Graduate Associate
clemh[at]yorku.ca
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in History, York University
Research Keywords:
Global history; natural history; ethnobotany knowledge
Research Region(s):
China
Based in Toronto, Canada, I have broad interests in the global cross-pollination between epistemic traditions of science and religion. I am an avid language learner, always curious about the experiences and motivations of beings that moved, or were moved, across borders.
Supported by a Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral (CGRS-D) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, my dissertation project examines the intersection of nineteenth-century knowledge production, religious missions, and colonial networks, focusing on French Catholic missionaries’ natural history collecting in zoology and botany in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands.
Previously, I received a joint MA in Transcultural Studies from Heidelberg University, Germany, and Kyoto University, Japan.