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Catherine Ladds (Special Assistant Professor) Clark B-359 Catherine.Ladds@colostate.edu |
Education:
Ph.D. in History, University of Bristol, UK
M.A. in History, University of York, UK
B.A. in History, University of York, UK
Specializing in: East Asian history, Euro-American colonialism
Current Research Interests:
Book manuscript in progress: Empire Careers: The Foreign Staff of the Chinese Customs Service, 1854-1949
Anglo-Chinese communities; the socio-political history of the foreign presence in China; extraterritoriality in East Asia
Courses Taught:
HIST 121 Asian Civilizations II
HIST 452 China in the Modern World, 1600-present
INST 300 Approaches in International Studies
INST 492 Capstone Seminar: Empires and Globalization in the Modern World
Major Publications:
- “The Chinese Maritime Customs Service,” in David Pong (ed.) Encyclopedia of Modern China (Gale Cengage, 2009).
- “‘Youthful, likely men, who can read, write and count’: Joining the foreign staff of the Chinese Customs Service, 1854-1927,” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol. 36, No. 2 (2008), pp. 227-242.
- “‘The Life Career of us all’: Britons and Germans in the Chinese Customs Service, 1854-1917,” Berliner China-Hefte: Chinese History and Society, Vol. 33 (2008), pp. 34-53.
- “A Customs officer in the treaty port world: R.F.C. Hedgeland’s photographs,” International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter, no. 44 (Feb 2008).
- “The World of the Chinese Maritime Customs,” in Robert Bickers, Catherine Ladds, Jamie Carstairs and Yee Wah Foo, Picturing China 1870-1950: Photographs from British Collections (Bristol, Chinese Maritime Customs Project Occasional Papers, No. 1, 2007).
Grands and Fellowships:
- British Academy Small Research Grant, 2008-2009
- British Inter-University China Centre Research Fellowship, Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Bristol, UK, 2007-2008
- Visiting Fellowship, European Studies Centre, Nanjing University, May-July 2007
- Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, doctoral award