Dorothy Ko (; born 1957) is a Professor of

History History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

and

Women's Studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppress ...

at the

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. She is a historian of early modern

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, known for her multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional research. As a historian of early modern China, she has endeavored to engage with the field of modern China studies; as a China scholar, she has always positioned herself within the study of women and gender and applied feminist approaches in her work; as a historian, she has ventured across disciplinary boundaries, into fields that include literature, visual and material culture, science and technology, as well as studies of fashion, the body and sexuality. Prior to joining the faculty of Barnard and Columbia, Ko has taught at the

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and at

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. Ko's research has been supported by the

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and the

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, Princeton, among others. She was named a fellow of the

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in 2022.

Education

Ko received secondary education at the

Queen Elizabeth School, Hong Kong Queen Elizabeth School (), or QES and QE ( or ) for short, is a school in Hong Kong. The school was the first English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) (Anglo-Chinese) co-education secondary school founded by the Government of Hong Kong. It is l ...

. She pursued university and doctoral education at

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, where she received the

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, and PhD degrees.

Works

* ''Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China'' (Stanford University Press, 1994) * ''Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet'' (University of California Press, 2001) * ''Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding'' (University of California Press, 2005). This book is awarded the Joan Kelley Memorial prize from the American Historical Association for the best book on women's history or feminist theory published in the year. *''Women and Confucian cultures in pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan'' (University of California Press, 2003), co-edited by Ko,

JaHyun Kim Haboush JaHyun Kim Haboush Korean: , ; 1940 in Seoul, Korea – 2011 in New York City) was a Korean-American scholar of Korean history and literature in the United States. Haboush was the King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia Universit ...

, and

Joan R. Piggott Joan R. Piggott (born 1947) is an American historian specializing in East Asian studies. Education Piggott completed a master of arts from Stanford University in 1972, followed by a doctorate from Stanford in 1987. Career Piggott began her aca ...

References

External links

curriculum vitae of Barnard facultyDorothy Ko papers
- Pembroke Center, Brown University
University of California Press announcement
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