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Schwarcz, Vera


Chair, East Asian Studies Program
860.685.3772

Director, Freeman Center for East Asian Studies
860.685.3772

Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies
860.685.2383

Professor of History
860.685.2383

Professor, East Asian Studies
860.685.2383

BA Vassar College
MA Yale University
PHD Stanford University
MAA Wesleyan University
EMAIL: vschwarcz@wesleyan.edu
PERSONAL HOME PAGE: http://between2walls.com
COURSES TAUGHT: HIST223 - 01
AREAS OF EXPERTISE: Chinese Intellectual History,
Comparative Memory Studies
Poetry and History
Truth and Historical Narative

RESEARCH INTERESTS: the role of truth in the wake of historial trauma
history of landscaped spaces
ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS: association for asian studies

AWARDS WON: Finalist, National Jewish Book Awarr
Poetry Fellowship: Wesleyan Writers' Conference; Patzcuaro Writers' Conference
PUBLICATIONS: http://between2walls.com/
SPECIAL ROLE IN DEPARTMENT: developing student edited journals for History Department and East Asian Studies

Developing and hosting Speakers' Series on the arts of History as well as 30th anniversary of US-China relations
GRANTS: Guggenheim Fellowship 1989-1990
Founders Fellowship, AAUW 1988-89
American Council of Learned Societies, 1996
National Academy of Sciences: 1979-80