Zachary Hershey
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese Studies
Office:
James Blair 351
Email:
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Zachary Hershey is an environmental and legal historian of middle-period (c. 800-1300) East and Inner Asia with a focus on the intersection of agricultural and pastoral activities in North China. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021 in East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Hershey is currently working on two projects: an adaptation of his dissertation on the environmental and ethnic dynamics of Liao-era North China into a book project and a paper project on the administration of the Song dynasty prison system. In addition to general courses on East Asian history, his courses explore historical environmental issues of East and North Asia including deforestation, hydraulic projects and flooding, resource management, and land use as well as the philosophy and practice of law in pre-modern China and its application to administrative and social contexts.
