CURRICULUM VITAE
Department of History · University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
fuweili@uark.edu
Expected January 2027
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Defense scheduled for October 5, 2026.
Dissertation: The Huiru Grammar: Islamic Argument and Authority in Republican China.
Committee: Kelly A. Hammond, Joel Gordon, and Ruslan Yusupov.
May 2019
University of Cincinnati
Qualifying paper: Becoming Mulan and Fatimah: Women's Mosques in Early Republican Northwestern China.
Advisor: Elizabeth Frierson.
June 2017
Lanzhou University
Thesis: Cultural Identity in Xi'an's Hui Muslim Quarter: A Century of Change in Funeral Customs.
Lanzhou University Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award. Advisor: Wenjiong Yang.
Fall 2015
Soochow University, Taipei
Coursework in Republican Chinese History.
BOOK REVIEW · 2025
Fuwei Li. Chinese Studies International, volume 29 (2025). University of Hawai‘i Press.
The review examines religious change, historical identity, and the place of Uyghur Buddhism within wider Asian connections.
Read the review on Project MUSE2026–2027
King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies, University of Arkansas.
2025
University of Arkansas Graduate School; Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.
Summer 2022
King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies, University of Arkansas; archival research in Cairo, Egypt.
2017
Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati; archival research in the Chiang Kai-shek Papers at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
2022
Best Paper on an Asian or Middle Eastern Topic, University of Arkansas.
2022
Southwest Conference on Asian Studies.
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.
Panel: State Power and Negotiating Mobility: Chinese Muslim Migrants Across the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.
54th Annual Conference of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies.
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio.
51st Annual Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas.
Spring 2027
MEST 20103 · Instructor of Record (scheduled)
King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies, University of Arkansas
Fall 2026
MEST 20103 · Teaching Assistant
King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies, University of Arkansas
Spring 2026; Fall 2025
HIST 35203 · Instructor of Record
Department of History, University of Arkansas
Spring 2026; Fall 2025; Spring 2025 (two sections); Fall 2024
HIST 11193 · Instructor of Record
Department of History, University of Arkansas
Updated October 2026
CONTACT
Research, teaching, and conversations across Chinese and Islamic history.
Department of History