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Tristan G. Brown is an Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focusing on late imperial China. His research examines the intersections of law, science, religion, and environment that shaped Chinese society from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. His book, "Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China" (Princeton University Press, 2023), investigates the role of cosmology and law during periods of economic and environmental transformation. He has received the John K. Fairbank Award from the American Historical Association and the Biennial Book Prize from the International Society for Chinese Law and History. Brown's current research is expanding into multilingual approaches to social history, particularly regarding Islam in Ming China and environmental-military history related to the use of ice on China’s northern frontier. He is also a co-principal investigator on an interdisciplinary project supported by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative that assesses the complexity of legal language and cultures in Chinese contexts.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Cambridge, MA
Teaching courses on Dynastic China, Modern China, and Nature and Environment in China, connecting historical narratives to contemporary climate and social issues.