#  Zekun Zhang 

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis.

PhD, Department of History, Yale University.

 

 

 



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 location\_on 1727 Cambridge Street, Room E104, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 email [zekun\_zhang@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:zekun_zhang@fas.harvard.edu) 

 



 

**Research interests:** Premodern China; Korea; slavery; the Global Middle Ages; and the Silk Road.

**Pronouns:** she/her/hers



 

 

 





 

 

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