harvard Papers in Botany 15(2): 231-250.
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2015 “When the Green Archipelago Encountered Formosa: The Making of Modern Forestry in Taiwan under Japan’s Colonial Rule (1895-1945).†In Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present, eds. Philip C. Brown and Bruce Batten. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press.
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Hung, Kuang-Chi Assistant Professor Office: Room 407, Department of Geography Email: kuangchi@ntu.edu.tw Phone: +886-2-33665826 Kuang-chi Hung received his PhD in the history of science from Harvard University in 2013, and carried on his postdoctoral research at the Smithsonian Institution and Needham Research Institute, respectively. He is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, National Taiwan University. Hung’s research concerns the history of evolutionary theory, the history of geography, and the geography of scientific knowledge. Currently he is revising his dissertation, under the title “Finding Patterns in Nature: Asa Gray’s Plant Geography and Collecting Networks,†for publication, and initiating a new project tentatively titled “China as a field,†which deals with the Smithsonian Institution’s archaeological expeditions in China during the early twentieth century. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Ph.D. Department of the History of Science, September 2006-November 2013 Dissertation, “Finding Patterns in Nature: Asa Gray’s Plant Geography and Collecting Networks (1830s-1860s).†Committee members: Janet Browne, Shigehisa Kuriyama, Henrietta Harrison, Donald H. Pfister Examination fields: Environmental History and the History of Biology (Janet E. Browne), History of the Body (Shigehisa Kuriyama), Modern Japanese History (Ian J. Miller), Modern Chinese History (Henrietta Harrison) Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Exchange Student, University Archives, April 2012-October 2012 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Ph.D. Student. School of Forestry and Natural Conservation, September 2000-February 2005 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan M.S. Department of Forestry, September 1998-June 2000 National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan B.S. Department of Forestry, September 1994-June 1998 history of science, science; technology, and society (STS); environmental history Nature, Society, and Nature Geography and Science and Technology Studies (STS) Introduction to Environmental History 2015 “Within the Lungs, the Stomach, and the Mind: Convergence and Divergences in Medical and Natural Histories of Ginkgo biloba.†In Historical Epistemology and the Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, ed. Howard Chiang. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
