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Office: Greenville 304 Phone: 724-589-2248 Email: dbuck@thiel.edu Office Hours: MWF 10-11; T 8:30-9:30; TH 11-12; by appointment Education West Virginia University, Ph.D., December 2002 Fields: US Diplomatic; Twentieth Century US Social; East Asia; Latin America Dissertation Title: “A Helping Hand?: The United States and the ‘Questions of the Far East’ at the Washington Conference, 1921-22.” Advisor: Dr. Jack Hammersmith Slippery Rock University, M.A., History, December 1995 Fields: Chinese History; US History University of Dayton, B.A., American Studies, December 1992 Teaching Experience Thiel College, Department of History Associate Professor (2008-Present) Assistant Professor (2005-2008) Genesee Community College, Division of Social Sciences Instructor (2004-05) West Virginia University, Department of History Instructor (Fall 2001; 2002-04) Graduate Instructor (1996-2000) Fairmont State College, School of Social Sciences Adjunct Instructor (Spring 2002) Visiting Full-time Instructor (2000-2001) West Virginia University, Department of Humanities Instructor (Fall 2002) Courses Taught HIST 101: United States History until 1877 HIST 102: United States History since 1877 HIST 180: Modern World History HIST 260: East Asian History HIST 290: Introduction to Historical Methods HIST 309: Recent American History HIST 315: United States Diplomatic History HIST 361: Japanese History: Tokugawa to Present HIST 370: Latin America: Culture, Conquest, & Colonization HIST 371: Latin America: Reform and Revolution HIST 461: History of Modern China INDS 210: Science and OurGlobal Heritage I INDS 220: Science and Our Global Heritage II Current Research Interests My main research focus is on human rights and development in the Asia and Latin America. I am also exploring issues surrounding genocide in Asia and Latin America. In addition, I am revising my research from my dissertation on US-Chinese-Japanese relations in the early twentieth century. Selected Publications Book Reviews Intelligence and Human Rights in the Era of Global Terrorism, edited by Steve Tsang, In H-Genocide, forthcoming. Why We Fought: America’s Wars in Film and History, edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor, In Southwest Journal of Cultures, forthcoming. The Chinese Cultural Revolution: A History, Paul Clark, In Canadian Journal of History, forthcoming. The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945, edited by Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, In The Maryland Historian, Series II, Volume I, No.1, Fall/Winter 2001. Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan’s Democratization by John W. Garver, In China Information: A Quarterly Journal on Contemporary China Studies, Volume XIV, Number 2, 2000. Mexico Between Hitler and Roosevelt: Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lazaro Cardenas by Friedrich E. Schuler, In H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews, June 2000. Crisis and Commitment: United States Policy toward Taiwan, 1950-1955, by Robert Accinelli, In H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, December 1999. Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism by Louise Young, In History Reviews On-Line, Volume 5, Number 1, Summer / Fall 1998. Dilemma and Decision: An Organizational Perspective on American China Policy Making, by Hao Yufan, In China Information: A Quarterly Journal on Contemporary China Studies. Volume XIII, Number 1, Summer 1998. Encyclopedia Entries “K1C2” Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Edited by Spencer Tucker. Denver: ABC-Clio Press, (2000): 299. “Manchuria.” Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Edited by Spencer Tucker. Denver: ABC-Clio Press, (2000):411. “Neutralization of Taiwan.” Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Edited by Spencer Tucker. Denver: ABC-Clio Press, (2000): 636-37. Selected Presentations “Science and Our Global Heritage: Teaching Global Issues through China and India.” Asian Studies Development Program National Conference, 2008. “The History of Food Safety Legislation in the United States,” University of Dayton, 2004. “Opening the Door?: Charles Evans Hughes and the Failure at Washington.” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference, 2003. Commentator, “Exotic and Dangerous: American Perceptions of Asiatics.” The Fourth Annual West Virginia University Senator Rush D. Holt History Conference, West Viginia University, October 2000. “Socialists and Communists In Every Corner: Reactions in the United States and Japan to the 1960 Security Treaty,” Midwest Conference on Asian History and Culture, Ohio State University, May 2000. “Lending a Hand?: American Views of China, Extraterritoriality, and the Washington Conference,” Eugene D. Levy Memorial History Graduate Student Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, April 2000. Professional Organizations American Historical Association Association of Asian Studies Association of Third World Studies Society of Historians for American Foreign Relations Mid-Atlantic Region / Association for Asian Studies |
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