Peter J. Carroll (PhD, Yale University, 1998) is associate professor of history. His research interests include urban history, Chinese modernism, popular and material culture, gender/sexuality, and nationalism. He is the author of Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937, and several scholarly articles. A two-time Fulbright recipient, he has held fellowships with the International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University; the Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Center; the Centers for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library, Taibei, Taiwan; and at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a visiting scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica.