Personal Statement:
My research and teaching interests include modern Chinese social and economic history and such topics as the political economy of the Third World; theories of social change; nondevelopmentalist alternative histories; women and work; comparative women's history; peasant studies; comparative revolutions; and imperialism. My graduate teaching stresses the training of students who place contemporary analyses in the context of longer-term social, economic, and cultural/political patterns and who use historical materials to develop and elaborate social theory. I stress the importance of critical approaches to social theory and systematic empirical analysis.

Representative Publications:
Chinese Modernity and the Peasant Path: Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta (1999).

"Peasant Insurrection in China Reconsidered: A Preliminary Examination of the Jun Mountain Peasant Uprising, Nantong County, 1863," The Journal of Peasant Studies (1993).

"Economic Growth, Peasant Marginalization, and the Sexual Division of Labor in Early Twentieth Century China: Women's Work in Nantong County," Modern China (1993).

Co-author (with Philip Huang and Lynda Bell), Chinese Communists and Rural Society, 1927-1934 Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley (1978).

Notes:
Professor Walker received a Summer Seminar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1987.