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Matthew Sommer is a social and legal historian of China in the Qing dynasty, specializing in gender, sexuality, and family. He has published books on polygamy, transgender, and criminal procedure in China, and is working on two more projects.
MATTHEW H. SOMMER 蘇成捷 Curriculum Vitae ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: 2021-present: Bowman Family Professor of History, Stanford University 2015-present: Professor, Department of History, Stanford University 2017-20: Department Chair 2015-17: Department Vice-Chair 2002-15: Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of History, Stanford University
Articles 1–20. Associate Professor of History, Stanford University - Cited by 1,173 - Chinese history - gender - sexuality - women's history - legal history.
Matthew Sommer (BA, Swarthmore College, 1983; MA, University of Washington, 1987; Ph.D., UCLA, 1994) taught Chinese history at the University of Pennsylvania for seven years before joining Stanford's History Department in 2002.
Bowman Family Professor and Professor of History and, by courtesy, of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Curriculum Vitae available Online.
Matthew Sommer, Stanford University, History Department, Faculty Member. Studies Popular religion, Classical Chinese Intellectual History, and Song Dynasty.
Matthew H. Sommer (BA, Swarthmore College; MA, University of Washington; PHD, UCLA) teaches Chinese history at Stanford University. His research focuses on gender, sexuality, and law in China during its last imperial dynasty, the Qing (1644-1912).
