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Jeremy Murray graduated from SUNY Albany in 2001, summa cum laude with an East Asian Studies major and an English minor. He writes, "With the encouragement and logistical help of Professors Fessler, DeBlasi, Hartman, and Hargett, I went on to Columbia University for a Masters in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, focusing on modern Chinese history. After finishing my Masters there, I moved out to San Diego with my wife, Rebecca, to start in the UCSD Modern China PhD program with Joseph Esherick and Paul Pickowicz. I'm now starting my third year, and my study focus is on Republican and early PRC civil-military relations, especially on Hainan Island. I'm also interested in the missionary presence on Hainan, both French and American, and how legal cases involving extraterritoriality and religion were negotiated in the 1910s and 20s, a period of emerging sovereign, secular nation-states.
For the past five years I've been having a great time immersed in the sources on these subjects, attending conferences at Toronto, Stanford, UC Davis, UCSD, and Columbia. Next year I expect to spend most of my time doing dissertation research in the Chinese archives, splitting time between the mainland and tropical Hainan. I also hope to do some work in the French archives in the following summer. In my study at UCSD I am funded by the Javits Fellowship. Thanks to the ongoing guidance, encouragement, inspiration, and friendship of many on the EAS faculty at SUNY, I'm having a great time on the career track toward academic history."
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