Susan Naquin

Susan Naquin is an American historian and author. She is a professor emerita at Princeton University.

Naquin's research centers on the social and cultural history of late imperial and early modern China (1400-1900), focusing on topics such as millenarian peasant uprisings, families, rituals, pilgrimages, temples, the history of Beijing, and Qing material culture. She has authored and co-authored research articles and five books including ''Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813'', ''Shantung Rebellion: The Wang Lun Uprising of 1774'', ''Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century'', ''Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900'' and ''Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000'' and is a co-editor of the book ''Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in China''. She is the recipient of Princeton University's 2009 Graduate Mentoring Award and the 2010 American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction.

Naquin is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Provided by Wikipedia