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Tu Weiming, Director
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email: wtu@fas.harvard.edu
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Tu Weiming, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, was born in 1940 in Kunming, China. He grew up in Taiwan and obtained a B.A. in Chinese Studies at Tunghai University (1961). He received his M.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1968) in history and East Asian studies at Harvard University. Tu has taught Chinese intellectual history, philosophies of China, and Confucian humanism at Princeton University (1967-71) and University of California at Berkeley (1971-81). He also taught at Peking University, Taiwan University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Ecole des Haute Etudes in Paris.
Tu has been on the Harvard faculty since 1981. He holds honorary professorships from Zhejing, Sun Yat-sen, Suzhou, Renmin, and Foreign Languages Universities and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and has been awarded honorary degrees from Lehigh, Michigan State (Grand Valley), Shandong, and Tunghai Universities. He was invited by the United Nations as a member of the Group of Eminent Persons to facilitate the Dialogue among Civilizations in 2001 and gave a presentation on civilizational dialogue to the Executive Board of UNESCO in 2004. He is an international advisor of Rahman University in Kuala Lumpur, chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, a vice-president of the International Confucian Association in Beijing, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tu has published over a dozen books in English. His five-volume collected works were published in China in 2001. He is currently studying the modern transformation of Confucian humanism in East Asia and tapping Confucian spiritual resources for human flourishing in the global community. |
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Peter L. Kelley, Executive Director
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plkelley@fas.harvard.edu
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Peter Kelley joined the Institute as Executive Director in 2004. Before coming to Harvard he spent 25 years in management consulting and the electronics industry with Braxton International and Teradyne, Inc. He lived for 5 years in Japan and 5 years in Europe starting up Teradyne's Connection Systems business in those markets, and traveled frequently throughout Asia as international sales manager of its Assembly Test Division. Mr. Kelley graduated from Harvard College with a degree in East Asian Studies and has a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law. |
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Susan S. Alpert, Assistant Director
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Ms. Alpert has been working at the Institute since 1990. She graduated from Colby College as an East Asian Studies major and spent her junior year abroad living in Kyoto, Japan, studying at Doshisha University. She began her work career at Harvard University, working first in the President's Office, then in the Reischauer Institute and finally at the Harvard-Yenching Institute starting first as the Visiting Scholars Program Coordinator. During her years at the Institute she has enjoyed getting to know so many Visiting Scholars. Although her work life at the Institute is enjoyable, she finds spending time with her two daughters most fulfilling. And, she also finds plenty of time year round to continue her ice-dance training. |
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Elaine Hall-Witham, Activities Coordinator
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email: witham@fas.harvard.edu
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Ms. Witham is a graduate of Boston College where she majored in English literature and received a teaching degree. She taught high school English for several years, including English as a Second Language. She is just celebrating her 10th year working at the Institute. Along with her administrative duties, she finds great satisfaction and enjoyment in planning and leading various events and trips for the visiting scholars program. |
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Huang Wan-sheng, Researcher and Editor, Humanities Anthology
(Vanserg Hall)
huang11@fas.harvard.edu
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Mr. Huang served as the Director of the Institute of Comparative Philosophy at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences from 1981-1992. He was a Visiting Professor at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France) from 1992-1997. Since 1997, Mr. Huang as been affiliated with the Harvard-Yenching Institute and from 1999 was a Researcher and began editing the HYI Humanities Anthology. |
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Ruohong Li, Visiting Scholars Program Manager
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ruohong_li@harvard.edu
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Ms. LI Ruohong graduated from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, with a B.A. in Philosophy and finished her M. Phil from St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002 in Chinese History and Inner Studies. She joined the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2001 as Professor TU Weiming's Research Assistant. Since 2004, she has been working as Visiting Scholars Program Manager. She has been a short-term visiting faculty at Wellesley College and Boston University. Her academic field of specialty includes Qing-Tibetan relations in the 18th and 19th centuries, ethnic conflicts and interaction in China's border land. She has recently been taking great interest in the history and development of higher education in China and the United States. |
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Nam Nguyen, Doctoral Scholars Program Manager
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email: nguyen2@fas.harvard.edu
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Mr. Nguyen Nam recently joined the staff of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and he manages all aspects of the Doctoral Scholarship Programs. He graduated from Ho Chi Minh City University with a B.A. and most recently graduated from Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations with a Ph.D. He looks forward to working with the doctoral scholars as well as sharing academic experiences with all the Institute's visiting scholars. |
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Lindsay Strogatz
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email: strogatz@fas.harvard.edu
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Lindsay Strogatz graduated from McGill University with a B.A. in Medical History and Anthropology. She has also studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at Beijing Normal University, where she completed an intensive Mandarin course in 2006. She is excited to have recently joined the Institute and looks forward to her work here, along with continuing to pursue her outside interests in music and languages. |
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Edward J. Baker, Consultant
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Mr. Baker's interest in Korea began with Peace Corps service as an English teacher at the College of Education of Seoul National University from 1966 through 1968. He has lived in Korea for more than 5 years and has traveled widely in Asia. He has a B.A. from Colby College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an M.A. from Harvard University. He was a staff member of the Subcommittee on International Organizations of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations durings its Investigation of Korean-American Relations in 1977-1978. He frequently writes and speaks on Korean affairs, particularly politics and human rights. He has been a member of the board of Asia Watch since its foundation in 1985. |
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