Month: April 2011

The Women’s Resource Center provides history professor Huping Ling a Woman of Distinction Awards. http://newsletter.truman.edu/article.asp?id=6162

Burning Issues in Asian American Studies

Public Lecture by Dr. Huping Ling
Professor of History, Truman
Award-winning historian and Author

Tuesday April 19, 2011
7:30-8:30pm
BH 251

Sponsored by SSAS
Multicultural Affairs

For Asian American Heritage Month
At Truman

令狐萍教授：亚美研究热辨

*How does the status of Asian Americans in the United States change over times?

*How do we face the new challenges in a “China-Ascendance and US-Decline” global environment?

An internationally renowned historian and prolific and influential writer, Ling is Professor of History at Truman and Executive Editor of The Journal of Asian American Studies for the Association for Asian American Studies. A prize-winning author, she has published eleven books and over one hundred articles on Asian America. Her book Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community (2004) is a classic work on ethnic American communities in the Midwest. Her recent book Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (2010) is the winner of Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin Editors’ Choice 2010 Award. She is frequently invited to lecture on China and Asian America nationally and internationally and routinely appears on lists of notable Asian Americans and authors. She is a consultant to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Guangdong Provincial Government, and a Guest Professor at Wuhan Theoretical Research Center of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council in China.

History Professor Jerrold Hirsch was the keynote speaker at the Writing Democracy conference in March 2011.