The Nitze School
of Advanced International Studies has named Jan Kiely
as the new American
co-director of the
Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American
Studies. He joined Johns
Hopkins in September and is based in Nanjing.
In his new post, Kiely is responsible for the
management of the center's affairs with the
Chinese co-director, as well as the administration of the
newly established master's program, the first
Sino-U.S. MA degree accredited in both countries. He also
serves as an associate professor at the
center, where he will teach courses about the history of
U.S.-Chinese social and cultural interaction.
He previously served as director of the Furman in
China Programs and associate professor of
history and Asian studies at Furman University in
Greenville, S.C.
Kiely's experiences in China began as a visiting
student at Chengdu Middle School Number Seven
in 1982. He later lived and studied in Wuhan, Hong Kong,
Beijing and Nanjing. He has taught at Central
China Normal University, the Chinese University of Hong
Kong, Nanjing University and Harvard
University and has directed study-abroad programs at
Beijing, East China Normal and Suzhou
universities. A former Yale-China Fellow, Kiely currently
is a National Committee on United States-
China Relations Public Intellectuals Program Fellow.
He holds a bachelor's degree in East Asian studies
from Yale, a master's in Asian history from
the University of Hawaii, Manoa and a doctorate in Chinese
history from the University of California,
Berkeley.
Established in 1986, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center is a
postgraduate educational joint venture
between Johns Hopkins and Nanjing University, providing
more than 130 students from the U.S. and
other countries and China the unique opportunity to live
and study together. In addition, the center
has the only open-stack, uncensored library in China,
containing more than 80,000 English and Chinese
volumes. SAIS administers the center's activities on behalf
of JHU.
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