Overview
Haocong Cheng is a Ph.D. student in the history department. Identifying himself as a historian of science and technology, environment, and society of twentieth-century China, Haocong's current research project revolves around livestock in twentieth-century Inner Mongolia. He aims to bring together human and nonhuman actors while exploring questions about modernizing projects and transnational knowledge production. Before joining Duke, he received his BA in history from UCLA and MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia.