Rebecca Nedostup [neh-DAW-stuhp]'s interests include displacement and emplacement and the social and political roles of the living and the dead amid mass violence. I am writing Living and Dying in the Long War, on the making and unmaking of community among people displaced by conflict across China and Taiwan from the 1930s through the 1950s. My first book, Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity, looked at the modern categorization of religious practice and its social and political ramifications. I have also written on Chinese political and print cultures and wartime and postwar society, and on the role of the dead in modern China. A future project centers on property relations, spatial memory, and transitional justice in Taiwan. Since 2021 I have been Faculty Director for the Choices Program, which produces innovative curriculum and videos for secondary history and current issues education.

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