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 I am an Assistant Professor and a member of the Founding Faculty at the University of California, Merced. UC Merced, the tenth campus of the University of California system, opened to students in 2005. My appointment is in the interdisciplinary School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. I contribute to undergraduate programs in Geography and Spatial Analysis, History, and World Heritage, and to the Graduate Group in World Cultures. My Ph.D. is from the UC Berkeley Department of History. Before joining the UC Merced faculty in 2004, I was Head of Collection Development at the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, a Berkeley-based international consortium promoting the use of GIS and digital library technologies for communicating about culture and history.My research focuses on historical geography. I am interested in the relationship between territory and state power in imperial China; and in developing methods to improve digital maps and timelines that support visualization and analysis in history and cultural heritage. I currently serve or have recently served as a University of California Systemwide 10+10 China Initiative Steering Committee Member, a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Grant Review Panelist (2007), a University of California Pacific Rim Research Program board member, an International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing board member, a Pleiades Online Workspace for Ancient Geography steering committee member, and a Social Science History Association Historical Geography co-chair (2002-2004). I live in Merced, California with my husband, daughter and our two cats. Publicity
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