Receiving her BA and PhD from Stanford University, Professor Dorothy Ko is the Professor of History at the Barnard College of Columbia University. As a cultural historian specializing in gender and body in early modern China, she is the author of several influential works, including Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China and Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet. Among them, the monograph Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding was awarded the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association. Recently, she was awarded an ACLS fellowship (2012 – 2013) for her current project on female artisans in China.