MAURA DOMINIQUE DYKSTRA

Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: maurad@ucla.edu

Research Interests

Late Imperial (Ming and Qing, 14th- to 20th-century) social organization. Research topics include secret society organizational structure and economic strategy; community dispute resolution and commercial activity among Chinese in Batavia in the 18th century; and guild restructuring in Suzhou after the Taiping Rebellion, from 1850 - 1900.

Publications

“White Lotuses, Shining Red Lanterns, and the Eternal Mother: The Subversive Legacy of the Wusheng Lao Mu from the White Lotus Rebellions to the Boxer Movement,” published in The McNair Scholars Journal 2004.
“The Greek Phalanx and its Cultural Role in the City-States of Ancient Greece,” published in Clio 2003 (A journal of the Rho Xi chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society.)

Grants and Awards

Chancellors' Prize Fellowship and Summer Stipend; Ronald E. McNair Scholars research stipend

Advisors

Richard von Glahn

Conference Presentations

○ Western / Southwestern Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, University of Utah, September 20 – 22, 2007.
○ Ronald E. McNair Research Conference, Pennsylvania State University, 2004.
○ 2004 Western McNair Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, 2004.
○ Making Sense of (dis)Order: A Conference Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Anthropology Major at California State University, Sacramento.
○ Nineteenth Annual CSU Student Research Competition (CSU, Sacramento level) at California State University, Sacramento. [First Place, Undergraduate Humanities]
○ Nineteenth Annual CSU Student Research Competition (CSU-wide level) at California State University, Sacramento. [First Place, Undergraduate Humanities]