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Johanna S. Ransmeier is a social legal historian specializing in modern China. Her current research investigates the expansion of legal literacy and the development of the Chinese legal imagination amidst revolutionary changes. She explores what happens to citizens’ legitimate expectations of the law when they find their abilities to navigate legal institutions at odds with the promises of new legislation and legal innovations. Ransmeier studies the surprising intersections of crime and law with family life in China. Her book, 'Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China' (Harvard University Press, 2017), examines the transactional foundations of traditional family structures and the role of human trafficking during the late Qing and Republican China. She is a fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations Public Intellectuals Program and has served as a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Before joining the University of Chicago, she was a member of the History and Classical Studies department at McGill University. Currently, she co-chairs the faculty board at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights.
Department of Philosophy