Helen Schneider

• Twentieth Century Chinese history
• Women’s History
• History of Domesticity
• History of Education
• Women in World War II

• Ph.D., University of Washington
• M.A., University of Washington
• B.A., Swarthmore College

• Research Associate, University of Oxford, 2010-2012
• Vice-president of Historical Society of Twentieth Century China
• Association for Asian Studies
• American Historical Association
• Chinese Historians in the United States, 2009-11

• Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech. April 2014. 
• Post-doctoral Research Grant, Faculty of History, Oxford University, for research on China’s War with Japan project, September 2010-September 2012. 
• Research Grants, Department of History, Virginia Tech, for research during the summer and academic years, 2005-2010, 2014.

Books

Keeping the Nation’s House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011)

Journal Articles

“Raising the Standards of Family Life: Ginling Women’s College and Christian Social Service in Republican China,” in Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly (Canberra, Australia: Australia National University Press, 2014), 113-139.

“Women and Family Education Reform in Wartime China, 1937-1945,” The Chinese Historical  Review 20:2 (November 2013), 180-201. (Part of a special issue on the family in Chinese  history)

“Mobilising Women: The Women’s Advisory Council, Resistance, and Reconstruction during  China’s War with Japan,” European Journal of East Asian Studies 11:2 (December 2012): 213- 236.

with Rana Mitter, “Introduction: Relief and Reconstruction in Wartime China,” special issue European Journal of East Asian Studies 11:2 (December 2012)