
Zejun Wang
Education
PhD, History, University of Virginia, in progress.
MA, History, University of Virginia, 2024.
MA, Social Sciences, the University of Chicago, 2020.
BA, World History, university excellent graduate, Peking University, 2019.
Research
Sino-US-Soviet triangular relations at the end of the Cold War, PhD dissertation, University of Virginia, in progress.
“Deng Revisionism and Sino-US Relations, 1974-1975,” MA essay, University of Virginia, 2024.
“The Monolith Cracking: American Response to the Sino-Soviet Split, 1961-1963,” MA thesis, the University of Chicago, 2020.
“American Public Opinion and the Normalization of Sino-US Relations,” BA thesis, Peking University, 2019.
Awards and Honors
Language Study Grant, Governing America in a Global Era Initiative, University of Virginia, 2024.
Summer Language Study Grant, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, 2024.
Research Grant, Governing America in a Global Era Initiative, University of Virginia, 2023.
Summer Research Grant, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, 2023.
MA Award, Summer Language Institute, the University of Chicago, 2020.
Maroon Scholar Research Award, Division of the Social Sciences, the University of Chicago, 2019-20.
Courses Taught
TA, HIEA 3321 China and the Cold War (under Prof. Xiaoyuan Liu), Fall 2024.
TA, HIEA 2031 Modern China (under Prof. Xiaoyuan Liu), Spring 2024.
TA, HIST 3281 Genocide (under Prof. Jeffrey J. Rossman), Fall 2023.
Grader, HIEA 3323 China and the United States (under Prof. Xiaoyuan Liu), Fall 2023.