Education
- 1977 Bachelor's Degree, Harvard University (AB (East Asian Languages and Civilizations))
- 1996 Master's Degree, The Ohio State University (MA (History))
- 2001 Doctoral Degree, The Ohio State University (PhD (History))
Research Interests
Teaching Area:
US foreign relations; US-East Asian relations; Gender and international relations; World history
Research Interests:
US-East Asian relations, 1890-1945; Women’s transnational organizations and international affairs; feminism and internationalism
Publications:
Modernity and National Identity in the United States and East Asia, 1895-1919 (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2010)
“Translating the New Woman: Chinese Feminists View the West, 1905-1915,” Gender and History 18:3 (November 2006): 490-518; reprinted in Translating Feminisms in China, ed. Dorothy Ko and Wang Zheng (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007), 35-69.
“Beneficent Imperialists: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China,” Diplomatic History 27:3 (summer 2003): 327-52
“Uplifting the Barbarian,” in A Companion to Theodore Roosevelt, ed. Serge Ricard (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2011)