Denise Ho

Denise Y. Ho (何若書) is an associate professor in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she teaches modern Chinese history. She is the author of Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. A Chinese translation, 策展革命：毛澤東年代的政治陳列, is forthcoming with the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press in 2025. She has served as a co-editor on a special issue and an edited volume, titled Transformation of Shen Kong Borderlands (Made in China Journal, 2020), and Material Contradictions in Mao’s China (The University of Washington Press, 2022). Her articles and reviews have appeared in The American Historical Review, The China Quarterly, and Modern China, among others. Ho is currently completing a book manuscript entitled: The Nation’s Gate: A Cross-Border History of Hong Kong and China.

Prior to joining the faculty at Georgetown, she was an assistant professor and an associate professor in Yale University's History Department. She also served as assistant professor of China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky. She is a member of the fifth cohort of the Public Intellectuals Program of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.