Rate My Professor Yongming Zhou

Professor Zhou's research specializes in historical and cultural anthropology, with pioneering work in "Roadology," exploring the history, environmental impacts, and socio-cultural dimensions of roads, particularly transnational projects on the Tibetan Plateau's periphery and in the Great Mekong Subregion. He has also investigated the historicizing of online politics from telegraphy to the internet in China. Key publications include his authored books: Anti-Drug Crusades in Twentieth-Century China: Nationalism, History, and State-Building (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999) and Historicizing Online Politics: Telegraphy, the Internet, and Political Participation in China (Stanford University Press, 2006). He edited “Roadology”: Roads, Space, Culture and Chinese Anthropology and is editor-in-chief of Heritage Studies. His accolades encompass a Mellon Fellowship at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, visiting fellow at the East Asian Institute (1999) and senior fellow at the Asia Institute (2008) at the National University of Singapore, and presidency of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs in 2012. Currently, as Executive Director of BNBU's Institute for Advanced Study, he advances interdisciplinary initiatives, including the integration of AI with liberal arts education and research.