• Professor of History (Ph.D. Stanford, 1990)
• Asian Studies Program Director (2009-2015)
• Director, Oregon Consortium for International and Area Studies (2013-2015)
• Editorial Board, Twentieth Century China (2008-present)
• Modern China Editor, Journal of Asian Studies (2004-2006)
• American Historical Association, Progam Committee (2015)
• Association for Asian Studies, China Council (2013-2016)

Major Fellowships, Grants, Honors

• Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies (2023)
• National Humanities Center (2020-2021)
• Faculty Excellence Award, UO (2020)
• Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Research Fellowship (2018)
• Membership (fellowship), Institute for Advanced Study, SHS, Princeton (2015-2016).
• Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard (2012-13).
• Faculty Research Award, Office of Research, UO (2014-2015)
• Faculty Excellence Award, UO (2007)
• Visiting Researcher, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (Fall 2005)
• Petrone Fellow (2004)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2003)
• Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Études, Paris (June 1999)
• Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (1998-99)

Monographs and Edited Volumes

• The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic (Harvard University Press, 2021).
• Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World (Routledge, April 2012). Co-editor.
• Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Modern China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). Co-editor.
• Transnationalism and the Chinese Press, China Review 4:1 (April 2004). Special Issue Editor
• Native Place, City and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937 (UC Press, 1995)
• In preparation: Expansive Exchanges: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Sovereignty in Early Twentieth Century China

• "Dubious Figures: Speculation, Calculation, and Credibility in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Stock Exchanges," in The Cultural History of Money and Credit: A Global Perspective (2015).
• "'Law is One Thing and Virtue is Another': Law and Legal Process," in Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice, and Transformation (2015).
• 翻譯的鍊金術： 民國早期上海的「經濟學」, ⟪ 近代中國新知識的建構⟫ (2013).
• "Colonialism and China," in Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China (2012)
• "Things Unheard of East or West: Colonial Contamination and Cultural Purity in Early Chinese Stock Exchanges" (2012).
• "Words of Blood and Tears: Petty Urbanites Write Emotion," Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China (2009).
• "What is in a Network? Local, Personal and Public Loyalties and Conceptions of the State, in At the Crossroads of Empires (Stanford , 2007).
• "Appealing to the Public: Newspaper Presentation and Adjudication of Emotion," Twentieth-Century China (2006).
• "The New Woman Commits Suicide: The Press, Cultural Memory and the New Republic," Journal of Asian Studies (2005).
• "Unvirtuous Exchanges: Women and the Corruptions of the Stock Market," in Women in China: The Republican Period (LIT Verlag, 2005).
• "The Vocational Woman and the Elusiveness of 'Personhood' in Early Republican China," in Gender in Motion (2005).
• "Axes of Gender: Divisions of Labor and Spatial Separation," in Gender in Motion (2005).
• "Semi-Colonialism, Transnational Ties, and Press Culture in Early Republican Shanghai," China Review ((2004).
• "Democratic Calisthenics: Urban Associations in the New Republic," in Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Contemporary China (HUP, 2002).
• "Improvisations on a Semi-Colonial Theme, or, How to Read a Celebration of Transnational Urban Community," JAS (2000).
• "Being Public: The Politics of Representation in 1918 Shanghai," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (2000).