PhD Candidate Fulbright Fellow Teaching and Research Assistant Bill Kelson is a 2021-22 Fulbright-Hays fellow (Taiwan) and a PhD candidate with research interests in Chinese history, the global history of capitalism, and the history of imperialism and colonialism in East Asia. He is currently completing his PhD dissertation, “Empire Unraveled: The Great Crash that Doomed China’s Last Dynasty,” soon to be the first comprehensive, global history of the 1880s financial crisis in China and Hong Kong. Research Research Areas: Asia Capitalism Imperialism & Colonialism Transnational U.S. 19th & 20th Century World History