Short CV

Education

• B.A. History, University of California, Berkeley, 2007
• M.A. History, Columbia University, 2010
• Ph.D History, University of California, Berkeley, 2017

Academic Positions

• University of Washington, Seattle
  • Assistant Professor (2017-present)
• Shanghai University, Center for the History of Global Development
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (2017)
• Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History
  • Visiting Researcher (2012-13)

Publications

Sowing Seeds and Knowledge: Agricultural Development in the US, Taiwan, and the World, 1949-1975

Lin, James. “Sowing Seeds and Knowledge: Agricultural Development in Taiwan and the World, 1925–1975.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society 9, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 127–49.

Martyrs of Development: Taiwanese Agrarian Development and the Republic of Vietnam, 1959–1975

Lin, James. “Martyrs of Development: Taiwanese Agrarian Development and the Republic of Vietnam, 1959–1975.” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 9, no. 1 (2020): 67–106.

Nostalgia for Japanese Colonialism: Historical Memory and Postcolonialism in Contemporary Taiwan

Lin, James. “Nostalgia for Japanese Colonialism: Historical Memory and Postcolonialism in Contemporary Taiwan.” History Compass 20, no. 11 (2022): e12751.

Teaching

Science, Environment, and Society in East Asia

The United States in the World

Global History of Development

Global History of Capitalism

History of Modern Taiwan

Making Modern Taiwan (Interdisciplinary Taiwan Studies)