JHU SAIS Names New American Co-Director of Hopkins-Nanjing Center
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has named Jan Kiely as the new American co-director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies.
Established in 1986, the center, located in Nanjing, China, is a post-graduate educational joint venture between The Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University, providing more than 130 students from the U.S. and other countries and China the unique opportunity to live and study together. In addition, the center has the only open stacks, uncensored library in China, containing more than 80,000 English and Chinese volumes. SAIS administers the center's activities on behalf of JHU.
As the Nanjing-based American co-director, Kiely is responsible for the management of the center's affairs with the Chinese co-director, as well as the administration of the newly established master's program-the first Sino-U.S. M.A. degree accredited in both countries. He also serves as an associate professor at the center where he will teach courses about the history of U.S.-Chinese social and cultural interaction.
Prior to joining the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in September, Kiely most recently served as director of the Furman in China Programs and associate professor of history and Asian studies at Furman University in Greenville, S.C.
Kiely's experiences in China began as a visiting student at Chengdu Middle School Number Seven in 1982. He later lived and studied in Wuhan, Hong Kong, Beijing and Nanjing. Kiely previously has taught at Central China Normal University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Nanjing University and Harvard University and has directed study abroad programs at Beijing University, East China Normal University and Suzhou University. A former Yale-China Fellow, Kiely currently is a National Committee on United States-China Relations Public Intellectuals Program Fellow.
Kiely received his B.A. in East Asian studies from Yale University in 1988, an M.A. in Asian history from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Chinese history from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001.
SAIS is one of the country's leading graduate schools devoted to the study of international relations. Located along Embassy Row in Washington's Dupont Circle area, the school enrolls more than 450 full-time graduate students and mid-career professionals and has trained more than 13,000 alumni in all aspects of international affairs.