Jessey J. C. Choo, Assistant Professor of History, (B.A., University of Rochester, 1997; M.A., University of Toronto, 1998; Ph.D., Princeton University, 2009).   I am a historian of premodern China and Japan.  My period of specialization is the so-called Chinese Middle Ages that stretches form the 4th to 10th centuries CE.  My research focuses on social, cultural, and gender history, as well as the history of medicine, of this period in general and women's religious practices in particular.  I have made many conference presentations addressing topics ranging from the institution of queenship, posthumous divorce, to gender-specific soteriology in the Buddhistic and Daoist traditions.  Currently, I am working on reproductive magics, child custody battles, women's interpretation of marriage and destiny, and the social network of learned mathematicians and fortune-tellers for upcoming publications.  I teach courses on premodern world history, historiography, East Asian religion and religiosity, and gender and family in premodern China.