Michelle T. King

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Michelle T. King is an American-Chinese gender historian and food historian. [1]

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King received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1995, a Master of Arts from Stanford University in 2000, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. She teaches history at the University of North Carolina. [2] [3]

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