Our Team
Mark Swislocki - Project Lead
Mark Swislocki is a historian with research interests in China, environmental history, food history, and the writing of global history in the age of the Anthropocene. He is currently writing two books: Green Walls in China, a research monograph on the environmental history of China-Himalayan borderlands; and The Predicament of History: Educational Encounters in “Global Liberal Arts,” a series of linked essays on curricular development and teaching in New York University’s global network.
He is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Asian Environmental History (Oxford University Press Reference Editions, in progress). He directs the NYU Abu Dhabi Global Asia Initiative and is “Co-Head Chef” of the Anthropocene Research Kitchen of the Division of Arts and Humanities of NYU Abu Dhabi.
He is Co-PI of the Luce Foundation funded research project: “Port City Environments in Global Asia” (with David Ludden, NYU; and Tansen Sen, NYU Shanghai), 2018-2021 and 2021-2024.
He is the author of Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai (Stanford, 2009) and articles on the history of nutrition, critical animal studies, and the environment.
Jiun Tan - Research Associate
Jiun Tan is a Research Associate of NYU Abu Dhabi’s Global Asia Initiative. Based in the Netherlands, she holds an Erasmus Mundus MA in History in the Public Sphere, as well as a BA in History from NYU Abu Dhabi. She is a writer and researcher, with an interest in the intersections between public history, historical scholarship, and creative writing.
With the support from the Global Asia Initiative, she is currently researching Chinese Migration to the Netherlands. Her research interests also extends to environmental history and diaspora history.
She is working on a novel featuring three characters surviving in Rotterdam during World War II, based on archival research. Her work has previously been published in Palette Poetry, Berfrois, and Sine Theta Magazine, among others.
She is also one of the Co-Creative Directors of Exit 11 Performing Arts Company.