Qingfan Jiang

Qingfan Jiang received a Ph.D. historical musicology from Columbia University in 2021. A recipient of the AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship, Jiang is working on a book project entitled Missionaries, Music, and the Making of a Global Enlightenment. Based on archival research in Portugal, France, and China, her project highlights the importance of sacred music in the cross-cultural exchange between the East and the West. Her research lends a fresh perspective to the study of the Enlightenment not as a purely European intellectual movement but as a product of the fruitful dialogue between China and Europe. Jiang’s research is supported by ACLS, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Council for European Studies, and the Ricci Institute.