Norman Apter

Biography

We regret to announce that Professor Norman Apter passed away on February 8, 2014 from melanoma. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in Summer 2013 under the mentorship of Philip Huang and Kathryn Bernhardt. His dissertation was titled “Saving the Young: A History of the Child Relief Movement in Modern China.” He had been teaching at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts since 2011, where he specialized in twentieth-century Chinese social and cultural history, with an emphasis on the histories of children, childhood, and the issue of state and society.