Mimi Cheng, Ph.D.

Mimi Cheng is a cultural historian of the global nineteenth century with research interests in three overlapping areas: transnational visual culture between Europe and East Asia, comparative histories of cartography and the built environment, and the relationship between knowledge and imperialism. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher with the Lise Meitner Group ‘Coded Objects,’ where she is completing her first book manuscript. Prior to joining the KHI, Mimi was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Her research has recently appeared in the Journal of Historical Geography and has been supported by American Council for Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, German Historical Institute Washington, and the Forschungzentrum Gotha at the Universität Erfurt, among others. She received her doctorate from the University of Rochester in 2022.