Keynote Speakers

Dr. Fu Chia-Chen is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. She earned her Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 2009 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2009 to 2010. Dr. Fu served as an Assistant Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University between 2010 and 2015, and subsequently as Assistant and then Associate Professor of Chinese at Emory University from 2015 to 2022. Her research encompasses the history of science, technology, and medicine; twentieth-century China; the history of the body; and science, technology, and society (STS). She authored The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China (University of Washington Press, 2018) and co-edited Modern Chinese Foodways (MIT Press, 2025). Additionally, Dr. Fu is an associate editor for East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine and serves on the editorial board of Re:Past--Studies in the History of Nutrition at Johns Hopkins University Press.