Professor Maura Dykstra is a professor of history at the California Institute of Technology. She is an historian of late imperial Chinese history in which she obtained her PhD. from UCLA.

She has held fellowships at East China Normal University in Shanghai, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, the Center for Chinese Studies at the National Library of Taipei, Harvard University, and the University of Tokyo. Her current research focuses on the evolution of the Qing bureaucracy and the archival technologies that the Manchu state used to rule over its own officials and the locales for which they were responsible.

Her works include:

A Crisis of Competence: Information, Corruption, and Knowledge about the Decline of the Qing State https://journalhistoryknowledge.org/articles/10.5334/jhk.11/

Beyond the Shadow of the Law: Firm Insolvency, State-Building, and the New Policy Bankruptcy Reform in Late Qing Chongqing https://journal.hep.com.cn/fhc/EN/10.3868/s020-002-013-0028-8

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