Bio of Prof. Dong WANG (DCW, she/her/hers), Ph.D., Ph.D.
A naturalized U.S. citizen since 2006 and permanent German resident since 2012, Dong WANG (DW) is a long-trained historian, well-established academic, professor, and author known for her original, prolific, deep and wide, quality research in seven different languages, AND for her fair and sustained judgment, based on all possible sources, be it primary or/and secondary evidence. She is also a designer, manager, artist, and avid practitioner of swimming, kayaking, canoeing, sailing, horticulture, badminton/tennis, classical music, oil, watercolor painting, drawing, as well as Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and British cuisines.
Where is home? I
Born in 1967 to strict teacher parents, who were deprived of rights to higher education due to their "default" class status (i.e., landholding and/or skilled aristocrats and medical doctor), carried from the Republic of China (1912-present), Dr. Wang grew up in Loyang/Luoyang, the ancient capital, Honan/Henan Province (meaning "the South Bank of the River" on the Central Plain). At the age of five/six, Dr. Wang was sent to the elementary school by her orphaned mom---who had to work full time---because the young Dr. Wang loved wandering off to the nature, her only childhood toy. That is why she was always the youngest pupil/under-/graduate student in her own class.
Where is home? II
In August 1993, upon obtaining her first Ph.D. from the Institute of Modern History at CASS in Peking, she departed for Kansas City, MO under the aegis of the prestigious, extremely competitive Pew Charitable Trusts fellowship to pursue her second Ph.D. in history, Asian studies, U.S. diplomatic and military history at the University of Kansas where the Pew grant was obtained/administered by her late mentor, Dr. Daniel H. Bays. Her career calling as a professional historian and academic writer in English came in 2001 while she was working in Hong Kong as a main founder of the History Department at Lingnan University Hong Kong and when she accepted the job offer from Gordon College on the North Shore of Boston, MA, to come back to the United States of America---her adopted homeland. Thus, she asked whether one's birthplace should be equated to one's "Die Heimat"/home anymore. See her reflection on this here.
Career
Dr. Dong WANG's career trajectory is nothing but conventional during the post-World War II era, somehow perhaps nearing that of the ideal pre-modern and early modern European humanists who pursued independent thinking for the sake of the common good within their capacities in a holistic manner. More to come!
Honorary Academic and Civic Service I
Since 1990 especially the 2000s when she, in Hong Kong, took the job offer from Gordon College in Wenham, MA, Dr. Wang has been serving academia on varied occasions in many different roles, mostly for free, as a reviewer, consultant, and referee for over 40 academic organizations, libraries, information systems, universities, colleges, funding agencies, publishers, and journals BELOW:
HONORARY AND CIVIC SERVICE II
Continuing from Above:
Including the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (Washington, D.C.); the Association for Asian Studies; Columbia University Press; The Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History (Taipei, Academia Sinica 中研院近史所《近代史集刊》); Bloomsbury; Brill; China: An International Journal (Australia); China Information; China Quarterly; Diplomatic History (Oxford UP); Hong Kong University Press; International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (Brazil); International History Review (SSCI and A&HCI, Canada and Britain); International Journal of Military History and Historiography (UK); International Relations (UK); The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs (Rome, Italy); The Journal of Contemporary China; The Historian (A&HCI, US); The Journal of American-East Asian Relations; The Journal of Cold War Studies (Harvard University); Leiden University Press; Lexington Books; Literature and History (UK); Norton; Pacific Affairs; Pacific Historical Review (U.S.A.); Routledge; Rowman & Littlefield; Sage Open; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Social Sciences and Missions (Britain & The Netherlands); Twentieth-Century China; US National Endowment of Humanities.