TJ Hinrichs is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University. He specializes in the history of Chinese medicine, with a specific focus on the Song era (960-1279 CE). His forthcoming monograph, 'Shamans, Witchcraft, Quarantine: Medical Transformation Governance Southern Customs Mid-Imperial China,' examines how the Song dynasty government utilized medicine as an instrument for social reform and the implications this had for political medical practices and authority. His recent research includes the exploration of pharmaceuticals found in an eleventh-century tomb in Shaanxi and the commercial itinerant cultures during the Song-Yuan period in China. Hinrichs co-edited a volume, 'Chinese Medicine Healing: Illustrated History,' which gathers insights from fifty-eight leading scholars in the field. His teaching emphasizes the connections between personal experiences of illness, communal practices in medical training, and broader historical transformations, including the consolidation of the civil service examination system, commercialization, urbanization, and the spread of printing. He offers courses that explore China’s history from classical to modern periods, focusing on various themes such as imperial medicine and the cultural interactions between China and Japan.