Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of California - Irvine 2012
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2022
  • Assistant Professor in the Program of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 - 2021
  • Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 - 2019
  • Scholar In Residence in the Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2014
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • AUG 12, 2021

    Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

    A Laboratory Is The Ideal Place to Study ... the Humanities

  • MAR 30, 2020

    Department of History

    Epidemics in History: Stories of Cataclysm and Astonishing Advances

  • MAR 23, 2015

    In the National Library of Medicine, Studying Chinese Medicine History
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  Awards & Honors

  • Faculty Research Grant. Duke Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI). 2016
  • Faculty Book Manuscript Completion Fellowship. Duke University Franklin Humanities Institute . 2015
  • Jack Dr. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award. American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM). 2013
  • Summer Dissertation Fellowship. University of California, Irvine. 2012
  • Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. U.S. Department of Education. 2010
  • Research Grant for Foreign Scholars. Taiwan National Central Library Center for Chinese Studies (台灣國立圖書館漢學研究中心). 2010
  • AAS CIAC Small Grants. Association for Asian Studies. 2009
  • Dissertation Research Grant. University of California Pacific Rim Research Program . 2009
  • Grant-in-Aid. Rockefeller Archive Center. 2009
  • Research Grant. UCI Center for Asian Studies. 2009
  • Summer Research Grant. UCI International Center for Writing and Translation. 2009
  • Travel Grant. Association for Asian Studies China & Inner Asia Council. 2009
  • Huayu Fellowship (for language study). Taiwan Ministry of Education. 2007
  • Mini-Grant. UCI Pacific Rim Research Program. 2007
  • Chancellor's Fellowship. University of California, Irvine (UCI). 2006
  • "Best Should Teach" Silver Award. University of Colorado Graduate Teacher Program. 2003
  • Most Outstanding Student Award. Middlebury College Chinese Language School. 2000
  • Ta-Tuan Ch'en Scholarship. Middlebury College Chinese Language School. 2000
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Asia (Continent) 
    • China (Country) 
    • Taiwan (Country) 

  • Research

    • Asia (Continent) 
    • China (Country) 
    • Taiwan (Country) 
    • United Republic of Tanzania (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth. Intimate Communities Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945. University of California Press, 2018.
       Open Access Copy

  • Academic Articles

    • Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth. “China’s War with Japan 1937–1945: The Struggle for Survival, by Rana Mitter. London: Allen Lane, 2013. xxii+458 pp. £25.00 (cloth), £14.99 (eBook).” The China Journal 75 (January 2016): 128–30. https://doi.org/10.1086/683519.
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    • Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth. “Regulating Prostitution in China: Gender and Local Statebuilding, 1900–1937. written by Elizabeth J. Remick, 2014.” Nan Nü 17, no. 2 (March 24, 2015): 352–55. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00172p15.
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    • Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth. “Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China’s Modernity by Sean Hsiang-Lin Lei.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 89, no. 4 (2015): 835–36. https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2015.0117.
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    • Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth. “Prosperity's Predicament: Identity, Reform, and Resistance in Rural Wartime China. By Isabel Brown Crook Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. xxiv, 301 pp. $85.00 (cloth).” The Journal of Asian Studies 73, no. 3 (August 2014): 786–87. https://doi.org/10.1017/s002191181400059x.
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  • Book Sections

    • Barnes, N. E., and J. R. Watt. “The influence of war on China's modern health systems.” In Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China, 227–43, 2014.

  • Theses and Dissertations

    • Barnes, N. E. “Protecting the National Body: Gender, Public Health and Medicine in Southwest China during the War of Resistance against Japan, 1937-1945.” Edited by N. E. Pomeranz, Kenneth L. and N. E. Wasserstrom, Jeffrey, n.d.
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • GLHLTH 89S: First Year Seminar: Special Topics in Global Health 2022
  • GLHLTH 548S: Global History of Medicine 2022
  • GSF 584S: Global History of Medicine 2022
  • HISTORY 548S: Global History of Medicine 2022
  • FUQINTRD 694G: Global Immersion 1 2021
  • FUQINTRD 695G: Global Immersion 2 2021
  • FUQINTRD 696G: Global Immersion 3 2021
  • GLHLTH 142: History of Chinese Medicine 2021
  • GLHLTH 203: History of Global Health 2021
  • GLHLTH 548S: Global History of Medicine 2021
  • GSF 584S: Global History of Medicine 2021
  • HISTORY 203: History of Global Health 2021
  • HISTORY 239: History of Chinese Medicine 2021
  • HISTORY 548S: Global History of Medicine 2021
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Service to the Profession

  • Participant. Pathfinders Program. National Cener for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD). 2019  2019
  • Participant. Faculty Success Program. National Cener for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD). 2018  2018
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  Service to Duke

  • Asia-Pacific Studies Institute (APSI). Executive Committee. 2016 - 2019  2016 - 2019
  • Bass Connections Faculty Advisory Council . 2015 - 2016  2015 - 2016

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