William C. Kirby

William C. Kirby

William C. Kirby is Geisinger professor of history and a scholar of Chinese history and culture at Harvard University and is the former Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. After a controversial four-year tenure in which he clashed both with the Harvard faculty and its President, Lawrence Summers, he announced on January 27 2006 that he would resign as Dean.

Major publication

*Kirby, William C. "Germany and Republican China." Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1984.

External links

* [http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~history/facultyPage.cgi?id=21 Homepage at Harvard]


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