Background and Education

A long-standing member of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center faculty, is also professor emeritus of history at the University of Washington, having taught large numbers of undergraduate and graduate students, chaired the Department of History and served on many university-wide committees, one of which, the U.W. Architectural Commission, reflected a deep interest in architecture, buildings and master planning; upon retirement from the university in 2002, joined the faculty of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, serving as the Freeman Foundation Professor of History; is an adjunct professor at the U.S. Naval War College, and taught at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany and Yale University; current research interests are a book on the Woodrow Wilson presidency and World War I, a dual study of John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams, and the history of the city of Nanjing; Ph.D., history, Yale University