Bill Kelson (he/him) is a historian of modern China and its place in the world economy. He was educated at Emerson College, Boston College, the University of Georgia, and IUP Tsinghua, and his research has been supported by the Luce Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright-Hays Program, the John E. Rovensky Fellowships in International Business & Economic History, and the Henry Kaufman Financial History Fellowship Program. While at the Society of Fellows, Bill will be turning his PhD dissertation, a wide-ranging history of the Chinese financial crisis of the 1880s, into a book manuscript. The study, researched at archives in Shanghai, Taipei, and London, explores the ways in which integration into global capitalism in the late-nineteenth century made Qing China’s financial system increasingly fragile, as well as the consequences of this financial fragility for Qing society writ large. Bill’s first peer-reviewed publication, “Manias, Panics, & Land: The Property Bubbles of the Great Chinese Crash of the 1880s,” was recently published in a special issue of Business History titled The Global Economy & the Origins of Modern Chinese Business, edited by John D. Wong, Ghassan Moazzin, and Kang Jin-A.