Nancy Park received her BA in Asian Studies from Georgetown
University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History and East Asian
Languages from Harvard University. Outside of the U.S., she has
studied, taught, and conducted research at the National Taiwan
Chengchi University and the Academia Sinica in Taibei, Chinese
People's University and the First Historical Archives in
Beijing, and the Collège de France in Paris. Her primary field of
interest is late imperial Chinese
institutional and legal history; her most recent articles focus on
the nature, causes, and effects of official corruption and the use
of judicial torture in 18th-century China. Before coming to USF in
2010, she taught at Vassar College; Pomona College; the Colorado
School of Mines; and California State University, East Bay.
