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Status: MA Student

Adviser: Klaus Larres and Michael Morgan

Graduate Email: sbdavid@unc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

B.A. Distinguished Major in History, University of Virginia

Research Interests

My research interest is 20th-century Sino-American relations, specifically the relationship between American academia, the intelligence community, and government policy in the Cold War. My recent research focuses on the relationship between American academia and the government in the formulation of China policy during the early Cold War. My undergraduate thesis, entitled “Setting the Stage: John King Fairbank and the American Reconceptualization of Communist China in the 1960s,” uses Fairbank as a case study to explore the impact of McCarthyism on early China Hands.

Notable Awards and Fellowships

  • Bernard Peyton Chamberlain Prize for Best Thesis, University of Virginia, May 2024.
  • Doctoral Merit Fellowship Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024.