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HELEN MAY SCHNEIDER
舒海澜
Curriculum Vitae
e-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Degrees Earned
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Ph.D., History, June 2004
M.A., History, June 1996
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
B.A. with Distinction in Asian Studies and History, 1992
Mandarin and Chinese Studies Training
The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University
Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, China, 1993-1994
Mandarin Training Center
National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1992-1993
Beijing Languages Institute
Beijing, China, Spring 1990
CET Language Training Center
Harbin, China, Fall 1989
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor
Department of History, Virginia Tech, 2011-present
Research Associate, China’s War with Japan Programme sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust.
Under the direction of Dr. Rana Mitter, The University of Oxford, History Faculty.
September 2010-September 2012
Assistant Professor
Department of History, Virginia Tech, 2004-2011
Instructor
University of Washington, Department of History, Spring 2003, Summers 2001, 2002
Teacher’s Assistant, University of Washington, Department of History
TA for Professor James Gregory, Peoples of the United States, Winter 1999
TA for Professor John Findlay, Survey History of the United States, Fall 1998
Research Assistant, University of Washington, Institute for Transnational Studies,
Modern Girl Around the World research group, July 2001-April 2002
Foreign Expert, Capital Normal University, College of Foreign Languages, Beijing, China
English language teacher, Fall 1999; AY 1996-1997
Research Assistant, University of Washington, Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization, a webbased resource. Summers 1995, 1996.
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RESEARCH
Select Publications
“Raising the Standards of Family Life: Ginling Women’s College and Christian Social Service in
Republican China,” in Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific. Edited
by Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly (Canberra, Australia: Australia National University Press,
2014); 113-139.
“Women and Family Education Reform in Wartime China, 1937-1945,” The Chinese Historical
Review 20:2 (November 2013), 180-201.
“Mobilising Women: The Women’s Advisory Council, Resistance, and Reconstruction during
China’s War with Japan,” special issue European Journal of East Asian Studies 11:2 (December
2012)
with Rana Mitter, “Introduction: Relief and Reconstruction in Wartime China,” special issue
European Journal of East Asian Studies 11:2 (December 2012)
Keeping the Nation’s House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China (Vancouver:
University of British Columbia Press, 2011)
Select Presentations of Research
“Women’s Contributions to Social Welfare for Chinese Resistance and Reconstruction,” War in
History and Memory: An International Conference on the Seventieth Anniversary of China’s
Victory for the War against Japan, Taipei, Taiwan; July 7-9, 2015.
“The Women’s Advisory Council and Transnational Relief Networks for China’s Resistance and
Reconstruction, 1937-1949;” pre-circulated paper for the Modern Chinese History Research
Seminar, Columbia University, NY, May 14, 2015.
“Educated Women’s Roles in Chinese social mobilization during China’s War with Japan: A
Comparative Perspective,” for “Fighting Women During and After WWII in Asia and Europe”
held at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Wassenaar, The Netherlands, June
11-13, 2014.
“Women’s Liberation and Gendered Patriotism during China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945,”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, March 29, 2014.
“Cleanliness, Godliness, and Social Habits in the New Life Movement, 1934-1948,” American
Historical Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, January 4, 2014.
“Balancing Interests and Aid: International Relief in Post-WWII China,” Invited paper for nine-day
workshop “Revisiting Modern China at the Hoover Archives,” held at the Hoover Institution
Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, August 5-15, 2013.
“Educated Women’s Resistance and Construction Activities during China’s War with Japan: The
Case of the Women’s Advisory Council.” Invited paper for “Shaping a Modern Nation:
International Conference on the Centennial History of the Republic of China,” at Academia
Historica, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2012.
“Chinese Women’s Professional Circles: Careers in Social Welfare from the 1930s-1940s,”
European Association of China Studies annual conference, University of Paris—Diderot,
September 2012.
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“Domestic Improvement: Chinese Missionary Colleges, Educated Women, and Social Outreach
from the 1920s to the 1940s.” Invited paper for conference “Paradoxes of Domesticity:
Christian Missionaries and Women in the Asia and the Pacific,” Australia National University,
Canberra, Australia, August 2012.
“Women’s Circles and Womanly Spheres: Mobilization and Career Choices for Elite Chinese
Women from the 1920s-1940s,” Historians of Twentieth Century China bi-annual conference,
Hangzhou, China, June 2012.
“Women, Gender and Class: Mobilization and Resistance during the Sino-Japanese War, 19371945.” Talk for International Gender Studies (IGS) group seminar series ‘Gender, War, and
Security: Feminist Research on Conflict,’ Lady Margaret Hall College, Oxford, May 2012.
“Women and the Development of International Relief Networks in Wartime China,” Association
for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 2012.
“Domestic Responsibilities: The Discipline of Home Economics in Twentieth Century China.”
Invited presenter as part of the Histories of Home Seminar, University of London, Dec. 2011.
Podcast: http://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/studies-home/domestic-responsibilitiesdiscipline-home-economics-twentieth-century-china
“Mobilizing Women: Educated Chinese Women’s Wartime Social Work, 1937-1945” paper
presented at small workshop “On Chiang Kai-shek and the Sino-Japanese War,” sponsored by
Hangzhou University and the University of Oxford, Hangzhou, China, September 2011.
“The Mobilization of Educated Chinese Women: Transnational Connections and Comparisons,”
paper presented at the workshop “Relief and Reconstruction in Wartime and Post-war China,
1937-1949.” Organized by Helen Schneider and Tehyun Ma, University of Oxford, June 2011.
Commentator on Panel, “The Biology and Economics of Social Reproduction: Health, Wealth and
Happiness in the Modern Chinese Family,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting,
Honolulu, April 2011.
“Women and the Development of International Relief Networks in Wartime China,” paper
presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 2011.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Outreach
CET Chinese Studies Program in Beijing, Advisory Board Member. CET, Washington, DC, Fall 2004Professional Memberships
Association for Asian Studies, 1999-present
American Historical Association, 2003-present
Historical Society of Twentieth Century China (HSTCC), 2005-present
Vice-president, 2014-2016

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