Robert J. Culp
Professor of History and Asian Studies
Primary Academic Program: Historical Studies
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, Experimental Humanities, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Global and International Studies
Biography:
Rob Culp is the author of The Power of Print in Modern China: Intellectuals and Industrial Publishing from the End of Empire to Maoist State Socialism (Columbia University Press, 2019); Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in Southeastern China, 1912–1940 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007); and numerous book chapters and articles. He was also coeditor of Knowledge Acts in Modern China: Ideas, Institutions, and Identities (UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies Publications, 2016) and The Politics of Historical Production in Late Qing and Republican China (Brill, 2007). He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Spencer Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Committee for Scholarly Communication with China, American Philosophical Society, and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. His current research focuses on book distribution and knowledge production as well as youth culture in 20th-century China.BA, Swarthmore College; MA, University of Michigan; MA, PhD, Cornell University. At Bard since 1999.
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Location: Fairbairn