Edward Tang

I finished my undergraduate as a history major at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I then completed my MPhil in Greek and Roman History at Oxford University, examining mobility patterns in Roman Egypt through papyri letters of the Oxyrhynchus collection.

At Stanford, I will explore the relationship between environmental impact and regular human mobility patterns, especially through aspects of seasonality and labour. Given my prior exposure to Chinese pre-modern history at CUHK, I have also engaged in comparative studies of ancient empires. I look forward to understanding further how scholarly analysis of the ancient Mediterranean world could be understood from perspectives of society outside this geographical region, and vice versa.