Alexis Shimon
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Editor, Cornell East Asia Program
Alexis Shimon is the editor of the Cornell East Asia Series. They first came to Cornell in June 2019 as an acquisitions assistant and Mellon University Press Diversity Fellow at Cornell University Press. Alexis has a PhD in History, with a focus on the history of Chinese law, and works in both Chinese and Japanese. Some of their other interests include disability rights, comics, and queer speculative fiction.