Nanjing, China

Joined the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in 2011; previously was a visiting associate professor of economics at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Mo.; prior to moving to the United States, served as associate professor and vice principal of Loyola College in Madras (Chennai), India; was also a visiting scholar at the Université Africaine de Technologie et de Management in West Africa and XLRI-Xavier Institute of Management in India; was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and taught at Peradeniya University in Sri Lanka; delivered guest lectures at La Trobe University in Australia and Chulalongkorn

In addition to serving as resident professor at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, is a professor of politics at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., teaching international relations and East Asian affairs with a focus on Japanese politics and foreign policy; was awarded a Japan Foundation dissertation fellowship and an Abe research fellowship; served as a U.S.

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.

Before coming to the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in 2008, was a social studies lecturer at Harvard University; served as a faculty adviser for the Harvard Globalization Project and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; teaching interests center around global cultural issues, including liberalism and anti-liberalism, classics of political and social theory, world political thought, modernity and its critics, rural politics and alternative development; currently working on a book about encounters among civilizations and an alternative approach to cosmopolitanism that