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Assistant Professor
Elizabeth LaCouture
BA Barnard College, Columbia University; MIA, MA, MPhil, PhD Columbia University
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Elizabeth LaCouture is interested in a broad range of topics related to the history of women, gender and sexuality in China and East Asia. Her research combines the local histories of Chinese places with the transregional migrations of Chinese and global commodities to illuminate the individual experiences of everyday life beyond the totalizing narratives of the nation-state. Methodologically she expands traditional understandings of "the archive" to include non-written texts, such as visual and material culture and architecture.
Before joining HKU, Dr. LaCouture taught history and East Asian studies at Colby College in the Unites States and was a research fellow in the Academy of Korean Studies funded Korean Family in Comparative Perspective research group at the University of Illinois. Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Fulbright-Hays US Department of Education.
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Current Researches
Dr. LaCouture is completing her first book titled At Home in the World: Family, House and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960 (under contract with Columbia University Press) which explores how the modern house and home became central to individual gender and class identities in twentieth-century Tianjin, China. Building on this research, she is also working on two comparative projects: First, she is writing an article that examines family social science and family planning policies in Cold War Taiwan and South Korea, and second, she is collaborating with other historians of gender and sexuality on a roundtable forum on comparative histories of domesticity.
Dr. LaCouture's second research project will examine beauty and cosmetics in the Sinophone world.
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