Susan Naquin | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Historian |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA., History MA., East Asian Studies Ph.D., History |
| Alma mater | Stanford University Yale University |
| Thesis | Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813 (1974) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania Princeton University |
Susan Naquin is an American historian. She is a professor emerita at Princeton University.[1]
Naquin's research centers on the social and cultural history of late imperial and early modern China (1400-1900), focusing on topics such as millenarian peasant uprisings, families, rituals, pilgrimages, temples, the history of Beijing, and Qing material culture.[1] She has authored and co-authored research articles and five books including Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813, Shantung Rebellion: The Wang Lun Uprising of 1774, Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century, Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900 and Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000 and is a co-editor of the book Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China. She is the recipient of Princeton University's 2009 Graduate Mentoring Award[2] and the 2010 American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction.[3]
Naquin is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society[4] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5]