Jan Hua-Henning

Jan Hua-Henning is a historian of technology and risk, specializing in Germany and the United States. His work engages with science and technology studies, urban history, and critical disaster studies. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan University include Global Challenges in Science, Technology, and Health; Global Histories of Risk and Disaster; and the History of Infrastructure.

He has published in leading academic journals for the history of technology, including Technology & Culture, and History and Technology. Hua-Henning’s work analyzes the origins and politics of risk response. Currently, he is completing a book on Fire and Technology in Germany and the United States. At Duke Kunshan he also leads a project on global histories of risk and disaster.

Hua-Henning has an M.A. in history from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science and technology from the University of Toronto, Canada. Before joining Duke Kunshan University, he was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University Berlin.

Jan Hua-Henning是一位技术与风险史学家，研究重点涉及德国和美国。他的研究结合了科学技术研究、城市史以及灾难批判研究等领域。在昆山杜克大学，他的教学方向包括“科学、技术与健康的全球性挑战”“风险与灾难的全球史”以及“基础设施的历史”。

他的研究成果发表在技术史领域的顶级学术期刊上，包括《技术与文化》（Technology & Culture）以及《历史与技术》（History and Technology）。华-亨宁的研究主要探讨风险应对的起源及其政治性。目前，他正在完成一部关于“火灾与技术在德国与美国的历史”的专著。他还在昆山杜克大学主持一个关于风险与灾难全球史的研究项目。

Hua-Henning拥有德国达姆施塔特工业大学（Technical University Darmstadt）的历史学硕士学位，并在加拿大多伦多大学（University of Toronto）获得科学与技术历史哲学博士学位。在加入昆山杜克大学之前，他曾是柏林自由大学（Free University Berlin）“德国与欧洲高等研究计划”（Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies）的博士前研究员。