
SELECTED ACADEMIC AND PUBLIC
SERVICE
1. Service at USNA
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Founder and director of US Naval Academy
Asia Forum
2008--
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Member of the Naval Academy Civilian Faculty
Teaching Excellence Committee, 2008--
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Co-chair of the Naval Academy Civilian
Faculty Teaching Excellence Committee, 2008
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Member of the Naval Academy Military Faculty Teaching
Excellence Committee, 2008--
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Member of the Naval Academy Research Council Committee,
2008-2011
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Member of Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
Curriculum Committee, 2008-2011
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Elected Senator
representing the History Department at the Naval Academy Faculty Senate,
2006-2008
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Chair, US Naval Academy Faculty Senate
Committee on Information, Technology and Library, 2007-2008
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Member of the
International Program Supervising Committee (the Disher committee), 2006--
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Member of the yardwide
NARC committee representing the Faculty Senate, 2006-2008
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Chair, Hiring Committee for a Naval/Military
Historian, 2008
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Director, Naval History Symposium, 2007
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Chair of the Naval History
Symposium Committee, 2005-2007
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Member of the
History Honors Program, 2005-2007
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Chair for the History
Honors Class of 2007
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Member of the History
Department’s Hiring Committee in search of successful candidates for South
Asia, Japan/Southeast Asia positions
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Alternate Senator for the
History Department, 2007
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Member of the Senate
Subcommittee on Information and Library
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Member of the
Superintendent’s Task Force for the Library of the Future, 2005-2006
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Special guest of the
Language Studies Department for its hiring of three full-time Chinese
language professors, 2005/2006 and 2000/2001.
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Elected to the Pay and
Award Committee, 2005-2006
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Member of the History
Department Curriculum Review Committee, 2005-2006
- Member of the Superintendent's Ad Hoc Committee on Dean’s Survey, Spring
2005, 2004-2005
- Elected to the Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2004-2005
- Member of the
Departmental Hiring Committee for an African historian, 2004-2005
- Midshipman Chinese-American Club, consultant, 1994-2005
- Member of the
Institutional Research Committee and Naval Academy Research Council (NARC)
Committee, 2003-2004
- Member of
Naval and Military History Committee, 2003-2004
- Member of the Research and Sabbatical Committee, 2002-2003
- Faculty Advisor to Omega Kappa Chapter (USNA) of Phi Alpha Theta, 1996-2001
- Elected to the Pay and Award Committee, 1999-2000
- Chair
for the History Honors Class of 1999
- Member
of the History Honors Program, 1997-1999
- Facilitator
for Integrity Development Seminar (IDS), 1998-1999
- Faculty Adviser to USNA Midshipmen East Asian Studies Club, 1996-1998
- Member of the History Majors committee, 1995-1996
- Member of the History Department’s Research and Sabbatical Committee,
1994-1995
- Coordinator,
Combined Federal Campaign, 1994-1995
2. Civic Participation
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board member and/or consultant of various
national, international and governmental agencies and organizations, 1996--
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President of the Riva
Woods (Annapolis) Home Owners Association, in charge of community covenant
enforcement, liaison with county bureaucrats, 2006-2007
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Member of Maryland
Saltwater Sportfishermen’s Association (MSSA), involving in
membership-related legislative initiatives at the Maryland State Assembly,
1999-2006
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Member of Boat Owners
Association of the United States (BoatU.S.), 1999-2006