We are honored to have Dr. Catherine Chang, from the Winthrop University Department of History, speak on “Formosa: Home of Bubble Tea and Microchips.“
Dr. Chang teaches various history courses, including East Asian History, World History, and many more. She has also conducted extensive research across a broad scope, adopting an interdisciplinary and global perspective. Dr. Chang will give us a brief overview of the history of Taiwan.
Event: FASCA Atlanta Education Seminar – Online Zoom Meeting
Speaker: Catherine Chang, Ph.D.
Title: Formosa: Home of Bubble Tea and Microchips
(Taiwan Snapshot 1: Taiwanese History Overview)
Date: Saturday, November 19, 2022
Time: 8-9 pm EST
MEET OUR SPEAKER: [Catherine Chang, Ph.D.]
Dr. Catherine Chang teaches courses of World History, East Asian Histories, Women’s History, Digital History, Maritime History, and Historiography and Methodology at Winthrop University. She received her Ph.D. degree in East Languages and Cultures from the University of Southern California and her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in political science from National Taiwan University.
Before entering the discipline of history, she was a journalist and a think tank’s policy analyst in Taiwan. Taking interdisciplinary and global perspectives, her current research includes East Asian political, social, and cultural histories in the early modern and modern periods, with interests in international relations, modernization and political theories, and the diaspora.