Faculty Profiles

Chenxi Luo is a historian of late imperial China, specializing in slavery and law, migration and diaspora, gender and sexuality, and ethnicity and borderland. She is working on her first book project, which investigates the institution of slavery in a moving empire. In particular, this research examines how geographical movement transformed social relationships between masters and slaves during the Qing period, China’s last dynasty. Her intellectual inquiry extends to the history of Asian Americans. She creates a public-facing StoryMap project on Asian immigrants in St. Louis. Chenxi received her Ph.D. degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 2024. At Reed, she teaches courses on the histories of sexuality and of slavery in East Asia and will also teach Humanities 110.