Anna will be on leave during the Spring of 2021. Please reach out to her via email for with questions. afodderegu@haverford.edu 

Anna-Alexandra Fodde-Reguer is one of the Humanities Research and Instruction librarians, covering the fields of Art, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Philosophy, and Religion. Anna received her Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Michigan in 2014, and her M.L.I.S. from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017. Her research interests include early Chinese religion, early Asian science and technology, and the intersections of art and religious practice. She is a specialist in Chinese divination practices.

In her free time, Anna spends time with her family, cultivates orchids, plays with her cats, photographs her neighborhood, and enjoys visiting museums. Her favorite Philadelphia-based museum is the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Publications:

Fodde-Reguer, A.-A. and Kwa, S., 2018. The Chinese Poster Project: EALC Pedagogy and Digital Media. ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 25(2), pp.82–99. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/ane.271

Brown, Miranda, and Anna-Alexandra Fodde-Reguer. "Rituals without Rules: Han Dynasty Mourning." In Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China, edited by N. Harry Rothschild and Leslie V. Wallace, 91-105. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017. 

Fodde-Reguer, Anna-Alexandra. "Divining Bureaucracy: Divination Manuals as Technology and the Standardization of Efficacy in Early China." PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2014.

Education:

2017. University of Pittsburgh, M.L.I.S.

2014. University of Michigan, Ph.D. Asian Languages and Cultures.

2007. University of Hawai'i, Manoa, M.A. History. 

2004. Brooklyn College, City University of New York, B.A.