Haniya Haihan Jiang

PhD Program (She/Her)
haihan.jiang@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • East Asia
  • Economy, Technology and Society
  • Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
  • Food
  • Russia

Areas of Interest

Russia-China border; Space, Border, Cartography; Historical Anthropology

Major and Minor Fields

Major

  • Late Imperial and Modern China

Minor 1

History of Religion and Society

Minor 2

History of Economy, Technology and Society

Biography

Haihan Jiang's research explores the intersection of spatial history, frontier studies, and environmental history in Manchuria. Her dissertation examines how local actors—farmers, hunters, and merchants—in Qing Manchuria (1820-1930) created alternative networks of resource access that challenged official territorial and administrative orders.

Awards

Education

MA, Sociocultural Anthropology, Columbia University
BA, International Media and Communications Studies, University of Nottingham

Cohort

  • 2021-2022