ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1999 to present
University at Albany, State University of New York, Assistant Professor of History
Courses for undergraduate and graduate students on social, political, cultural, and intellectual aspects of modern Chinese and Japanese history

1997-1999
University of Washington, Instructor and Teaching Assistant
Instructor for senior undergraduate seminar on reform in China and undergraduate survey of modern Chinese history.  Teaching assistant for various lecture courses within the History Department.

EDUCATION
1990 – 1999
University of Washington, Seattle
 Doctorate of Philosophy, History Department, 1999
Dissertation: “Negotiating Power and Navigating Change in the Qing: The Zongli Yamen, 1861-1901.”
Committee Chairman: Professor R. Kent Guy 
Qualifying exam fields: History of Modern China, Modern Japan, U.S. Diplomacy, Late Imperial China

 Master of Arts, History Department, 1993
 Fields: Modern China, U.S. Diplomacy

Summer 1992
The Inter-University Program for Advanced Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, Japan
 Intermediate spoken Japanese and advanced written Japanese

1985 - 1986
The Inter-University Program for Advanced Chinese Language Studies, Taipei, Taiwan
 Advanced spoken and written Chinese and Intermediate Classical Chinese

1981- 1985
University of Chicago, Chicago
 Bachelor of Arts with Honors, Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Nature of Chinese power and power structures; Qing and twentieth-century central government activity at the local and provincial levels; state-society relationships; reform efforts; identity formation. 

LANGUAGES
Modern Chinese, Classical Chinese, Modern Japanese, Manchu

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES
June 1998  "Establishing Institutional Place and Bureaucratic Space in Fujian," paper presented at ASPAC Conference, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington 
November 1996  "Change, Power, and Bureaucracy: The Significance of the Zongli Yamen," lecture presented to History Department of Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
March 1996  "Shifting Paradigms in American Scholarship on Chinese History," lecture presented to Fu Hsing Kang College (Political War College), Taipei, Taiwan
February 1995  Steering Committee, "APEC at the Crossroads: Toward Pacific Prosperity and Cooperation," Kirkland, Washington

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
1998 Hsiao Fellowship, University of Washington
1996-1997 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Chinese
1996 Pacific Cultural Foundation Research Grant
1996 Fulbright-Hays Exchange Program for Research in Taiwan and China
1995 Center for Chinese Studies Dissertation Research Grant, Taipei, Taiwan
1995 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Chinese
1994-1995 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Chinese
1993-1994 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Chinese
1992-1993 Jackson Fellowship, University of Washington
1992, Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Japanese
1991-1992 Jackson Fellowship, University of Washington
1991, Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Japanese
1990-1991 Jackson Fellowship, University of Washington
1984-1985        Dean's List, University of Chicago

AFFILIATIONS
1996- 1997 Visiting Scholar, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
1995 - 1996  Visiting Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
1995  Visiting Scholar, Center for Chinese Studies, Taipei, Taiwan

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1996 - 1997 Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Edited English articles for publication.
1993 - 1995 The National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle. Edited and prepared articles for publication.
1994  Consultant, U.S. Attorney's Office, Criminal Division, Seattle. Translated case-related documents and prepared background paper for criminal case involving China, Hong Kong, Canada, and US.
1987- 1989 General Manager, Fusion Electronics.  Managed US operations and acted as liaison for US-Taiwan joint venture.
1987  Job Developer, Chinese-American Service League.  Helped recent immigrants from Asia find employment in Chicago area.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
Association for Asian Studies
American Historical Association
 
 
 
 

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