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Zejun Wang

Graduate Student
Address/Office Hours
396 Nau Hall
Fields/Specialties
Cold War International History
US Foreign Relations
Modern East Asia
Modern Russia/Soviet Union

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.