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Advisory Board (in alphabetic order): 

Emily Baum (UC Irvine), Tony McGrew (Emeritus, Strathclyde University Glasgow/La Trobe University Melbourne), Connie Shemo (SUNY Plattsburgh), Kristin Stapleton (SUNY Buffalo), Richard Madsen (UC San Diego), Timothy Wright (University of Sheffield), Tugrul Keskin (Istanbul CGSRI), Xiaoqun Xu (Christopher Newport University) 

Director: 

Professor Dong WANG (she/her/hers), Ph.D., Ph.D. 

Dr. Wang specializes in history, geopolitics, geoculture, U.S.-China relations, modern and contemporary China, foreign relations, and Germans in America. She is a naturalized American citizen since 2006 and permanent German resident with bases in the Boston area, Mass. and Northwest Germany. A full professor of history at Gordon College on the North Shore of Boston, University of Turku Finland, and Shanghai University during the last two decades, she is also a recipient of fellowships/grants respectively from the U.S. Pew Charitable Trusts (1993-98) and the European Institute for Chinese Studies Paris/L’Institut d’études avancées de Paris (2020-21), U.S. National Endowment of Humanities of 2014-15, and Free University Berlin 2023. She conducts original research in Chinese, English, French, German, and Japanese while studying Russian and Turkish.

Books in English that she single-authored including bestsellers are: Tse Tsan Tai (1872-1938): An Australian-Cantonese in British Hong Kong (2023); Longmen’s Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China (2020), The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (2013, winner of The American Library Association’s “Choice Top 25 Outstanding Academic Titles”; 2nd and rev. ed. 2021, an amazon bestseller 2022), Managing God’s Higher Learning: U.S.-China Cultural Encounter and Canton Christian College (Lingnan University), 1888-1952 (2007), and China’s Unequal Treaties: Narrating National History (2005, an amazon Germany bestseller 2013). Among other edited works, she edited “The United States, Asia, and the Pacific, 1815-1919,” which was published in The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Guide: An Annotated Bibliography of American Foreign Relations since 1600 (2017, rev. ed. 2021).

For more information about Dr. Wang and her scholarly work, click on the link.

(Photo credit: Dr.  Dominiek Dendooven, In Flanders Fields Museum, Belgium)  

Former and Visiting M.A. and Ph.D. Students and Assistants in Shanghai (2017-2022):

Alice COLANTONI, Anastacy PIAN, Belvy Naa Teide OFORI, Bunlay SUY, Fred SSENYANGE, Galen FORD, Jian WANG, Jihoon CHUN, Kaiyin CHAN, Kung KIM, Luxia GUO, Marco LUISI, Mert BULUT, Necati DEMIRCAN, Nhung TRAN, Peng SUN, Phrohorsrithy PHANN, Rolands LIVENS, Selim Han YENIACUN, Shan LIANG, Shengling LI, Shuang LIANG, Sivmey SRENG, Viktorija VINTERE, Xiaoyun SHI, Yaming CAI, Zhigang YU