Manager, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
About
Joseph W. Ho is a historian of modern East Asia, Sino-US encounters, and transnational visual culture and media. He is the co-editor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937–1938 (Lehigh University Press, 2017), co-author of Time Exposures: Catholic Photography and the Evolution of Modern China (Hong Kong University Press, under contract), and author of Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2022).
Ho has held fellowships at Stanford University, the University of San Francisco, and Boston College, as well as the EIHS Residency Research Fellowship at the University of Michigan. Before rejoining the EIHS and the Department of History, Joseph was associate professor of East Asian history at Albion College.
