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1. Summary

• Dept of History

• University of North Carolina, Greensboro

• Email: jamie_anderson@uncg.edu

• University of Washington, Seattle, WA. September 1992–June 1999.

• Received a Ph.D. degree from the Department of History. Fields of study included: Late Imperial China, Modern China, Pre-modern Southeast Asia, and High Medieval Europe.

• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. September 1991–August 1992.

• Attended classes in the graduate history program of NTU as a recipient of the UW–Taida exchange fellowship. Collected materials for thesis research and consulted with Song specialists at the National Central Library and the Academia Sinica.

• University of Washington, Seattle, WA. September 1989–August 1991.

• Received MA degree from the Department of History in the fields of Modern China and Late Imperial China.

• Johns Hopkins–Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, Nanjing, China, PRC. September 1988–June 1989.

• Studied Chinese history, political thought, and economic reform.

• Harvard College, Cambridge, MA. Graduated June 1987, BA cum laude.

• Studied in the department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Undergraduate curriculum included Chinese language classes and yearlong tutorials on various aspects of Chinese history and culture.

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. August 2006–present. Served as Department Head from 2015–2019 and as Director of Undergraduate Studies from 2020–2022, 2025–2026.

Monographs and Edited Volumes

• The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade Security and State Formation. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024.

• Co-edited with John Whitmore, China's Encounters on the South and Southwest: Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

• Co-edited with Nola Cooke and Li Tana, The Tongking Gulf through History: Soundings in Time and Space. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Singapore: ISEAS Reprint, 2013.

• The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao: Loyalty and Identity along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.

Textbooks

Co-authored with Mary L. Hanneman, Yi Li and Wayne Patterson, A History of Modern East Asia. San Diego: Cognella Academic Publishers, 2018.

Journal Articles

• “Trade Relationships between the Đại Việt Kingdom and the Song Empire in the Long Twelfth Century,” Crossroads – Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World. Vol. 19 (2020): 233–256.

• “Commissioner Li and Prefect Huang/Hoàng: Sino-Vietnamese Frontier Trade Networks and Political Alliances Through the late Southern Song,” Asia Major Vol. 27, No. 2 (Fall 2014): 29–51.

• “Distinguishing between China and Vietnam: three relational equilibriums in Sino-Vietnamese Relations,” Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 13, Issue 2 (May–August 2013): 259–280.

• “China's Southwestern Silk Road in World History,” World History Connected, March 2009. http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/6.1/anderson.html

• “Man of Prowess or Errant Vassal: Nùng Tôn Phúc's 11th century Bid for Autonomy along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier,” Southeast Review of Asian Studies 22 (2002): 63–90.

• “Monumental Pride: Sino-Vietnamese Cross-border Commemorations of Nung Tri Cao,” Thai-Yunnan Project Bulletin 1 (July 2001): 1–2.

Multi-authored Articles

• Co-authored with Megan Bryson, Catherine Churchman and Andrew Chittick. In Erica Brindley (ed.), “A&Q: Premodern History and the Frontiers of the South China Sea,” Verge: Studies in Global Asia, Issue 4.1 (Spring 2018).

• Co-authored with John K. Whitmore. “The Dong World: A Proposal for Analyzing the Highlands Between the Yangzi Valley and the Southeast Asian Lowlands.” Asian Highlands Perspectives 44: 8–71 (Spring 2017).

• Wang, Y. C., & Anderson, J. A. (2014). Differentiating Ideals versus Practices in the Discussion of Confucian Influences on Chinese Parent–Child Relationships. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 6(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.9707/2307-0919.1127

Book Chapters

• “Life along the Ancient Road of the One Hundred Yue,” in Ellen Cong Zhang (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Song China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2026.

• “Between Tribute and Trade: Sino-Vietnamese Maritime Cultural Exchange, ca. 1000–1800,” in Sarah Ward and Tânia Manuel Casimiro (eds.), From China to the World: Maritime Waves of Cultural Convergence. Leiden: Brill, 2025 (forthcoming).

• “The Outer Limits of Steppe Power: Mongol Military Excursions in Southeast Asia,” in Timothy May and Michael Hope (eds.), The Mongol World. New York: Routledge, 2022.

• “Commerce and Economy in Southeast Asia within the Sinosphere (Laos and Vietnam),” in Scott C. Levi (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian Commercial History, 2022.

• “Hồ Quý Ly's Rule and the Ming Invasion,” in David C. Kang and Stephan Haggard (eds.), East Asia in the World: Twelve Events That Shaped the Modern International Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

• “Pearls and Power: Chōla's Tribute Mission to the Northern Song Court within the Maritime Silk Road Trade Network,” in Jeffrey D. Lerner and Yaohua Shi (eds.), Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives. Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2020.

• “An American Perspective on Vietnam's Sinology,” in Chih-yu Shih, Prapin Manomaivibool, and Reena Marwah (eds.), China Studies in South and Southeast Asia: Between Pro-China and Objectivism. Singapore: World Scientific, 2018.

• “Creating a Border between China and Vietnam,” in Susan Walcott and Corey White (eds.), Corridor of Interconnections: Eurasia from the South China to the Caspian Sea. New York: Routledge Press, 2013.

• “'Treacherous Factions': Shifting Frontier Alliances in the Breakdown of Sino-Vietnamese Relations on the Eve of the 1075 Border War,” in Don Wyatt (ed.), Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period. Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2008.

• Entries (thirty-five) on Song, Yuan and Ming Neo-Confucian philosophers and scholarly academies for Yao Xinzhong, The Encyclopedia of Confucianism. London: RoutledgeCurzon Press, 2003.

Reviews

• C. Patterson Giersch. Corporate Conquests: Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2020. H-Asia, 2021.

• Bradley Camp Davis. Imperial Bandits: Cultures of Violence in the China-Vietnam Borderlands (University of Washington Press, 2017) for The Journal of Chinese Military History, 2021.

• Christian C. Lentz. Contested Territory: Điện Biên Phủ and the Making of Northwest Vietnam. Yale Agrarian Studies Series (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019). The Journal of Asian Studies 79, no. 2 (May 2020): 538–540.

• Kathlene Baldanza. Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Spring 2018): 120–123.

• Erica Fox Brindley. Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE–50 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Journal of Chinese History, Vol. 1, no. 2 (2017): 371–373.

• Charles Holcombe. A History of East Asia: From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. China Review International, Vol. 18, no. 2 (2011): 190–194.

• Liu, Xinru. The Silk Road in World History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Education About Asia, Vol. 16, no. 2 (Fall 2011).

• Asia for Educators (AFE) Web site, Columbia University, in Education About Asia, 15, no. 2 (Fall 2010).

• Brantly Womack. China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Journal of Vietnamese Studies 4, no. 3 (Fall 2009).

• Charles Holcombe. The Genesis of East Asia: 221 B.C.–A.D. 907. (Asian Interactions and Comparisons.) Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, with the Association for Asian Studies, 2001. Education About Asia, 11, no. 2 (Fall 2006).

• O.W. Wolters. History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives. 2nd Revised Edition. Ithaca: Southeast Asian Program Publications, Cornell University, 1999. The Journal of Asian Studies 61, no. 2 (May 2002): 800–802.

• “The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade Security and State Formation,” keynote address at UNC-Chapel Hill for the 2025 Asia Scholar Network Conference and Bringing Southeast Asia Home Workshop, April 12, 2025.

• “Spices from 'All Under Heaven': Imperial China's Relations with Southeast Asian Kingdoms along the Maritime Silk Road,” Wake Forest University, March 14, 2018.

• “Việt Nam and the Dong World: Overlapping Sino-Vietnamese Alliances along the Southwest Silk Road in China's Song Dynasty (960–1279),” UNC-CH Southeast Asian Approaches Lecture Series, FedEx Global Education Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 28, 2015.

• “Western Scholarship on Patterns of Chinese Ethnic Integration (西方學術與中國族群共融),” Department of History, Culture and Tourism Management, Zunyi Normal College, Guizhou, PRC, July 24, 2015.

• “Silk and Spices from All Under Heaven: Imperial China's Tributary Relations with Kingdoms along the Silk Roads,” North Carolina A&T State University Honors Program Lecture Series, November 18, 2010.

• “Crisis and Renewal: Comparing the Đại Việt and the Dali Kingdoms on the eve of the Mongol Invasion,” Columbia University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Premodern China Lecture Series, November 4, 2010.

• “Crisis and Renewal: Comparing the Đại Việt and the Dali Kingdoms on the eve of the Mongol Invasion,” Cornell University SEAP Brown Bag Lecture Series, co-sponsored with East Asia Program, October 14, 2010.

• “Emperors, Maharajas and Great Kings: Tang-Nanzhao Relations Along the Southern Silk Road,” for the Daming Palace and the Tang Dynasty: National and International Perspectives conference, sponsored by Oxford Archaeology, the University of Oxford and the Daming Palace National Heritage Park (Xian, PRC), September 19, 2010.

• “The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao: 11th Century Rebellion and Response Along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier,” public talk in the John W. Kluge Center for International Studies at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, May 2004.

• “Horses for Salt: Life along the Ancient Road of the One Hundred Yue,” presented at the 2025 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, March 15, 2025.

• “Although Customs May Differ, (the Kingdom's) History Should be Told”: Lê Tắc's Vision of “Homeland” in the An Nam Chí Lược, presented at the 2024 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, March 14, 2024.

• “The Poetry of Diplomacy: 10th-Century Assertions of Vietnamese Autonomy in a Sinitic Cultural Discourse,” presented for the session “New Sources for the History and Historiography of Pre-Modern and Early Modern Southeast Asian History” for the 8th AAS-in-Asia conference, Kyungpook National University (KNU), Daegu, Korea, June 24–27, 2023.

• “Beyond the Battle for Vị Long: Đại Cồ Việt–Dali–Song Engagement in the Dong World within a World Historical Perspective,” presented (via Zoom) at the conference The Research of the History of Vietnam from the Perspective of Global History, sponsored by College of Ethnology and Sociology, Center of Ethnic Studies in Southern China and Southeast Asia and the Center of Guangxi Frontier Research, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Nanning, PRC, October 22–24, 2021.

• “Beyond the Battle for Vị Long: Đại Cồ Việt–Dali–Song Engagement in the Dong World within a World Historical Perspective,” presented (via Zoom) at the workshop “Borderlands as 'Third Space': Hybrid Amorphous Borders and the Imagination of Space in Asia,” Duke University, February 20–21, 2021.

• “Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands in the Margins,” presented (via Zoom) at the 2021 Southeast Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, January 15–17, 2021.

• “The Battle for Vị Long Prefecture: the Dali Kingdom in the Dong World,” presented at the John K. Whitmore Conference, Yale University Council on Southeast Asia Studies (CSEAS), October 16–17, 2020.

• “Trade Relations between the Đại Việt Kingdom and the Song Empire in the long 12th Century,” presented at the Workshop on Contact Zones and Colonialism in China's South: 221 BCE–1700 CE, Penn State University, May 10–11, 2019.

• “The Radical Rule of Hồ Quý Ly and the Ming Invasion of Vietnam,” presented at the 2018 Asia Scholar Network Conference, FedEx Global Education Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, December 2018.

• “Hồ Quý Ly's Rule and the Ming Invasion,” presented at the Ten Events from East Asian History that Every IR Scholar Should Know Workshop, University of South Carolina, May 14–15, 2018.

• “Pearls and Power: Peng Cheng's Description of Chola's Tribute Mission at the Northern Song Court,” presented at the Second Conference on Middle Period Chinese Humanities, Leiden University, September 14–17, 2017.

• “Protocol and Compassion: local administration in the border areas of the 11th century Sino-Vietnamese Frontier,” presented at the 2016 Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, April 1, 2016.

• “Protocol and Compassion: local administration in the border areas of the 11th century Sino-Vietnamese Frontier” (禮儀與慈悲：11世紀的中越邊境地區的地方政行政), at the Fifth Annual International Symposium on the Chinese Chieftain System and Culture, Zunyi, PRC, July 26–28, 2015.

• “The Tale of Prefect Wu: Coming to Terms with Local Power along the Southern Silk Road in the Late Song Period,” at the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Middle Period China, 800–1400, Harvard University, June 5–7, 2014.

• “Commissioner Li and Prefect Huang/Hoàng: Sino-Vietnamese Frontier Trade Networks and Political Alliances Through the late Southern Song,” for the conference “Maritime Frontiers in Asia: Indigenous Communities and State Control in South China and Southeast Asia, 2000 BCE – 1800 CE.” Pennsylvania State University, April 12–13, 2013.

• “'Controlling and soothing the unrefined barbarians is equal to spreading the grace of Heaven': Early Song Imperial Titles and China's Southern Frontier,” for the World History Association 2011 Beijing Conference, Beijing, PRC, July 9, 2011.

• “Pausing at Stone Gate Pass: Exploring Traces of Imperial Expansion and Local Resistance along a Spur of the Southwestern Silk Road,” presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 3, 2011.

• “Creating a Border between China and Vietnam,” for the workshop “Was there an historical East Asian international system? Impact, meaning, and conceptualization.” Organized by David Kang and Amitav Acharya. Sponsored by the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California, March 4–5, 2011.

• “Using Han Ways to Rule non-Han Peoples: Sinitic Political Culture in the Frontier Administration of the Dali and Đại Việt Kingdoms,” presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, March 25, 2010.

• “Vassals as Lords: Markets, Migration, and Overlapping Frontiers along the Southwestern Silk Road through the Late Song Dynasty,” presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 27, 2009.

• “'Slipping Through Holes': the 10th-13th Century Sino-Vietnamese Coastal Frontier as a Subaltern Trade Network,” presented at the workshop “'A Mini Mediterranean Sea': Gulf of Tongking through History,” organized by the Australian National University and the Academy of Social Sciences of Guangxi, PRC, March 2008.

• “The Power of Family: the Shifting Status of the Cuan in Yunnan through the Ming,” presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs at Washington University, St. Louis, MO, October 2007.

• “Political Alliances and Trade Networks along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier from the Late Tenth to the Mid-Eleventh Century,” presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 2005.

• “From Tribute to Trade: Examining a Pivotal Period in Middle Period Sino-Vietnamese Relations,” presented in the panel “Commodity Structure of Asian Trade Network (I)” of the 18th IAHA Conference at the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, December 2004.

• “'Bandits from beyond our borders': Political Alliances and Trade Networks along the Late Tenth-Century Sino-Vietnamese Frontier,” presented at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, September 2004.

• “A Scholar's Strange Collection: Peng Cheng's Description of Chola's Tribute Mission at the Northern Song Court,” delivered at the New England Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, September 2003.

• “The Specter of Southern Power: Nung Tri Cao's Insurrection, Court Reaction, and the Legacy of Nanyue/Nam Viet,” presented at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs annual meeting at Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, September 2002.

• “Tempting 'Treacherous Factions:' The Manipulation of Frontier Alliances on the Eve of the 1075 Sino-Vietnamese Border War,” delivered at the AAS Annual Meeting, New York, NY, April 2002.

• “Man of Prowess or Errant Vassal: Nung Ton Phuc's 11th-century Bid for Self-rule along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier,” delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Chattanooga, TN, January 2002.

• “The An Nam Chi Luoc as Common Ground: Le Tac's Private History and its Sino-Vietnamese Audience,” delivered at the AHA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, January 2001.

• “Monumental Pride: Public Commemorations of the Rebel Nung Tri Cao along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier,” delivered at the New England Regional Association for Asian Studies conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, September 2000.

• “The Poetry of Diplomacy: Viet Assertions of Autonomy in a Yue Cultural Discourse,” delivered at the AAS Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 1999.

• “Titles of Authority and Legitimacy in the Kingdoms of Nung Tri Cao (1025–1055): Language in the Creation of Political Space and Ethnic Community,” delivered at the AHA Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, January 9, 1998.

• “Example of Our Ancestors: Historical Impressions of the Northern Sung Official, Wang An-shih, and Concepts of Political Reform during the Ch'ing Dynasty,” delivered at the University of Washington Student Colloquium on Asian Studies, Seattle, WA, April 24, 1993.

• “Frontier Management and Tribute Relations along the Empire's Southern Border: China and Vietnam in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries”

• My project involved a documentary and archaeological study of tribute missions, court ceremonies, and other state rituals associated with the mechanism of Sino-Vietnamese tribute relations. I examined a network of symbols and ritual acts that supported and legitimized the Chinese claim to regional control. Local Vietnamese leaders employed these symbols to perform within the Chinese tribute system in such a way as to establish regional independence while containing Chinese aggression.

• Excellent Chinese language skills, Modern and Classical.

• Fluency in Swedish, reading, writing and speaking.

• Good reading ability in Modern Vietnamese.

• Good reading ability in French.

• Two years of Modern Japanese language training. Fairly strong reading ability.

• Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. August 2006–present.

• Teach, in addition to the courses below: HIS 207: Silk And Spices: History of the Silk Road in China; HIS 511C: Seminar in Historical Research and Writing – The Chinese City in the Twentieth Century; HIS 387: History of the Chinese Frontier; and an online course in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, MLS 610: The Dragon Awakes – Charting the Path of Modern China.

• Assistant Professor, UNC-Greensboro. August 1999–2006.

• Taught HIS 215: Civilizations of Asia; HIS 383: Chinese History to 1800; HIS 216: Modern Asia (Writing Intensive); HIS 384: Modern Transformation of China; and HIS 588: Silks and Spices (an upper-level seminar covering material and cultural exchange along the Silk Road and Spice Trade routes of the pre-modern era). HIS 588-01: East Asian History: Selected Topics: The Wars of Viet Nam. HIS 511C: Seminar in Historical Research and Writing – Popular Protest in Chinese History.

• Instructor, University of Washington. July–August 1998.

• Taught HSTAS 221, an intensive one-month survey of Southeast Asian history.

• Instructor, Seattle Pacific University. March–June 1998.

• Taught HIS 3785, a modern history of China and Japan.

• Instructor, University of Washington – Bothell Campus. September–December 1997.

• Taught BLS 493A: an advanced level course on the history of Sino-Vietnamese relations, and BLS 334: a survey course on Chinese history through 1840.

• Instructor, Tacoma Community College. June–August 1994, June–August 1996.

• Taught HST 211: a survey course on the history of Chinese civilization.

• Taiwan Fellowship (ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs), March 2020–July 2020. Fellowship returned due to coronavirus pandemic travel restrictions.

• Taiwan Fellowship (ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs), July 2011–July 2012. Research conducted at the Institute of History and Philology in Academia Sinica and at the Center for Chinese Studies in the National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Fulbright Scholar Research Fellowship, August 2006–June 2007. Research at the Institute of History in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; the Yunnan Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, Kunming; and the Rare Book Collection of the Beijing Library.

• Luce Fellowship in the John W. Kluge Center for International Studies at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC), February–August 2004. Research in the Asian Reading Room for the book The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao: Loyalty and Identity along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier.

• Luce Fellowship at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (Canberra, ACT), January–September 2001. Research at the ANU and at the Sino-Nom Sinological Institute in Hanoi, Vietnam for the book The Rebel Den of Nung Tri Cao: Loyalty and Identity along the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier.

• UNCG Summer Excellence Research Award, June–July 2000. Research at the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, and at the Sino-Nom Sinological Institute in Hanoi, Vietnam.

• UNCG New Faculty Grant, May–June 2000. Research at the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.

• Title VI Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship, 1998–99. Dissertation research using Chinese, Sino-Vietnamese, and Japanese language materials.

• ACLS/Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Fellowship, January–March 1998. Dissertation research at the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.

• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, December 1996–June 1997. Dissertation research at the Sino-Nom Sinological Institute in Hanoi, Vietnam; the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Nanning, China (Guangxi Autonomous Region); the Rare Book Collection of the Beijing Library; and Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• Invited Smithsonian Journeys Study Leader for a nation-wide tour of Viet Nam on the Smithsonian's Discovering Vietnam program, December 3–18, 2015 and November 30–December 16, 2018.

• Invited Local Speaker at Southwest Virginia Community College for the 9th annual nation-wide web conference “CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections,” organized by the National Committee for US-China Relations (NCUSCR), October 15, 2015.

• Elected Representative of the Southeast Conference (SEC/AAS) to the Council of Conferences (COC) of the Association for Asian Studies (2012–2014).

• Executive Director of the regional consortium Southern Atlantic States Association for Asian and African Studies (SASASAAS), Autumn 2007–Autumn 2010.

• Asian Studies Committee Member, responsible for the successful 2007 Department of Education Title VI Grant to establish an Asian Studies track in the International and Global Studies program at UNCG.

• Active member of the American Historical Association and the Association for Asian Studies.

• Committee Chairperson for Harvard College Alumni/ae Interviewing, responsible for appointing and organizing alumni/ae to interview and recruit prospective candidates from the Triad region for admission to Harvard College, 2007–present.

• Public Speaker, addressing the Kiwanis Club, the UNCG Emeritus Society, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, and the North Carolina Center for International Understanding's China orientation program (Raleigh, NC), as well as various community groups on topics regarding Chinese and Southeast Asian history and current affairs.