Yacong Qiu is a Ph.D. candidate who specializes in the history and archaeology of early China. Her research examines early imperial China and Rome through comparative and decolonial perspectives, focusing on borderlands as lived social worlds shaped by gendered actors, mobility, and material networks. Her dissertation argues that these borderlands both sustained and destabilized imperial power in antiquity.
INSTRUCTOR
HIST 184A History of China
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT
HIST 2A World History; HIST 2B World History; HIST 4A Ancient West Asia; HIST 4A Global Rome; HIST 4C Modern Europe; HIST W 80 Chinese Civilization; ARTHI W6R/WRIT W6R Rome the Game; ARTHI 6H Arts of the Ancient Americas
Panel Organizer & Panelist: Association for Asian Studies 2023 Annual Conference
Title of Presentation: The Imperial Tour: A Ruling Strategy in the Han and Roman Empires
Panelist: Archaeological Institute of America/Society for Classical Studies 2024 Joint Annual Meeting
Title of Presentation: Astrologers and Occultists in the Courts of Rome and Han
Speaker: Kin and Clan in Roman Antiquity: New Perspectives on the Roman Family (Loyola Marymount University) 02/2025
Title of Presentation: Dynamics of Imperial Family and the Gendered Politics of Empire: A Comparison of early Roman and Han Empires