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<div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14px"><strong>Wenjiao Cai </strong>is a historian of early modern Korea with research interests in environments, science and technology, law, and frontiers and borderlands. She is working on her first manuscript, Coping with the Cold: Nature and State on Chosŏn Korea’s Northern Frontier, which examines how human-climate relations shaped state expansion in Chosŏn’s northern provinces of P’yŏngan and Hamgyŏng. Wenjiao received her Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University in 2022 and currently serves as a Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.<br></span></div>
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