International Speaker Series: Dr. Katherine Kaup (James B. Duke Professor of Asian Studies and Political Science, Furman University)

Event Date:
October 16, 2014 – 3:30 PM to October 17, 2014 – 4:59 PM

Location:
Atkins Library, Halton Reading Room

Dr. Katherine Kaup, author of Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China and James B. Duke Professor of Asian Studies and Political Science, Furman University

Dr. Kaup has travelled to China for research and with study tours since 1990. Her research focuses on ethnic minorities and rule of law developments in China. She is the author of Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China, several articles and chapters on ethnic minorities, and editor and contributor to the textbook Understanding Contemporary Asia.

Kaup served as special adviser for Minority Nationalities Affairs at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, chair of Furman’s Asian Studies Department, director of the Riley Institute’s China Programs, Public Intellectuals Program fellow with the National Committee on United States-China Relations, distinguished visiting fellow at Yunnan Nationalities University, and principal investigator/program director for several federally-funded Chinese language programs and for the privately-funded Henry Luce Foundation Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment. She holds an A.B. from Princeton University and an M.A./Ph.D in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.