Associate Research Fellow
Ph.D. with Distinction, University of Chicago, Hisotry
History of Science in Early Modern Europe, History of the Humanities, Comparative History of Philology, Global Studies of Higher Education
Kevin Chang works on a variety of subjects: science and medicine in early modern Europe, the history of media and publication, comparative studies of the humanities (philology and linguistics in particular) and global history of higher education. He received his PhD in history from the University of Chicago and has since been working at the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s national academy. He co-edited World Philology (Harvard University Press, 2015) with Sheldon Pollock and Benjamin Elman, Impagination: Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication (de Gruyter, 2021) with Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most, and A Global History of Education: Disciplines, Institutions, and Nations, 1840-1950 (Oxford University Press, 2021) with Alan Rocke. He has finished a manuscript with the title The Dissertation: A Global History. This book examines the dissertation as a genre of academic writing and publication since its origin as the disputation in the earliest medieval universities, investigates its evolution in the early modern period, analyzes it formation in the early nineteenth century, and traces its globalization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He also works on a manuscript entitled “From Writing to Spoken Languages: the Breakaway of Language Sciences from Philology, 1880-1960 (contracted with Princeton University Press). He has received the Fulbright Fellowship, the Membership of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholarship, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Experienced Scholar Fellowship. He is a member of the International Commission for the History of Universities and served as the Ambassador Scientist for Germany’s Humboldt Foundation.
Education:
Ph.D. with Distinction, University of Chicago, Hisotry (2002)
Current and Previous Positions:
2008.9- , Associate Professor/Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2015.10-2019.2, Chairperson of History Department, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2002.2-2008.9, Assistant Professor/Research Fellow, Institute of Hisotry and Philology, Academia Sinica
2014.8-2017.7, 科技部人文行遠專書寫作計畫:「現代語言學獨立於Philology的歷史,1910-1945:學科的認同、成型、與實作」
2013-2014, 德國洪堡基金會 (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) 資深學者研究獎助
2012.1-2016.12, Career Development Award, Academia Sinica
2011.8-2014.7, 國科會專題計畫:「科學、哲學、與生命的跨國史:十九世紀、二十世紀初Vitalism洲際討論與傳佈」,獲遴選為優秀年輕學者研究計畫獎助
2011.8.1-2012.7.15, Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholarship
2007, Young Investigator's Award, Academia Sinica
2006-2007, Fulbright Scholarship
2006, Wu Ta-yu Prize, National Science Ciuncil, Taiwan
2006, Membership, Institute of Advanced Study (School of Historical Studies), Princeton, Fall term
2003, Li Foundation of New York Heritage Prize for the Junior Faculty at Academia Sinica