Anne Gerritsen gained her PhD from Harvard University and is a member of the history department at the University of Warwick, UK. She also holds the Chair of Asian Art at Leiden University. Her first book, Ji’an Literati and the Local, was published by Brill in 2007, and her second book, The City of Blue and White, focuses on the local and global history of ceramics manufactures in Jingdezhen and was published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press. She has also coedited several volumes, on global material culture and the history of gift-giving with Giorgio Riello and Zoltán Biedermann, and on micro-spatial histories of labor with Christian de Vito. She has been working on the global circulation of medical commodities, specifically rhubarb, and edited a collection of articles on the history of medicine in the Indian Ocean World with Burton Cleetus (JNU) and on the the global circulation of Bencao gangmu with Gao Xi (Fudan). Her current project at the MPIWG is a collaboration with Dagmar Schäfer, Ying Zhang, and Sarah Schneewind, and is called UTMOST (Uncovering the Traces of Ming Occupations through Sociological Theory).
