Alan Baumler
Curriculum vitae
216 Keith Hall
History Department
baumler@iup.edu
-Teaching Experience
Associate Professor of
History,
2005-present
Assistant Professor of
History,
2000-2005
Assistant Professor of
History,
1995-2000
Visiting Assistant Professor
of History,
1998-1999
Lecturer,
Spring 1995
Lecturer,
Fall 1993, Spring 1995
-Education
Northern
B.A. History, 1987
M.A. History, 1990
Ph.D, History 1997
Major
Dissertation "Playing
With Fire: The Nationalist Government and Opium in
Advanced research student,
1994
NEH Summer Institute Journey
to the West: Timeless Motifs from the Tang Dynasty June-July 1997
Courses taught
Introduction to History,
History of the Modern Era, Western Civilization to 1600, Western Civilization
since 1600, World History to 1600, World History since 1600, Early Modern
Europe, French Revolution, History of East Asia, Early China, Modern China,
Modern Japan, Senior Seminar, Drugs in World History, History of Shanghai,
Readings in Modern Chinese History. Conquest Dynasties and
Service to the University
Coordinator,
Asian studies program 2002-3.
2008-9
Service to the profession
Associate Editor The Chinese Historical Review
2003-present
Internet projects reviewer,
Longman Press
Reviewer for Palgrave
Macmillan
Reviewer for Modern
Contributor to Internet
Modern History Sourcebook
Contributor to Chinese
Biographical Database
Publications
Worse Than
Floods and Wild Beasts: The Chinese and Opium Under
the Republic SUNY Press, 2007. Paperback 2008
“Rethinking
Chinese History in a Global Age: An Interview with Wang Gungwu” in The Chinese Historical Review, 14.1
Spring 2007.
David Pong, ed. Encyclopedia
of Modern China Gale 2009 entry on Opium, 1800-1950.
Linsun Cheng, ed. Berkshire
Encyclopedia of
McCusker, et. al. History of World Trade since 1450.
Levinson D., Christensen K, eds Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, Chicago: Scribners,
2002. Entries on
"Opium," "Opium War," and "Christianity in
Modern China and Opium: A Reader, Source
book published by
"Opium Control versus
Opium Suppression: The Origins of the 1935 Six-Year Plan to Eliminate Opium and
Drugs" in Tim Brook and Bob Wakabayashi, eds. Opium Regimes:
"Who speaks for
"Playing
with Fire: The Nationalist Government and Popular Anti-Opium Agitation in
1927-1928" Republican
Reviews
Review of Tobie Meyer-Fong, Building Culture in Early Qing
Review of Dikotter et. al. Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in
Review of William Jankowiak and Daniel Bradburd, eds, Drugs, Labor and Colonial Expansion,
Review of Wong Sin Kiong,
Review of Lucian Bianco, Peasants Without
the Party: Grass Roots Movements in Twentieth Century
Review of John Richards “Opium and the British Indian Empire:
The Royal Commission of 1895” Modern
Asian Studies 36:2, 2002. in Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie,
2002
Review of Edward Slack Opium,
State and Society:
Review of Zhou Yongming Anti-Drug
Crusades in Twentieth Century
Review of Gregor Benton New
Fourth Army: Communist Resistance Along the Yangtze
and the Huai, 1938-1941,
Review of Marjorie Dryburgh,
Review of David Hinners, Tong Shao-Yi
and His Family: A Saga of Two Countries and Three Generations, Lanham:
University Press of
Review of Ho Ping, “Some
Critical Reflections on the Russo-Japanese War Among
Late Ch’ing Elite and Their Impacts on Reform movements” Dong Wu lishi xuebao
March 1999. in Revue
Bibliographique de Sinologie,
2001
Review of Rana Mitter, The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance and Collaboration in Modern
Review of Philippa Levine "Modernity, Medicine and Colonialism:
The Contagious Diseases Ordinances in
Review of Wang Ping, Aching
For Beauty: Footbinding in
Discussant, Panel
"History in Three Keys: Chinese, Japanese and British Civilizing Projects
on
Presentations
. “Training
for war and the nation: Hu Zongnan,
military training and xunlian
in the wartime Northwest.” Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the
Chinese Military History Society William Patterson University of New Jersey May
5, 2007
5. “Worse
than Floods and Wild Beasts: The Chinese understanding of opium and addiction
1800-1940” paper to be presented at
“Labor, Opium and the Chinese” Paper presented at
Asian Migrations Conference SUNY Binghamton, March 2006.
“The Model
Colony and the Model Colonial Citizen: Opium in Colonial Taiwan” Paper
presented at 18th IAHA conference in
"Opium and History in
and out of
"Citizenship, the
Nation and the Race:
“Separating the Sheep from
the Goats: Defining and counting opium addicts in Republican China.” paper
presented at workshop entitled “Deviance and Social Control in Early Twentieth
Century China”
“Money and
Policy: Feng Guozhang and the Opium Combine Case”
paper presented at Association for Asian Studies national meeting, 2003.
"Early Modern and
Modern Citizens in East Asia: Opium" paper presented at the conference
"Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations" July 4-7,
“Growers, Smokers, and the
Limits of State Authority: Nationalist Opium Suppression in Town and Country”
presented at Association for Asian Studies national meeting, 2002
"A
Tour of Chinese Opium Dens" Paper presented at Asian Modernities
Colloquium,
"Opium
in
"Negotiating
Purity: The Chinese people and opium under the Republic" paper presented
at the Association for Asian Studies national meeting,
"The Rhetoric of
"Scholarship
and the Internet" presentation at NEH Summer Institute,
"Religion
and Culture: Christian Missionaries in
"Opium Control versus
Opium Suppression: The Origins of the 1935 Six-Year Plan to Eliminate Opium and
Drugs" paper presented at Conference on Opium in East Asian History
1830-1945, University of Toronto, May, 1997.
"Playing with Fire: The
Nationalist Government and Popular Anti-Opium Agitation in 1928" paper
presented at Association for Asian Studies national meeting, Washington D.C.April, 1995.