杰夫 Kyong-McClain, Ph.D.

• Illinois Program for 研究 in the Humanities Graduate Student Fellow, 2008-09
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation 研究 Abroad, 2006-07

杰夫 Kyong-McClain is a historian of modern East Asia, whose research to date has focused on Sino-American educational exchange, and the history of higher education and social scientific academic disciplines in 中国. In terms of teaching, he most enjoys offering classes on modern 中国 and modern Korea. After obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 2009, he taught for nine years in the History Department of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock before moving to the University of Idaho in 2018. At the U of I, in addition to his work in the History Department, he also serves as Director of the 哈比卜 Institute for Asian Studies. He was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota and lived for three years in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, 中国.

• Modern 中国
• Modern Korea
• Christianity in 中国
• History of higher education
• History of anthropology

• From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes: Historical Reflections on Sino-American Cultural Exchange, co-edited with Joseph Tse-Hei Lee (Routledge, 2023).
  
• Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization, co-edited with Russell Meeuf and Jing Jing Chang (Hong Kong University Press, 2022).
• Barbarian Caves or Han Tombs? Republican-Era Archaeology and the Reassertion of Han Presence in Ancient Sichuan, Twentieth-Century 中国 35, no. 2 (2010): 4-24.