Academic Fields of Expertise
China Church History 17th - 20th c. 

Global Christianity, Sino-Western Intellectual and Religious Exchange 17th - 20th c. 

Late Imperial Chinese History (Ming and Qing Dynasties) 17th - 20th c. 

Academic Appointments
Whitworth University: 

         Professor of Chinese History (Department of History/Asian Studies), 2019-present

         Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair, appointed in 2015

Director of Oxford Tolkien-Lewis Program, 2024-present

Director of Rome History & Culture Program, 2016-present        

Director of Asian Studies, 2011-present

         Director of Study in China Program, 2011-present

         Associate Professor of Chinese History (Department of History/Asian Studies), 2011-2019

         Assistant Professor of Chinese History (Department of History/Asian Studies), 2009-2011

University of Alabama:

         Assistant Professor of Chinese History (Department of History/Asian Studies), 2005-2009

University of Oregon:

         Instructor of Chinese Cultural History and Literature (East Asian Languages and Literature), 2004-2005

Academic Degrees and Education

·  University of Oregon (1999–2005), Eugene, Oregon, Ph.D. in Chinese History, Culture, and Literature (June 2005), Department of East Asian Languages and Literature. Major Field: Chinese Early Imperial History, Culture, and Literature (Dissertation Advisor, Stephen W. Durrant), Minor Fields: Chinese Late Imperial History, Culture, and Literature (Maram Epstein), Chinese Late Imperial History (Ina Asim), Chinese Medieval Cultural History and Poetics (Michael Fishlen)

·  University of Oregon (1995–1999), Eugene, Oregon, B.A. (magna cum laude, departmental honors, and awarded commencement standard bearer) in Chinese History, Culture, and Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature. Concentration on Chinese historical texts, religions, and philosophies. Honors thesis: “The Nature of Xunzi: The Confucian Paradigm of Human Nature and Societal Order”

·  Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary (2014-2016), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Graduate studies in Eastern theology, ecclesiology, and liturgy

·  Central University for Nationalities/Minzu University of China (1996, 2011), Beijing, China. Intermediate (1996) and advanced (2011) Mandarin Chinese and Chinese cultural studies

·  Taipei Language Institute (2006), Taipei, Taiwan. Advanced spoken and reading Mandarin Chinese

·  Alliance Française (2003), Paris, France. Intermediate French language and cultural studies

·  National Taiwan Normal University (2001–2002), Taipei, Taiwan. Center for Chinese Language and Culture Studies, modern Mandarin language and classical Chinese philosophical and historical literature

Languages

·  Mandarin Chinese (advanced reading and spoken)

·  Classical Literary Chinese (advanced reading)

·  French (intermediate reading and spoken)

·  Japanese (basic reading)

Academic Sabbaticals and Leaves

· Mini-Sabbatical, Spring 2024

·  Sabbatical and Combe Trust Fellowship (IASH), University of Edinburgh, 2021-2022

·  Sabbatical, Fall Semester-Jan Term 2014-2015

·  Academic Research Leave, National Endowment for the Humanities/American Council for Learned Societies Grant, 2012-2013

·  Mini-Sabbatical, Jan-Term 2012

Publications
Books:

·  Clark, Anthony E. and Joseph W. Ho. Time Exposures: Catholic Photography and the Evolution of Modern China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, forthcoming.

·  Clark, Anthony E. Staging China: Jesuit Theater and the End of an Empire. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.

·  Clark, Anthony E. A Chinese Jesuit Catechism: Giulio Aleni’s Seventeenth-Century Four Character Classic 四字經文. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

o   Review: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu (2023), by Timothy Baycroft

·  Clark, Anthony E. China’s Catholics in an Era of Transition : Observations of an “Outsider.” London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

o   Review: Religious Studies Review (2021), by Wei Xiong

·  Clark, Anthony E. China Gothic: The Bishop of Beijing and His Cathedral. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019.

o   Review: East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (2022), by Wang Lianming

o   Review: The Chinese Historical Review (2021), by Yang Zhiguo

o   Review: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2021), by Wei Luo

o   Review: ABE Journal – Architecture Beyond Europe (2021), by Shu Changxue

o   Review: Religious Studies Review (2020), by Joseph Chadwin

o   Review/Bibliographic Database: ProtoView, Ringgold (2020)

o   Review: Monumenta Serica (2020), by David E. Mungello

·  Clark, Anthony E. Catholicism and Buddhism: The Contrasting Lives and Teaching of Jesus and the Buddha. Eugene: Wipf & Stock/Cascade Press, 2018.

o   Review: Reading Religion, American Academy of Religion (2020), by Robert Magliola

o   Review: Buddhist-Christian Studies (2019), by Massimo Rondolino

·  Clark, Anthony E., ed. China’s Christianity: From Missionary to Indigenous Church. Leiden: Brill Press, 2017. [Choice, “Highly Recommended”]

o   Review: Studies in World Christianity (2020), by Carl S. Kilcourse

o   Review: Missiology: An International Review (2019), by Daniel Scott

o   Review: Journal of Religious History (2019), by Feng Yue

o   Review: Journal of Jesuit Studies (2018), by Paul Rule

o   Review: Asian Ethnology (2018), by Simeiqi He

o   Review: International Review of Mission (2018), by Liu Ruomin

o   Review: Choice “Humanities” (2018), by Christopher Pearson

·  Clark, Anthony E. Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015.

o   Review: American Historical Review (2016), by Paul R. Katz

o   Review: Catholic Historical Review (2015), by Ernest P. Young

o   Review: Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal (2015), by R. G. Tiedemann

o   Review: The China Quarterly (2015), by Andrew T. Kaiser

o   Review: Nan Nü (2015), by Thomas D. DuBois

o   Review: Catholic World Report (2015), by Eric Cunningham

·  Clark, Anthony E. 柯學斌. Zhonghua Tianzhujiao xundao jianshi 中華天主教殉道簡史 [A Concise History of Catholic Martyrdom in China]. Hong Kong 香港: Ciyouhui chubanshe 慈幼會出版社, 2013.

·  Clark, Anthony E., ed. A Voluntary Exile: Chinese Christianity and Cultural Confluence since 1552. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.

o   Review: Journal of Chinese Religions (2016), by Lars Peter Laamann

o   Review: American Historical Review (2015), in “Collected Essays”

·  Clark, Anthony E. China’s Saints: Catholic Martyrdom during the Qing (1644-1911). Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.

o      Review: Asia Pacific Mission Studies (2022), by Ramil Marcos

o      Review: Catholic Historical Review (2015), by Gail King

o   Review: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (2013), by Claudia von Collani

o   Review: Mission Studies (2013), by Alexander Chow

o   Review: Theological Studies (2012), by Ulrich L. Lehner

o   Review: Catholic Historical Review (2012), by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

o   Review: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (2012), by R. G. Tiedemann

·  Clark, Anthony E., ed. Beating Devils and Burning Their Books: Views of China, Japan, and the West. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press/Association for Asian Studies, 2010.

o   Review: The China Journal (2012), by Pichamon Yeophantong

o   Review: East Asia (2011), by Wu Junqing

·  Clark, Anthony E. Ban Gu’s History of Early China. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2008. [Sinophone World Series]

o   Review: Journal of the American Oriental Society (2008), by Miranda Brown

Books in Preparation:

·  Anthony E. (Study of Jesuit orphanage atelier in Shanghai).

Journal Articles:

· Clark, Anthony E. “The Resolve of a Commoner: Some Reflections on China’s Catholics Today” China Source Quarterly, Vol. 26, Issue 2 (Lead Article, Autumn 2024): 6-9.

· Clark, Anthony E. “In Memoriam – Kathleen L. Lodwick” Perspectives in History (American Historical Association), Vol. 60, Issue 7 (October 2022): 37.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Tribute to Jean-Paul Wiest” Ching Feng (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Vol. 20 (2022): 1-5.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Cor ad Cor Loquitur, Cardinal Newman Speaks to China: Newman, Pusey, and the Issue of a National Church.” Newman Studies Journal (Catholic University of America), Vol. 17, Issue 1 (Summer 2020): 52-77.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “An Anomaly of Good Form: A Gothic Church in Shanghai, City of Modernity.” Sacred Architecture, Issue 37 (2020): 17-21.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Forgotten Classics in American Catholicism: John C. H. Wu’s Beyond East and West.” American Catholic Studies, Vol. 130, No. 4 (Winter 2019): 59-61.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Beijing’s ‘New’ Cathedral: Renewal of a Classical Monument,” Sacred Architecture, Issue 34 (2018): 15-19.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Finding Our Way: Thomas Merton, John Wu, and the Christian Dialogue with Early China.” The Merton Annual, Vol. 30 (Spring 2018): 188-202.

·  Clark, Anthony E. 柯學斌. “Jinshi chuqi Zhongguo minju dui xifang xuanjiao shengxianghua de fanying 僅是初期中國民聚對西方宣教聖象畫的反應 [Initial Responses to Christian Cross Imagery in China].” Guoji Hanxue 國際漢學, Beijing Foreign Studies University 北京外國語大學, Vol. 12, No. 3 (September 2017): 37-45.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Shifting Landscapes: Sino-American Catholic Identities, 1900-Present.” U.S. Catholic Historian, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Spring 2016): 3-25.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Sanctioned Heterodoxy: Local Cults in Two Chinese Catholic Villages, 1900-Present.” Frontiers of History in China, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2016): 42-65.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “China’s Tale of Two Churches: Epic Building in an Era of Destruction,” Sacred Architecture, Issue 27 (2015): 30-31.

·  Clark, Anthony E., and Amanda C. R. Clark. “Building for the Senses: A Resurgence of Sacred Architecture in China,” Sacred Architecture, Issue 25 (2014): 10-18.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Vincentian Footprints in China: The Lives, Deaths, and Legacies of François-Regis Clét, CM, and Jean-Gabriel Perboyre, CM.” Vincentian Heritage, Vol. 32, No. 1 (2014): 1-38.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Weaving a Profound Dialogue Between West and East: On Matteo Ricci, SJ.” U.S.-China Review, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Summer 2011): 16-17.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Praise and Blame: Ruist Historiography in Ban Gu’s Hanshu.” The Chinese Historical Review, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring 2011): 1-24.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Early Modern Chinese Reactions to Western Missionary Iconography.” Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Vol. 30 (2008): 5-22.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Reflections on the Han View of Truth and Historicity with a Translation of Ban Biao’s ‘Essay on Historiography’.” Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Vol. 28 (2006): 107-119.

Book Chapters and Introductions:

· Clark, Anthony E. “Oh Soul Come Back: Early China in Dialogue with the Angelic Doctor,” in Festschrift in Honor of Professor Judith Beall. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, forthcoming.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “From Nouvelle-France to the ‘Civilizing Mission’: Noël Chabanel and the Jesuit Martyrs of China,” in Life and Death in the Mission of New France and East Asia, edited by Antoni Ucerler and Wu Xiaoxin. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Roman Catholic Foreign Missionaries: 19th Century China,” in The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia, edited by Cindy Yik-yi Chu and Beatrice Leung. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Saving the Children: Catholic Sisters and Social Reform in Republican Beijing,” in Christianity and the Modern Woman in East Asia, edited by Garrett Washington. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

·  Clark, Anthony E. 柯學斌.  “Foreword 序言,” in Chujing yu shiye: Hu Shan Zhongwai jiaoliu de guangying jiyi 處境與視野：湖汕中外交流的光影記憶 [Context and Horizon: Visualizing Sino-Western Cultural Encounters in Chaoshan], edited by Joseph Tse-Hei Lee 李榭熙 and Christie Chui-Shan Chow 周翠珊. Beijing 北京: Shenghuo dushu/Shantou University Press 生活讀書汕頭大學出版社, 2017.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Foreword,” in China’s Last Jesuit: Charles J. McCarthy and the End of the Mission in Catholic Shanghai, by Amanda C. R. Clark. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Local Magistrates and Foreign Mendicants: Chinese Views of Shanxi’s Franciscan Mission during the Late Qing,” in Reshaping the Boundaries: The Christian Intersection of China and the West in the Modern Era, edited by Song Gang. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016.

·  Clark, Anthony E.  “The Life and Works of Ban Gu,” in The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, edited by Kerry Brown. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing, 2014.

·  Clark, Anthony E. 柯學斌. “Ming-Qing Zhongxi guanxi shi: Guo neiwai dang’an yanjiu qingkuang yu fangfa (Taiyuan) 明清中西關係史:國內外檔案 研究情況与方法(太原)  [History of Sino-Western Relations during the Ming and Qing: The Situation and Methods of Archival Research In and Out of China (Taiyuan)],” in Yuanfang xushi: Zhongguo jidu zongjiao yanjiu de shijiao fangfa yu qushi 遠方敘事:中國基督宗教研究的視角方法与趨勢 [Narratives from the Hinterland: Perspectives, Methodologies and Trends in the Study of Christianity in China], edited by Wu Xiaoxin 吳小新. Guangxi 廣西: Guangxi Normal University Press 廣西師範大學出版社, 2014.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Out of the Ashes: Remembrance and Reconstruction in Catholic Shanxi, 1900 to the Present,” in Chinese Catholicism, 1900-Present, edited by Cindy Yik-Yi Chu. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Introduction,” in The Memoirs of Jin Luxian: Learning and Relearning, 1916-1982, translated by William Hanbury-Tenison. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012.

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Ban Gu” and “Ban Biao,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Classical Chinese Writers: Pre-Tang Era (-598), edited by Curtis Dean Smith. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2010.

Book Reviews:

· Clark, Anthony E. Missionary Spaces: Imagining, Building, Contesting Christianities in Africa and China, 18303-1960s, edited by Thomas Coomans, 2024 (The Catholic Historical Review, Autumn 2024). 

· Clark, Anthony E. The Luminous Way to the East: Texts and History of the First Encounters of Christianity with China, by Matteo Nicolini-Zani, 2022 (Journal of Asian Studies, June 2024).

· Clark, Anthony E. This Suffering is My Joy: The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China, by David E. Mungello, 2021 (Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 109, No. 2, June 2023).

·  Clark, Anthony E. The Acta Pekinensia or Historical Records of the Maillard de Tournon Legation, by Kilian Stumpf, SJ, translated by Paul A. Rule and Claudia von Collani, 2019 (Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 7, 2020).

·  Clark, Anthony E. Jesuits and Matriarchs: Domestic Worship in Early Modern China, by Nadine Amsler, 2018 (China Review International, Vol. 24, No. 4, 2019).

·  Clark, Anthony E. Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Travelled: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds, by Dominic Sachsenmaier, 2018 (Journal of Chinese Religions, Vol. 7, Issue 2, November 2019).

·  Clark, Anthony E. The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World, edited by Ines G. Županov and Pierre Antoine Fabre, 2018 (Journal of Chinese Religions, Vol. 6, 2019).

·  Clark, Anthony E. War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937-1938, edited by Charles Bright and Joseph W. Ho, 2017 (The Chinese Historical Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, May 2019).

·  Clark, Anthony E. Review Essay, Borrowed Place: Mission Stations and Local Adaptation in Early Twentieth-Century China, by Riika-Leena Juntunen, 2015; The Catholic Invasion of China: Remaking Chinese Christianity, by David E. Mungello, 2015; Christian Monks on Chinese Soil: A History of Monastic Missions to China, by Matteo Nicolini-Zani, 2016 (Journal of Chinese History, Vol. 3, Issue 1, January 2019).

·  Clark, Anthony E. The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts: Chinese and European Stories about Emperor Ku and His Concubines, by Nicolas Standaert, 2016 (Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 4, 2017).

·  Clark, Anthony E. Matteo Ricci and the Catholic Mission to China: A Short History with Documents, by R. Po-chia Hsia, 2016 (Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 3, Issue 4, 2016).

·  Clark, Anthony E. Jesuit Mapmaking in China: D’Anville’s Nouvel atlas de la Chine, edited by Roberto Ribeiro, SJ, and John O’Malley, SJ, 2014 (Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 102, No. 3, Summer 2016).

·  Clark, Anthony E. The Virgin Mary and Catholic Identity in Chinese History, by Jeremy Clarke, SJ, 2013 (American Historical Review, Vol. 120, No. 1, February 2015).

·  Clark, Anthony E. The Missionary’s Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village, by Henrietta Harrison, 2013 (The Chinese Historical Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, November 2014).

·  Clark, Anthony E. Church Militant: Bishop Kung and Catholic Resistance in Communist Shanghai, by Paul P. Mariani, SJ, 2011 (The Chinese Historical Review, Vol. 18, No. 1, May 2012).

·  Clark, Anthony E. A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci 1552-1610, by R. Po-Chia Hsia, 2010 (American Historical Review, Vol. 116, No. 4, October 2011).

·  Clark, Anthony E. Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China, edited by On-cho Ng and Q. Edward Wang, 2005 (Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, Issue 4, 2010).

·  Clark, Anthony E. Notions of Time in Chinese Historical Thinking, edited by Chun-chieh Huang and John B. Henderson, 2006 (Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, Issue 3, 2010).

Translation:

·  Translated from the Chinese: Wang Yinglin, “Three Character Classic” and Giulio Aleni, “Four Character Classic.” In Clark, Anthony E. A Chinese Jesuit Catechism: Giulio Aleni’s Seventeenth-Century Four Character Classic 四字經文. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

·  Translated from the Chinese: Liu Anrong, “Catholic and Chinese Folk Religion during the Republican Era in the Region of Taiyuan, Shanxi.” In A Voluntary Exile: Chinese Christianity and Cultural Confluence since 1552, edited by Anthony E. Clark. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press/Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

·  Translated from the Chinese: Ban Biao, ‘Essay on Historiography’.” Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Vol. 28 (2006): 107-119.

Ph.D. Dissertation:

·  Clark, Anthony E. “Historian of the Orchid Terrace: Partisan Polemics in Ban Gu’s Hanshu,” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 2005.

Digital Humanities Projects

·  Co-organizer and Director, “Professor Marion Dean Ross Architecture Lecture Series.” Co-organized and directed the digital preservation and online access of a series of architectural history lectures by the late Marion Dean Ross (1913-1991), sponsored and hosted by the Marion Dean Ross Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2020
[https://www.sahmdr.org]
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOigu4WShKQ2PdmDQDhenUg]

·  Organizer and Host, “Christianity in China: Recollections on the Field by Prominent Scholars.” Organized and hosted a series of twenty international online interviews with prominent scholars in the field of China Christianity Studies, sponsored by the China Christianity Studies Group (CCSG)/Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and Whitworth University Library, 2020
[https://www.chinachristianitystudies.org]

·  Organizer and Director, “China Christian Missions Collection” online database and digital archive of China missionary images and primary documents, sponsored and hosted by Whitworth University Library Digital Commons, 2018
[https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/china_christian_missions/]

·  Co-organizer and Director with Jean-Paul Wiest and Amanda C. R. Clark, “Société des Auxiliaires des Missions (SAM) China Mission Photographs Digital Archive,” sponsored by the SAM Archive in Brussels and Whitworth University Library, 2018
[https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/societe_auxiliaires_missions/]

Named Distinctions

·  George Combe Fellow (Combe Trust): Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and New College Centre for the Study of World Christianity to lecture and conduct research on the Jesuit China enterprise and its use of a Baroque imagination in late Qing China, 2021-22 (University of Edinburgh)

·  Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair: Appointed 2015 in the Department of History (Whitworth University)

·  J. William Fulbright Fellow: Awarded for research in early Chinese history and literature, 2001-2002 (Taipei, Taiwan)

·  David L. Boren Fellow: National Security Education Program (NSEP), for research in early Chinese historiography, 2001 (Taipei, Taiwan)

Named Archival Collection

·  “Anthony E. Clark Collection” of rare books, documents, photographs, ephemera, and research papers related to the religious and cultural history of Sino-Western exchange, housed at the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History (Boston College)

Honors, Grants , and Awards

· Lanterman Foundation Research Grant for research related to Chinese orphans supported by Jesuit missions during China’s late imperial and early modern eras, 2024-2025 (Rome, Italy and Paris, France)

·  Faculty Research Development Fellowship, 2024 (Whitworth University, Spokane)

·  Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of (FRAS), elected by Council on 28 February 2024, London, UK

 ·  Provost’s Scholarship Award (for distinguished scholarly contribution to the academy), 2023 (Whitworth University, Spokane)

·  Weyerhaeuser Summer Research Grant for research related to Jesuit theater in Zhili and greater China, 2022 (Prague, Czech Republic)

·  European Commission Fellowship for Scholarly Colloquies on Christian martyrdom in early modern Asia (Director: Iveta Nakladalova), 2022 (Olomouc, Czech Republic)

·  Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), elected by Council on 22 March 2021, London, UK

·  Whitworth University Summer Research Fellowship to conduct research on the nineteenth-century Jesuit mission in Hebei, China, 2020 (Beijing, China)

·  National Institute for Newman Studies (NINS) Grant and Visiting Scholar for research related to the epistolary exchange between John Henry Cardinal Newman and Edward Bouverie Pusey [Oxford]/Gong Pinmei and Jin Luxian [Shanghai], 2019 (Pittsburgh, PA)

·  Weyerhaeuser Summer Research Grant for research related to ecclesial and secular architecture in Beijing and greater China, 2019 (Victoria, BC, Canada)

·  Pamela Corpron Parker Memorial Fellowship for research related to Western ecclesial architecture in Beijing and greater China, 2018-2019 (Oxford, UK, and Paris, France)

·  Donald R. Ellegood International Publications Endowment to support the publication of Heaven in Conflict: Franciscans and the Boxer Uprising in Shanxi, 2015

·  National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for work on Franciscan missionaries and Sino-Western religious interactions in Shanxi, 2012-2013 (Beijing, China)

·  American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) Research Grant for work on Franciscan missionaries and Sino-Western religious interactions in Shanxi, 2012-2013 (Beijing, China)

·  Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (CCK), Scholar’s Research Grant for work on Franciscan missionaries and Sino-Western religious interactions in Shanxi, 2012-2013 (Beijing, China and Hong Kong)

·  International College of Education Fellowship for Advanced Study in Chinese Language and Culture, Minzu University of China, 2011 (Beijing, China)

·  AAS-CIAC Chiang Ching-kuo Grant for research in Taipei, Taiwan, 2010 (The China and Inner Asia Council of the AAS and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation)

·  Blackman-Moody Outstanding Professor Award, 2009 (University of Alabama)

·  Vincentian Studies Institute Research Grant (Lazarist, DePaul University) for research in China and France 2008-2009 (Beijing, China and Paris, France)

·  William’s Fund Award for research in Vatican and Roman archives, Rome, Italy 2007-2008 (Vatican City and Rome, Italy)

·  American Oriental Society Distinguished Paper Award, 2004 (AOS Annual Meeting).

·  Freeman Scholarship for study of Mandarin Chinese, 1996 (Beijing, China)

·  Institute of International Education Scholarship (Blakemore Freeman Foundation) for study of Mandarin Chinese, 1996 (Beijing, China)

·  Honors and Recognitions (Undergraduate): Magna Cum Laude, Departmental Honors, Commencement Standard Bearer for high academic performance, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, Golden Key Honor Society, Dean’s List for High Academic Distinction, 1995-1999

Archival Research

·  Archivio Storico di Propaganda Fide, 2014, 2019 (Rome, Italy)

·  Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI), 2012, 2019, 2023, 2024 (Rome, Italy)

·  Pusey House Library and Special Collections/Archives, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University, 2018 (Oxford, UK)

·  Weston Library Special Collections/Archives, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University, 2017 (Oxford, UK)

·  Archive de la Société des Auxiliaires des Missions, 2017 (Brussels, Belgium)

·  Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco, 2016 (San Francisco)

·  Archiwum Polskiej Prowincji Dominikanów w Krakowie, 2014 (Krakow, Poland)

·  Archivio Segreto Vaticano, 2007, 2012, 2014 (Vatican City)

·  Archives de la Province de France de la Compagnie de Jésus, 2013 (Vanves, France)

·  Archives de la Congregation de la Mission (Lazarist Maison-Mère), 2013 (Paris, France)

·  Archivio Curia Generalizia dei Frati Minori, 2012 (Rome, Italy)

·  Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, 2007, 2012 (Vatican City)

·  Bibleoteca Antonianum, Order of Friars Minor, 2012 (Rome, Italy)

·  DeAndreis-Rosati Memorial Archives, DePaul University, 2012 (Chicago, IL)

·  Tianjin Diocesan Archive and Library, 2011 (Tianjin, China)

·  Jesuit Archive of the China Province, 2001-2002, 2010 (Taipei, Taiwan)

·  Shanghai Municipal Archives, 2010 (Shanghai, China)

·  Xujiahui Rare Books Collection - former Jesuit Library, 2010, 2011 (Shanghai, China)

·  Archives des Missions Étrangères de Paris, 2007 (Paris, France)   

·  Jesuit Archives/Documents Archive of Fujen University, 2006, 2011 (Taipei, Taiwan)

·  Institut für Sinologie und Ostasienkunde, Münster University, 2004 (Münster, Germany)

·  Bibliothèques des Instituts D’Extrême-Orient, Collège de France, 2003 (Paris, France)

·  Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library, 2001-2002 (Taipei, Taiwan)

Scholarly Papers, Panels, and Invited Lectures (Selected)

·  Talk, “abolishing God: China’s Catholics in a Communist Country,” The Society of Gilbert Kieth Chesterton, Spokane, WA, 11 December 2024

·  Talk, “Jesuit Theater and Canonization: China, Saints, and the Western Enlightenment,” Gonzaga University, 2 December 2024

·  Talk, “A Baroque Confucian: Matteo Ricci’s Legacy of Inculturation and Integration in Late Imperial China,” Matteo Ricci: The Person, the Missionary Circumstances, and the Legacy, Pontifical Gregorian University, 15 November 2024

·  Chair and Discussant, Eleventh European Catholic China Colloquium, China-Zentrum, Sieburg, Germany, 20-26 August 2024

·  Paper, “Engaging Chinese Catholicism in Academia,” United States Catholic China Association (USCCA) International Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 4 August 2024

·  Paper, “From Boarders to Bridges: China’s Catholic Church and the USCCA,” United States Catholic China Association (USCCA) International Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 3 August 2024

·  Chair, “Theology and Faith Formation in the Chinese Context,” United States Catholic China Association (USCCA) International Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 3 August 2024

·  Keynote Talk, “Keeping the Hill Green: China’s Catholic Future,” United States Catholic China Association (USCCA) International Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 2 August 2024

·  Talk, “China Baroque: Promoting China’s Jesuit Saints in Hagiographic Art and Drama,” Picturing Sainthood: Images and the Making of Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism, Bibliotheca Herziana Max Planck Institute, sponsored by the University of Zurick, Rome, Italy, 20 June 2024

·  Talk, “Professor Robert Entenmann’s Life and Work on Eighteenth-Century China,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting/CCSG, Seattle, WA, 16 March 2024

·  Discussant, “Emerging Scholars of Christianity in China,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting/CCSG, Seattle, WA, 16 March 2024

·  Talk, “The Lan Su Chinese Garden: Portland’s Treasure of Sino-Western Exchange,” Sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians, Marion Dean Ross Chapter, Portland, OR, 8 October 2023.

·  Talk, “China’s Catholics: A ‘Field Report’,” College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 12 September 2023

·  Talk, “Oh Soul Come Back: Early China in Dialogue with the Angelic Doctor,” Aquinas and Chinese Thought Conference, University of Saint Mary of the Lake and Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, IL, 24 March 2023

·  Tribute, “The Legacy of Dr. Kathleen L. Lodwick, Founder of the China Christianity Studies Group,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting/CCSG, Boston, MA, 18 March 2023

·  Talk, “China’s Stage: Jesuit Drama at the End of an Empire,” Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI), Jesuit Curia, Rome, Italy, 20 January 2023

·  Talk, “Staging China: Christian Theater and the Conversation of an Empire,” Weyerhaeuser Center Scholarship Forum, Whitworth University, 14 November 2022

·  Lecture, “China’s Three Teachings: Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism,” Institute of Catholic Culture (by video-conference), 25 October 2022

·  Concluding Remarks, “Ut Sanguis Martyrum Sit Semen Christianorum: Martyrdom in Early Modern Christian Missions in Asia,” after concluding sessions, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2 June 2022

·  Lecture, “The Theatre of Martyrdom: Jesuit Spectacle and Drama in Early Modern China,” Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 1 June 2022

·  Chair, “Ut Sanguis Martyrum Sit Semen Christianorum: Martyrdom in Early Modern Christian Missions ins Asia,” all afternoon sessions, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 1 June 2022

·  Talk, “From Matteo Ricci to Pope Francis: Jesuits and Christian Dialogue in China,” Inaugural talk for the (re)opening of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, sponsored by the US-China Catholic Association (USCCA) and the Ricci Institute, Boston College, Boston, 4 May 2022

·  Paper, “Resilience and Fortitude in the Chinese Catholic Experience: A Short History of Catholic Martyrdom in China,” St. John Paul II National Shrine/Institute, Washington, DC, 19 February 2022

·  Talk and Open Discussion, “The Theater of Conversion: Catholic Drama and the (Re)Presentation of China,” Centre for the Study of World Christianity (CSWC), New College, University of Edinburgh, 2 November 2021

·  Talk and Open Discussion, “The Theater of Canonization: The Making of Jesuit Saints in Late Imperial China,” Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, 20 October 2021

·  Paper, “Jesuit Correspondence from Zhili during the Boxer Uprising,” International Symposium on the 120th Anniversary of the Boxer Movement in China, Jinan, China, 16 October 2021

·  Citation/Paper, 直徑學者魏揚波博士 “Tribute Citation in Honor of Wei Yangbo (Jean-Paul Wiest),” The 12th International Symposium on the History of Christianity in Modern China 第十二屆中國基督教史國際學術研討會, International Symposium, Hong Kong, 20 August 2021

·  Paper, 作為傳記的書信交換：晚清的四位耶穌會士 “Epistolary Exchange as Biography: Four Jesuits of the Late Qing Dynasty,” The 12th International Symposium on the History of Christianity in Modern China 第十二屆中國基督教史國際學術研討會, International Symposium, Hong Kong, 13 August 2021

·  Lecture, “Jesuits and the Sino-Gothic Vision of China,” Sino-Christian Architecture: Scholars Respond to Adelbert Gresnigt, OSB (1877-1956), International Symposium, Whitworth University Simpson-Duvall Lecture Series, 19 April 2021

·  Talk and Open Discussion, Moderated by Joseph Tse-hei Lee, “Meet the Author of China Gothic: The Bishop of Beijing and His Cathedral,” Confucius Institute, Webster University, 10 March 2021

·  Discussant, “Mission Records as Method: Towards a Microhistory of Global China A Virtual Workshop with Dr. Eugenio Menegon,” Duke University Humanities Unbounded MicroWorlds Lab, 30 July 2020

·  Talk and Open Discussion, Co-Chaired with Joseph Tse-hei Lee, “China Christianity Research Today Roundtable,” Ricci Scholar’s Study: Summer 2020 Academic Program at the Ricci Institute, University of San Francisco, 30 July 2020

·  Discussant and Senior Scholar Mentor, “Christianity in East Asia Roundtable,” Ricci Scholar’s Study: Summer 2020 Academic Program at the Ricci Institute, University of San Francisco, 23 July 2020

·  Discussant, International Symposium on the Chinese Catholic Church in its Manifestation of Power and Knowledge, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 26 June 2020

·  Discussant, Service of Documentation and Study on Global Mission (SEDOS) International Meeting, Spring Session with the Vatican Secretary of State, “China Mission Today,” Rome, 19 June 2020. Co-organized by La Civiltà Cattolica

·  Talk and Open Discussion on China Gothic: The Bishop of Beijing and His Cathedral, Notre Dame Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, 29 April 2020

·  Inaugural talk for the investiture of President Joseph E. Nyre, “Sino-Vatican Relations: A History in ‘Three Keys’,” Seton Hall University, 7 November 2019

·  Talk, “The Dominican Mission in the Context of China’s Catholic Enterprise,” St. Dominic’s Academy, Post Falls, ID, 17 July 2019

·  Paper, “State of the Field in Sino-Western Studies,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting/CCSG, Denver, CO, 22 March 2019

·  Lecture, “Bonfire of the Humanities: The Moorings of Academy Adrift,” Edward B. Lindaman Talk Series, Whitworth University, 29 November 2018

·  Lecture and Discussant, “From New France to the ‘Civilizing Mission’: Noël Chabanel and the Jesuit Martyrs of China,” Life and Death in the Missions of New France and East Asia: Narratives of Faith and Martyrdom Symposium, Midland, Ontario, hosted by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco, 18-20 October 2018

·  Lecture, “Behind the Archives Door: Exploring Artifacts from the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests,” University of Puget Sound, 20 September 2018

·  Paper, “China’s Catholic Reform: Chinese Nuns and the Republican Era Movement for Women’s Education and Equality,” The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) Annual Conference, Pullman, WA, 9 June 2018

·  Commentator, “Missionary Agency in the Context of WWII: Transnational Perspectives,” The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) Annual Conference, Pullman, WA, 9 June 2018

·  Commentator, “Ancient and Modern China Panel,” Phi Alpha Theta (PAT) Northwest Regional Conference, Spokane, WA, 21 April 2018

·  Chair, “Oda Nobunaga and the Tokugawa Shogunate Panel,” Phi Alpha Theta (PAT) Northwest Regional Conference, Spokane, WA, 20 April 2018

·  Commentator, “Philosophy and Statecraft in Ancient China Panel,” Phi Alpha Theta (PAT) Northwest Regional Conference, Spokane, WA, 20 April 2018

·  Lecture, “China’s Emergent Religious Context: Reflections on Catholicism in China Today,” John Paul II Society, Gonzaga University, 25 March 2018

·  Chair/Commentator, China Christianity Studies Group (CCSG), Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 23 March 2018

·  Talk, “The Religious Façade: Cultural Encounter and the Architecture of Conversion in China,” Edward B. Lindaman Talk Series, Whitworth University, 14 March 2018

·  Lecture, “China’s Hidden Catholics, 1960-1980,” Bishop White Roman Catholic Seminary, Gonzaga University, 6 March 2018

·  Lecture, “Restoration of Chinese Catholicism, 1900-1949,” Bishop White Roman Catholic Seminary, Gonzaga University, 27 February 2018

·  Senior Scholar Mentor and Commentator for Two Monograph Projects, “Historical Legacies of Christianity in East Asia: Bridging a New Generation of Scholars and Scholarship,” Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 20-23 September 2017

·  Lecture, “China Gothic: The Catholic Aesthetic of Beijing,” History Lecture Series, Christendom College, 13 November 2017

·  Chair, “Themes in Chinese History Panel,” Phi Alpha Theta (PAT) Northwest Regional Conference, Spokane, WA, 8 April 2017

·  Commentator, “War and Reform in Qing China Panel,” Phi Alpha Theta (PAT) Northwest Regional Conference, Spokane, WA, 7 April 2017

·  Lecture, “Daoist Dialectics: The Epistolary Exchanges of Thomas Merton and John H. Wu,” Translating Religion and Theology in Europe and Asia: East to West, University of California, Berkeley, 23 March 2017

·  Talk, “Finding Our Way: Thomas Merton, John Wu, and the Christian Dialogue with Early China,” Edward B. Lindaman Talk Series, Whitworth University, 8 March 2017

·  Opening Talk, “The Ideal of Scholarship: Why ‘Stamp Collecting’ Matters,” Faculty Development Day, Whitworth University, 24 February 2017

·  Lecture, “Dominicans in China: And the Sun Shone on the Middle Kingdom,” Dominican Forum Keynote Talk and Scholarly Panel, Holy Rosary Dominican Priory, Portland, OR, 24 May 2016

·  Paper, “Beyond the Dusty World: Daoism and the Epistolary Dialectics of Thomas Merton and John Wu,” A Symposium in Memory of Seton Hall University Professor John Ching-Hsiung Wu, Seton Hall University, 22 April 2016

·  Paper, “Sealing Fate and Changing Course: French Catholicism and Chinese Conversion,” China’s Christianity: Constructing a Christian Identity - From Mission to Indigenous Church Symposium, Whitworth University, 5 November 2015

·  Lecture, “Struggle and Reconstruction: Catholic Survival in Modern China from Mao to the Present,” University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 24 October 2015

·  Paper, “Shifting Landscapes: American Catholics and Understanding China,” U.S. Catholic China Bureau, Burlingame, CA, 11 October 2015

·  Lecture, “A Culture of Resistance: Catholic Women and Social Reform in Republican China,” Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Kentucky, 1 October 2015

·  Lecture, “China’s Tale of Two Cities: Beijing, Shanghai, and a Legacy of Catholic Perseverance,” Medieval Catholicism Lecture Series, Seton Hall University, 30 April 2015

·  Paper, “China Gothic: ‘Indigenous’ Church Design in Late-Imperial Beijing,” Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 16 April 2015

·  Paper, “Saving the Children: Catholic Sisters and Social Reform in Republican Beijing,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 29 March 2015

·  Paper, “Fr. Paul Serruys, Stephen Durrant, and the Voices of Ancient China,” A Symposium in Honor of Stephen Durrant: Ancient China, Texts, Traditions, and Transformations, University of Oregon, 14 February 2015

·  Paper, “Hagiography and Historicity: Li Wenyu’s Quanhuo ji Account of the 1900 Siege of Beitang Cathedral,” American Oriental Society (AOS) Western Branch 2014 Annual Meeting, Stanford University, 1 November 2014

·  Chair, “Church and Comedy in African-American Culture Panel,” Phi Alpha Theta (PAT) Northwest Regional Conference, Coeur d’Alene, ID, 12 April 2014

·  Keynote Address, “Unbroken Jade: Matteo Ricci’s Advice for Study Abroad,” National Association of Foreign Student Advisors (NAFSA) Annual Meeting 2013, Spokane, WA, 17 October 2013

·  Lecture, “China’s Missionary Legacy: From the Collapse of the Empire to the Post-Maoist Restoration,” Bishop Charles Daniel White Serra Lecture 2013, Gonzaga University, 27 July 2013

·  Paper, “Out of the Ashes: Remembrance and Reconstruction in Catholic Shanxi, 1900-Present,” LEWI Symposium on the Catholic Church in China, 1900 to the Present Scholarly Meeting, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 7 June 2013

·  Paper, “Local Magistrates and Foreign Mendicants: Chinese Views of Shanxi’s Franciscan Mission During the Late Qing, 1700-1900,” Strangers in Distant Lands: The West in Late-Imperial China Scholarly Meeting, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 8 December 2012

·  Scholarly Roundtable, 漢學與中西文化交流圓桌討論 “Roundtable Discussion - Sinology and Sino-Foreign Exchanges,” Hangzhou Symposium on Sinology and Sino-Foreign Relations and Cultural Exchanges Scholarly Meeting, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 16 November 2012

·  Paper, 重捨過去的中國：西方檔案館有關晚清和民國時期中的傳教士老照片 “Recovering China’s Past: Missionary Photographs of Late-Imperial and Republican China in Western Archives,” Hangzhou Scholarly Symposium on Sinology and Sino-Foreign Relations and Cultural Exchanges, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 15 November 2012

·  Chair/Commentator, 西方人眼中的中國形象 “The Image of China in Western Perspectives Panel,” Hangzhou Scholarly Symposium on Sinology and Sino-Foreign Relations and Cultural Exchanges, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 15 November 2012

·  Lecture, “China’s Century and the West in History: Historical Research in China on the Early Modern Era,” Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), Fall Lecture 2012, Whitworth University, 23 October 2012 [from Beijing, China, via video conference]

·  Commentator/Organizer, “China, Japan, and the Confluence of Christianity,” Scholarly Panel, The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) Annual Conference, Spokane, WA, 16 June 2012

·  Plenary Address, “Beginnings, Ends, and Transformations: Remarks on the Catholic Missions in China Exhibit for ASPAC 2012,” The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) Annual Conference, Gonzaga University, 15 June 2012

·  Lecture, “The Lives, Deaths, and Legacies of Francis Clet, CM, and John Perboyre, CM,” DeAndreis-Rosati Memorial Archives Lecture 2012, DePaul University, 16 May 2012

·  Lecture, “Mandarins, Missionaries, and Christian Resistance in China,” Year of China Scholarly Lecture Series, University of Kentucky, 1 March 2012

·  Paper, “Franciscan Women and the Ecclesia-Militans in Late Imperial China,” American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 7 January 2012

·  Lecture, “The History of Ming-Qing Sino-Western Relations: The Situation and Methods of Archival Research In and Out of China Using Missionary Collections (Taiyuan),” Cultural Encounters in the Central Plain Region of China, Sponsored by the USF Ricci Institute and Henan University, Kaifeng, China, 19-23 October 2011

·  Paper, “Jesuit Inventions of a New Confucianism,” Early China Roundtable, International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS)/Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 2 April 2011

·  Paper, “Remapping Antiquity: China and the Foreign Figurists,” International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS)/Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 1 April 2011

·  Lecture, “Shanghai Catholic Youth and Resistance in China, 1949-1977,” William L. Davis, SJ, Lecture 2010, Gonzaga University, 10 November 2010

·  Paper, “Conversion by the Book: Giulio Aleni, SJ, and Jesuit Print Culture in Late-Imperial China,” Legacies of the Book: Early Missionary Printing in Asia and the Americas Scholarly Symposium, University of San Francisco, 25 September 2010

·  Scholarly Roundtable, “Christianity and Religious Policy in Modern China,” American Historical Association (Pacific Coast Branch), Santa Clara University, 14 August 2010.

·  Lecture, “Conflict and Accommodation: Matteo Ricci’s Approach in China,” Matthias Lu Memorial Lecture, Berkeley, CA, 8 May 2010

·  Lecture, “China’s ‘Great Unity’: U.S.-China Relations on the New Global Horizon,” Great Decisions Lecture Series, Whitworth University, 22 April 2010

·  Lecture, “Mandarins and Martyrs of Shanxi in Late-Imperial China,” Matteo Ricci Lecture Series, Whitworth and Gonzaga Universities, 19 February 2010

·  Panel Organizer, “Jesuit Book Culture in Late Imperial China,” Discussant: Cynthia Brokaw, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 27 March 2009

·  Paper, “Motives and Methods of Jesuit Book Production in Late Imperial China,” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 27 March 2009

·  Lecture, “Resistance and Accommodation: The Catholic Church in Post-Mao China,” Princeton University, 9 March 2009

·  Lecture, “Early Modern China and the West: A Historical Sketch of Cultural Representation,” McMaster University, 19 November 2008

·  Paper, “China and the Church Militant: Vatican Secret Archive Texts on the Conversion of China,” Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies (SECAAS) Annual Meeting, Hilton Head, SC, 20 January 2008

·  Paper, “China, Children, and the New Catechism: Jesuit Adaptation of Ertongwenxue,” American Oriental Society Western Branch 2007 Annual Meeting, Irvine, CA, 14 October 2007

·  Paper, “Confucius Said What? Baobian and the Voice of Judgment in the Hanshu,” American Oriental Society (AOS) 217th Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 16 March 2007

·  Lecture, “Beating Devils and Burning Their Books: Chinese Images of Foreign Missionaries During the Late 19th Century,” (Mis)Interpretations East West: Representations of China, Japan, and the West, University of Alabama, 15 February 2007

·  Paper, “Jus Primae Noctis in the Middle Kingdom: A Critical Account of Chinese Accusations of Rape Against Martyr Saint, Alberic Crescitelli (Guo Xide),” Alabama Association of Historians (AAH) Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, AL, 2 February 2007

·  Paper, “Baptism, Rape, and Other Misprisions: A Critical Look at Chinese Sources on Guo Xide (Alberico Crescitelli),” Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies (SECAAS) Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, 12 January 2007

·  Keynote Address (Phi Beta Kappa), “Finding Our ‘Circle of Light’: The Goal of a Liberal Arts Education,” University of Alabama, 14 April 2006

·  Paper, “Authors and ‘Authors’: Evolving Accounts of Who Wrote the History of the Han,” American Oriental Society (AOS) 216th Meeting, Seattle, WA, 19 March 2006

·  Paper, “History or Hermeneutic: A Critical Analysis of the Early Impulse the Create a ‘Chinese’ History,” Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies (SECAAS) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 22 January 2006

·  Lecture, “To See Your Nature is to Become a Buddha: Soteriology in the Chan Tradition,” Nazareth College, 14 February 2005

·  Paper, “The ‘Unfilial’ Son: Confucian Reactions to the Image of Crucifixion in Imperial China,” American Historical Association (AHA)/American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA), Seattle, WA, 6-9 January 2005

·  Lecture, “A View from the Orchid Terrace: Ban Gu’s Hanshu and the Construction of a Chinese Worldview,” Münster University, Institut für Sinologie und Ostasienkunde, Münster, Germany, 15 December 2004

·  Paper, “When (and) Did Ban Gu Write the Hanshu?” American Oriental Society Western Branch 2004 Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, 15-16 October 2004

·  Paper, “Han Historiography: ‘Teaching’ the ‘Truth’ in Ancient China,” The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) Annual Conference, University of Oregon, 18 June 2004

·  Paper, “Statesmen, Censors, and Consorts: Ban Gu’s Family History in the Hanshu,” American Oriental Society (AOS) 214th Meeting, San Diego, CA, 13 March 2004

·  Paper, “The Voice of Confucius: Ban Gu’s Use of the Lunyu in Historical Judgment,” Symposium on the Varied Portraits of Confucius, Reed College, 1 November 2003

·  Paper, “Chasing Deer: Seizing Political Power in Ancient China,” Oregon Consortium for Asian Studies Conference, Portland, OR, 22 February 2003

·  Paper, “Historian of the Orchid Terrace: Ban Gu’s Polemic for a New Han Intellectualism,” The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) Annual Conference, Western Washington University, 22 June 2002

·  Lecture, “Strategies of Translation: Faithful Rendering of Chinese Classical Literature into English,” Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation (GITI), National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, 11 April 2002

·  Paper, “New Voices in Sinology,” Fulbright China Research Forum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 26-29 March 2002

·  Paper, “The Benevolent Rule of an Evil Natured King: Xunzi’s Paradigm of Authority and Polity,” The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) Annual Conference, University of Oregon, 16 June 2000

·  Paper, “The Burning Lantern: Medical Allegory in the Novel Jinpingmei,” The Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) Annual Conference, University of Oregon, 16 June 2000

·  Paper, “The Passionate Heart: A Chinese Medical Perspective of Allegory in the Novel Hongloumeng,” Asia in Focus Conference, University of Oregon, 27 February 1999

·  Paper, “The Right to Protest: Justifications of the Founding of the Yihequan During the Late Qing,” Asia in Focus Conference, Lewis and Clark College, 15 November 1997

Institutional Service (Post-2011)

·  Vice-President of the Faculty (2022-present)

·  Chair, Department of History (2018-present)

·  Director, Whitworth in Oxford Program, Oxford, UK (2023-present)

·  Director, Study in Rome Program, Rome, Italy (2015-present)

·  Director, Asian Studies Program (2011-present)

·  Director, Study in China Program, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China (2011-present)

·  Curator and Researcher, “The Book of Changes (Yijing 易經): Artists’ Book Exhibit,” organized and sponsored by the Harriet Cheney Cowles Memorial Library and the Dale E. Soden Archives and Special Collections, Whitworth University (August 2023-January 2024)

·  Committee Member, Hugh Johnston Interdisciplinary Research Grant Selection Committee (2020-2021)

·  Committee Member, Whitworth Graduate Studies Committee (2018-2021)

·  Chair, Department of History Modern-American History Faculty Position Search Committee (2020-2021)

·  Co-Chair, Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program (2011-2020).

·  Curator and Researcher, “People of the Book: Christian Worship in Codex and Print” rare book and print exhibit, organized and sponsored by the Harriet Cheney Cowles Memorial Library and the Whitworth Department of History, Whitworth University (August 2019-January 2020)

·  Faculty Presenter on Whitworth study abroad programs, Board of Trustees (Spring 2018)

·  Chair, Department of History Early-American History Faculty Position Search Committee (2017-2018)

·  Committee Member, School of Business Accounting Faculty Position Search Committee (2017-2018)

·  Panelist/Presenter, “Faith and Scholarship,” VCP Workshop (Summer 2018)

·  Director/Instructor, Whitworth Jan-Term Program in China, Whitworth University (2018)

·  Faculty Speaker and Discussion Group Leader, MacMillan Hall Student Prime Time (dorm outreach) (2016-2017)

·  Provost’s Selection Committee for the Amy Ryan Professorship (2016-2017)

·  Committee Member, Dean’s Committee for Post-Tenure Faculty Review, College of Arts and Sciences (2016-2017)

·  Curator and Researcher, “Whitworth’s Book Treasures: Rare Book Exhibit of Treasures from Whitworth’s Special Collections,” organized and sponsored by the Harriet Cheney Cowles Memorial Library and the Edward B. Lindaman Endowed Chair, Special Collections, Whitworth University (September 2017-January 2018)

·  Organizer and Lecturer, “China’s Christianity: Constructing a Christian Identity - From Mission to Indigenous Church Symposium,” Whitworth University; participants included Robert E. Carbonneau, CP, Amanda C. R. Clark, Lydia Gerber, Joseph W. Ho, Jean-Paul Wiest, and Wu Xiaoxin (November 2015)

·  Faculty Speaker and Discussion Group Leader, “Honors Colloquium” for university recruitment (2016)

·  Director/Instructor, Whitworth May-Term Program in Rome, Whitworth University (2015)

·  Committee Member, Writing Across the Curriculum Taskforce (2013-2014)

·  Director, SIF Research in China Internship, Whitworth University (2013-2014)

·  Faculty Advisor, Whitworth Catholic Students Fellowship, Whitworth University (2011-2017)

·  Organizer, Lecturer, and Contributor, “Matteo Ricci Lecture Series” and Publication Project, Whitworth University and Gonzaga University; participants included Thomas Reilly, Paul Mariani, SJ, Ignatius Ohno, SJ, Michael Maher, SJ, Eric Cunningham, and Anthony E. Clark (2010-2012)

·  Chair, Department of History Latin-America History Faculty Position Search Committee (2010-2011)

Service to Guild (Post-2011)

·  Interviewee and Scholarly Consultant for News Media Sources:

o   British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

o   National Public Radio (NPR)

o   New York Times

o   International Herald Tribune

o   Washington Post

o   Reuters News Service

o   Wall Street Journal

o   Globe and Mail

o   World is One News

o   Catholic World Report (CWR)

o   Catholic News Asia (UCAN)

o   Catholic Herald (London)

·  Manuscript Reviewer of Monographs, Edited Volumes, and Journal Articles:

o   Oxford University Press

o   Brill Press

o   Cambridge University Press

o   Leuven University Press

o   University of Washington Press

o   Journal of Asian Studies

o   Harvard Journal of Asian Studies

o   Late Imperial China

o   Journal of Jesuit Studies

o   China Review International

o   Journal of Chinese Religions

o   The Chinese Historical Review

o   Catholic Historical Review

o   American Historical Review

·  Advisory Board, “Modern Catholicisms” book series. Editors: Ulrich L. Lehner and Carolina Armenteros (Brill, 2016-present)

·  Doctoral Research Mentor, New College, University of Edinburgh (2021)

·  Organizer and Lecturer, “Sino-Christian Architecture: Scholars Respond to Adelbert Gresnigt, OSB (1877-1956), International Symposium,” Whitworth University Simpson-Duvall Lecture Series (19-21 April 2021)

·  Speaker/Commentator, “100 Days of Dante Project” Video Series, Baylor University Honor’s College, Divina Commedia, Inferno Canto 13 and Purgatory Canto 4 (2021)

·  Doctoral Dissertation Committee, John Lindblom, University of Notre Dame (2016-2021)

·  Director, China Christianity Studies Group (CCSG), Affiliate Scholarly Society with the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) (2016-2020)

·  Scholarly Advisor for the television production of The China Mission: The Story of Irish Missionaries in China Between 1920 and 1954, Esras Films for TGA (Dublin, Ireland), 2017

·  Director Emeritus, U.S. Catholic China Association (USCCA, 2019-present)

·  Board Member, U.S. Catholic China Association (USCCA, 2015-2017)

·  Director of the Archives, Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane (2010-2016)

·  Advisory Board, “Historical Legacies of Christianity in East Asia” scholarly project, sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Ricci Institute, University of San Francisco (2016-present)

·  Editorial Board, Whitworth University Pines Press, Whitworth University (2023-present)

·  Editorial Board, “Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia” book series. Sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Ricci Institute, University of San Francisco (Brill, 2016-present)

·  Doctoral Dissertation Committee, Joseph Cheney, University of Alabama (2011-2018)

·  Board Member, Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC, 2009-2012)

·  Principal Curator and Researcher, “Late Qing Missions Photograph and Document Exhibit,” organized and sponsored for the Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) annual meeting, Foley Rare Books Room, Gonzaga University (June-August 2012)

Teaching (Selected Courses)

·  HI 102 History of the (Pacific) Asian World

·  HI 301 Oxford and the Christian Imagination: J. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis

·  HI 250 History of Buddhism: Theory and Praxis on the Historical Landscape

·  HI 300w Christianity in Asia: Sino-Western Comparative History

·  HI 304 Political and Cultural History of Beijing

·  HI 305w Cultural Odyssey of China

·  HI 307w: History of Chinese Thought and Literature

·  HI 345 Cultural History of China and Japan

·  HI 346: History of Modern China and East Asia

·  HI 396/400 Chinese Medicine: The Body as Landscape in Belief and Daoist History

·  HI 396 History of Chinese Film

·  HI 498w Ideas in History: Critical Theory and Trends in Historiography

Scholarly Affiliations

·  American Academy of Religions (AAR)

·  American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA)

·  American Historical Association (AHA)

·  American Oriental Society (AOS)

·  Association for Asian Studies (AAS)

·  Beijing International Society (BIS)

·  China Christianity Studies Group (CCSG)

·  Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS)

·  Society for Ming Studies (SMS)

·  Society for Qing Studies (SQS)

·  U.S. Catholic China Association (USCCA)

·  Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)

·  Marion Dean Ross Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (MDR-SAH)

Scholarly References

·  M. Antoni J. Ucerler, SJ, D.Phil., Oxon., Japanese History (ucerler@bc.edu)

·  Stephen Durrant, Early China (sdurrant@uoregon.edu)

·  Lionel Jensen, Late Imperial/Modern Chinese Culture (ljensen@nd.edu)

·  Stephen R. Platt, Late Imperial/Modern China (platt@history.umass.edu)

·  Michael Nylan, Early China (mnylan@berkeley.edu)

·  Joseph Tse-hei Lee, Late Imperial/Modern China (jlee@pace.edu)

·  Steven Shankman, Western Classical Studies (shankman@uoregon.edu)

·  Wendy Larson, Modern China (wlarson@uoregon.edu)

·  Maram Epstein, Late Imperial China (maram@uoregon.edu)

·  Wu Xiaoxin, Chinese Christianity and Archives (xiaoxin.wu.2@bc.edu)

·  Ulrich L. Lehner, Early Modern Global Christianity (ulehner1@nd.edu)

·  Cindy Yik-yi Chu, Christianity in China (cindychu@hkbu.edu.hk)