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Margaret Mih Tillman is an Associate Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University, with research interests focusing on cross-cultural contestations, identity formation, and knowledge production in China during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her notable monograph, 'Raising China’s Revolutionaries' (Columbia University Press, 2018), examines the transnational establishment of child welfare through the lens of childhood innocence and sentimentalization. Currently, she is engaged in a research project investigating how Chinese youth have responded to curricular changes and academic promotion amidst wartime experiences. She has received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and Taiwan Fulbright for her research endeavors. Her work also expands into examining transnational issues and diasporic labor as seen in contexts like eighteenth-century Cuba and postwar UNESCO. Dr. Tillman is actively mentoring graduate students in areas concerning twentieth-century China, diasporic China, and global childhood.
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