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Part-time professor, European and World history

M.A. (History): University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1996
Fulbright Fellowship to India (through the National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration), New Delhi, 1985
PhD (Education): University of Maryland, College Park, 1975
MLA (History of Ideas): The Johns Hopkins University, 1966
BA (History/Social Science): The Johns Hopkins University, 1962

Research and teaching interests

Maryknoll mission enterprise in China and the United States; American Catholic missions in China; world history; late imperial and modern China; modern and contemporary Europe; modern France; film & history

Courses offered

ASH 3404 Modern China
EUH 2021 Modern Europe (1789-Present)
EUH 3206 Twentieth Century Europe
HIS  3930  History and Film
HIS  3930  Continuity and Change in Modern France
WOH 1023 World History (1500-1815)

Recent publications

"'The Bolshevist Penetration of China': The American Catholic Mission Enterprise in China and the Development of American Catholic Anti-Communism, 1919-1937." Southeast Review of Asian Studies XXV (2003).

"Through Chinese Eyes: Chinese Catholics and the Maryknoll Mission Enterprise in the 1920s." Southeast Review of Asian Studies XX (1998).

"'Field Found!'  Establishing the Maryknoll Mission Enterprise in the United States and China, 1918-1928."  The Catholic Historical Review LXXXIV (July 1998).