Karen M.Teoh

Consortium for Faculty Diversity Post Doctoral Fellow

Fall 2008

  • The Making of Modern China (ASIAN 275)
Phone (207) 721-5183
Title Consortium for Faculty Diversity Post-Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer
Department HISTORY
Work Location 104 Riley House
E-Mail kteoh@bowdoin.edu

Education

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Ph.D., History (2008)

Yale University, New Haven, CT
B.A., Honors, magna cum laude, History (1999)

Research Interests

Modern Chinese history (late imperial and modern), Overseas Chinese history, Southeast Asian history, migration, ethnicity, gender, colonialism, social anthropology

Conference Presentations and Publications

“Modern Girl, New Woman: Female Education and Adolescence Among the Overseas Chinese of British Malaya and Singapore, 1900s-1950s.” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY, January 2009 (upcoming).

“Better Daughters and More Obedient Wives: Class, Ethnicity and Female Education Among the Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s-1940s.” History of Education Society Annual Meeting, St. Petersburg, FL, November 2008 (upcoming).

“Exotic Flowers, Modern Women: Overseas Chinese Girls’ Schools in British Malaya and Singapore, 1900s-1940s.” New England Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, University of Massachusetts-Boston, October 2008 (upcoming).

“Gender, Education and the Colonial State: British Intervention in Malayan Chinese Girls’ Schools, 1920s-1950s.” 8th Conference on International History: Gender and International Studies, Harvard University, March 2008.

“Modernization and Cultural Conservatism: The Emergence of Chinese Girls’ Schools in British Malaya and Singapore.” New York Conference for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, SUNY-Binghamton, October 2007.

"Home is That Which I Adore: Feminism, Nationalism and Self-Narratives of Repatriated Overseas Chinese Women, 1940s-50s." New England Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, University of New Hampshire, October 2007.

“A Girl Without Talent is Therefore Virtuous: Educating Chinese Women in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s-1960s.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, March 2007

“A Girl Without Talent is Therefore Virtuous: Educating Chinese Women in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s-1960s.” 9th Annual Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, Cornell University, March 2007.

“A Girl Without Talent is Therefore Virtuous: Educating Chinese Women in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s-1960s.” Gender Studies Program Seminar, University of Malaya, Malaysia, March 2006.

“Learning Lessons: Researching the Histories of Education and Ethnic Chinese Women in Malaysia and Singapore, Early to Mid 20th Century.” New York Conference for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Bard College , October 2004.