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Dr. Cook is a specialist in modern East Asian history. His main areas
of research are urban history, the Chinese diaspora, and Fujian province.
Born in Southeast Asia, Dr. Cook was raised in suburban New York and
San Francisco. He attended the University of California, Santa Cruz
for his undergraduate education where he majored in "politics" and wrote
his B. A. thesis on China's foreign policy towards Southeast Asia under
Mao. He completed his M. A. in Chinese Studies in 1994, and his Ph.D.
in 1998 in modern East Asian history at the University of California,
San Diego where he worked with Joseph Esherick and Paul Pickowicz. He
has traveled extensively in Asia, including a residence of three years
in China, and is a practicing Buddhist. At Central Washington University,
he is also heavily involved in sponsoring undergraduate research in
China, and leads student study tours to China every year. Most recently,
he helped to author a grant that allowed CWU undergraduates to undertake
four weeks of primary research in Hawaii and Beijing in the summer of
200l. He can be reached at jacook@cwu.edu. |
- Assistant Professor, Department of History, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA. Fall 1998 - Present.
- December 1998 Ph.D., East Asian History, University of California, San Diego. Advisors: Professors Joseph Esherick and Paul Pickowicz.
- December 1996 Ph.D. Candidacy, East Asian History, University of California, San Diego.
- June 1993 M. A. Chinese Studies. University of California. San Diego.
- June 1987 B. A., Political Science, University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Review of The Last Half Century of the Chinese Overseas. Edited by Elizabeth Sinn. In Journal of World History II (October 2000), pp.123-125.
- "Diaspora Modernity: Confucian Cosmopolitanism, Hoagie Political Organizations, and Qiaoxiang Reform Movement," in Materializing Modernity: Changes in Everyday Life in Twentieth Century China, eds. Yue Dong and Joshua Goldstein (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001)
- "Currents of Education and Identity: Overseas Chinese and Minnan Schools, 1912-1937," Twentieth Century China, April 2000.
- "Bridges to Modernity: Xiamen, Overseas Chinese and Southeast Coastal Modernization, 1843- 1937," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Ca1ifornia, San Diego, December 1998.
- "Penetration and Neocolonialism: The Shen Chong Rape Case and the Anti-American Student Movement of 1946-47," Republican China, 22.1 (November 1996): 65-97.
- "Faxisizhuyi yu Nanjing da tusha (Fascism and the Nanjing Massacre)," Beijing daxue lishixi 1995 baogaoji (Historical Reports of the History Department of Beijing University, 1995), December 1995.
- "The Gold Coin Uprising," M. A. thesis, University of California, San
Diego, June 1993.
- "Diasporic Modernity: Confucian Cosmopolitanism, Huaqiao Political Organizations, and Qiaoxiang Reform Movement of the 1920s," presented at the "Materializing Modernity in China" Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, September 2000.
- "Maritime Modernity: Fujian Huaqiao and the 1920s Qiaoxiang Reform Movement," presented at the 2000 Association for Asian Studies National Convention, San Diego, CA, March 2000.
- "Huaqiao and Homeland: Overseas Chinese and Xiamen Urbanization, 1920-1932," presented at the Regional China Colloquium, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C., March 2000.
- "Amoy Businesses in Asia and their Homeland Investments," presented at the Duke Workshop on International Migration, Duke University, Durham, NC, May 1999.
- "Overseas Chinese Nationalism and Huaqiao National Salvation Societies, 1919-1932," presented at the "Meanings and Mechanisms of Migration: Immigrants, Exiles and Homelands" conference, Harvard Asia Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 1999.
- "Currents of Education and Identity: Overseas Chinese and Minnan Schools, 1912-1937," presented at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) National Convention, Boston, MA, March 1999.
- "Huaqiao and Homeland: Overseas Chinese and Xiamen's Urbanization, 1920-1937," presented at the "Maritime China: Culture, Commerce, and Society" symposium, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, March 1998.
- "The Shen Chong Rape Case and the Anti-American Student Movement of 1946-47," presented at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) National Convention, Washington, D.C., Apri1 1995.
- "Sustainability in Urban China: Environment, Pollution, and Society in 21st Century Beijing." Authored proposal that was funded for over $80,000 by the Alice and Leslie E. Lancy Foundation, National Conferences on Undergraduate Research, and Central Washington University to support undergraduate research into environmental stability in China, Summer 2001.
- College of Arts and Humanities Travel Award, Central Washington University, December 2000.
- Small Grants Award, "Minnan Schools," College of Graduate Studies, Central Washington University, March 2000.
- Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association, January 2000.
- Interdisciplinary Teaching Award, College of Arts and Humanities, Central Washington University, 1999.
- Summer Creativity Grant, College of Arts and Humanities, Central Washington University, 1999.
- Small Grants Award, College of Graduate Studies, Central Washington University, 1999.
- Department of History Writing Fellowship, University of California, San Diego, 1997-98.
- Dean of Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, San Diego, 1996-97.
- Martin Luther King Scholarship for World Understanding, Scripps Foundation, 1996.
- University of California, San Diego International Center Scholarship, 1995.
- Teaching Excellence Award, Eleanor Roosevelt College World History Sequence, University of California, San Diego, 1995.
- Title VI Language Fellowship, 1994.
- Pacific Rim Scholarship, University of California, San Diego, 1991, 1995.
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