Laura Hostetler

Laura Hostetler is a professor in the Department of History in the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her principal research interests are the history of cartography, empire, and encounters between Europe and Asia.[1] She belongs to the school of thought known as the New Qing History. Her book, Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China, demonstrates how the Qing dynasty pursued its imperial ambitions by using cartography and ethnography.[2]

In 1995 she received her Ph.D. in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Pennsylvania, where she studied with Susan Naquin.^[citation needed]

From 2010 to 2014, Hostetler was the Chair of the UIC Department of History.[3]

Hostetler is also a Council Member for the American Historical Association.[4]

Publications

• Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China, University of Chicago Press, 2001.
• The Art of Ethnography: A Miao Album of Guizhou Province, University of Washington Press, 2005.

References

1. Laura Hostetler - Professor of History
2. Qing Colonial Enterprise
3. "Past Chairs | History | University of Illinois Chicago". Retrieved 2023-10-26.
4. "Laura Hostetler | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2023-10-26.