David Kenley

-Research methods
-Asian history
-U.S. history

-Modern and Contemporary China
-U.S. - China cyber competition
-Public Memory

Faculty Merit Award for Teaching, Elizabethtown College, 2008

College of Liberal Arts Teacher of the Year, Marshall University, 2003

University Teacher of the Year finalist, Marshall University, 2001

Electronic Course Development Research Fellow, Marshall University, 1999, 20

• EPSCoR Grant 2020-2025
  • This is a five-year, $163,000 initiative promoting student-faculty research in both chemistry and biology.
• South Dakota Education Access Foundation Grant 2019-2022
  
  • Designed to enhance retention and graduation rates by addressing challenges in key “gateway” courses in mathematics, this $22,160 grant funded the creation of a summer bridge program and the hiring of upper-class students to provide supplemental instruction.
• Andrew W. Mellon Grant (PI) 2017-19
  
  • Building on the success of a previous Mellon Grant, this $200,000 award enhanced humanities courses across the college with an emphasis on digital humanities and local history, including the creation of a digital humanities lab.
• United Service Foundation Grant 2013-17
  
  • With our Peacemaker-in-Residence, we were awarded $122,000 to develop 2 new courses in Peace and Conflict Studies, offset salary costs for the resident, and support faculty and student international travel to other peacemaking centers.
• Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Grant (PI) 2012-14
  
  • Secured an approximately $200,000 grant to enlarge Asian Studies as a signature program, create a new Chinese language lecturer position, add 4 new Asian Studies courses, host a Teach Japan conference, and launch an international NGO internship program.
• Freeman Foundation Grant (PI) 2002-2021
  
  • Obtained approximately $1,000,000 in renewable grant funding. Administered through the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, these monies support a wide variety of in-service educational opportunities for K-12 educators, including numerous study abroad programs in China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and Nepal.
• Collaborative Interdisciplinary Scholarship Program grants (PI) 2007, 2013, and 2017
  
  • Co-authored three separate grants with a combined value of approximately $83,000.
  • The 2007 grant funded a faculty/student archaeological dig at a Susquehannock Native American site followed by research trips to Berlin, London, and Copenhagen.
  • The 2013 grant created a new interdisciplinary course and supported faculty/student archival research regarding peacemaking work in early twentieth-century China.
  • The 2017 grant funded a collaborative art exhibition between Elizabethtown College and Stuttgart Galerie in Germany. Addressing the theme of peacemaking, professional artists mentored students in curating the exhibition and producing the accompanying catalogue.
• Council of Independent Colleges’ Online Humanities Grant (PI) 2014-16
  
  • Procured a $30,000 grant to design two upper-division online humanities courses.
  • Served on the advisory committee for the creation of a 20-school consortium in which students could enroll in online courses at any of the member institutions. The consortium eventually grew to 40 schools.
• Andrew W. Mellon Grant, “Creating a Digital Humanities Program” (PI) 2015
  
  • Designed and obtained a $20,000 grant to create a digital humanities program, including an introductory course and an online repository.
• Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction grant to explore the use of online and hybrid teaching methods as feasible alternatives to traditional upper-level undergraduate courses in the humanities, 2015
  
• Council of Independent Colleges Grant to develop online upper-division humanities courses, 2018
  
• CISP Interdisciplinary Research Grant, “Project Peace: An American and European Exchange of Art and Writings,” 2017
  
• Mellon Foundation Grant, “Digital Humanities Challenge at Elizabethtown College,” 2015, 2018
  
• CISP Interdisciplinary Research Grant, “Peace and Conflict in China: An Interdisciplinary Proposal for Faculty/Student Research at Elizabethtown College,” 2013
  
• CISP Interdisciplinary Research Grant, “The Susquehannock Indians of Washington Borough,” 2007

In addition to the works listed below, Kenley has published over 60 critical reviews and encyclopedia entries.

Journal Articles and Chapters:

• Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic (editor), Association for Asian Studies Asia Shorts Series (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020).
• New Culture in a New World: The May Fourth Movement and the Chinese Diaspora, 1919-1932 (New York: Routledge Press, 2003 in hardback, 2007 in Kindle, and 2013 in paperback).
• Modern Chinese History, Key Issues in Asian Studies Series, with an introduction by series editor Lucien Ellington (Association for Asian Studies, 2012, second edition 2020).
• Contested Communities: Identities, Spaces, and Hierarchies of the Chinese in Havana, 1902-1968, by Miriam Herrera Jerez and Mario Castillo Santana, edited by David Kenley (Leiden: Brill Press, 2017).
• “New Culture Turns One Hundred: A Centennial Reflection on the May Fourth and New Culture Movement in Singapore,” Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives 20 (2022): 1-21.
• “Deconstructing Compulsory Realpolitik in Cultural Studies: An Interview with Alexa Alice Joubin,” co-authored with William Sewell, American Journal of Chinese Studies 28.2 (2021): 115-130.
• “Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic: A Conversation with David Kenley,” authored by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, Education About Asia 25.3 (2020).
• “May Fourth at 100 in Singapore and Hong Kong” (co-authored with Els Van Dongen), International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter 86 (Summer 2020).
• “Looking beyond the Umbrellas: Understanding the 2014 Political Protests in Hong Kong,” WACH Journal of International Thought, April 2015
• “Advertising Community: The Union Times and Singapore’s Public Sphere, 1906-1939,” Journal of World History 25.4 (December 2014): 583-609.
• “Understanding and Teaching Migration in China,” Education about Asia 19.3 (Winter 2014).
• “Bridging 1949: Brethren Missionaries and the Communist Revolution,” co-authored with Cesar Vera (an undergraduate student) and Jeffrey Bach, American Journal for Chinese Studies (Fall 2013).
• “The Sword of the Spirit: A Silent Relic from China’s Christian Past,” co-authored with Peter DePuydt, Journal of Asian History, 44.1 (2010)
• “History and Memory,” featured cover article for Education About Asia 14.1 (Spring 2009).
• “The Not So Black and White World of Brothers: Morality and Filialty in the Works of Lu Xun and Lao She,” in volume 36, Morality and the Literary Imagination, Religion and Public Life, edited by and with an introduction by Gabriel R. Ricci, (Transaction Publishers, January 2009).
• “Singapore’s May Fourth Movement and Overseas Print Capitalism,” Asia Research Institute Working Papers Series, 70 (May 2006).
• “Three Gorges be Damned: The Philosophical Roots of Environmentalism in China,” in volume 35, Cultural Landscapes, Religion and Public Life, edited by and with an introduction by Gabriel R. Ricci, (Transaction Publishers, September, 2006).
• “Singapore’s Middle Realm: The Nanyang Shang Bao and the Jinan Incident of 1928,” American Journal of Chinese Studies, 10, no. 1 (April 2003): 65-84.
• “Publishing the New Culture: Singapore’s Newspapers and Diaspora Literature, 1919-1933,” Explorations in Southeast Asian Studies, 2, no.2 (Spring 1998): 2-26.
• “Educational Crisis in Shanxi: An Analysis of Brethren Mission Schools in Republican China” (co-authored with Jeff Bach), Jeff Kyong-McClain and Joseph Lee, eds., From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes: Historical Reflections on Sino-American Cultural Exchange (New York: Routledge Press, 2023).
• “Construyendo una comunidad imaginada en América Latina:
  Fraternidad/Lianhe de La Habana, 1938-1944,” Susan Chen Mio, Ricardo Martínez Esquivel, and Jorge Bartels Villanueva (eds.), Edwin Quesada Montiel, trans., Estudios sobre China desde Latinoamérica: Modernidad, geopolítica, religion e inmigracíon (San Jose: University of Costa Rica Press, 2013). Reprinted in Ricardo Martínez Esquivel (ed.), Los Chinos de Ultramar: Diásporas, Sociabilidad e Identidades (Mexico: Palabra de Clío, 2018).
• “Esferas públicas de La Habana e identidad china en ultramar,” Huellas de china en este lado del atlántico (Habana: José Martí, 2017).
• “Overseas Print Capitalism and Chinese Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century,” Rohit Chopra (ed.), Global Media, Cultures, and Identities (New York: Routledge Press, 2011).
• “Taiwan and China: Unification and Nationalism,” History Behind the Headlines (Michigan: Gale Group, 2000).
• “China and Religious Protest: The Falun Gong,” History Behind the Headlines (Michigan: Gale Group, 2000).
  
  
  

• “Memorializing the Shanghai Jewish Quarter: The Role of Public Memory in Contemporary China,” Western Conference Association for Asian Studies, Weber State University, October 2024
• “Missionaries as Educators and Ethnographers in Sino-American Exchange,” International Convention of Asia Scholars Conference, Surabaya, Indonesia, August 2024
• “Shaping US-China Cyber Competition,” co-authored with Olivia Armstrong, Western Conference on Asian Studies, West Yellowstone, October 2023
• “Transnational Public Memory: Memorializing the Shanxi Brethren,” American Association for Chinese Studies, Denver, October 2022
• “Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic,” panel discussion, Association for Asian Studies conference, online, March 2021
• “International Revolution: The Roles of Chinese-Cubans in Mid-Century Communist Movements,” American Association for Chinese Studies, Baltimore, October 2018
• “Politics and Ideology: Classroom China in the Age of Higher Education Globalization,” Association for Asian Studies conference, Denver, March 2019
• “Looking Beyond Shangri La: Teaching about Tibet,” Committee on Teaching About Asia conference, Denver, March 2019
• “China Brethren and the Great War: The View from the East,” Peace Churches and the Great War conference, June 2018
• “Healing the Community: Medicinal Advertisements in Singapore’s Chinese Newspapers, 1906-1945,” History of Medicine in Southeast Asia Biennial Conference (Center for Khmer Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia), 2016
• “Contested Community: Class, Culture, and Californians in Havana’s Barrio Chino,” Social Science History Association (Baltimore), 2015
• “The Sick Man of Asia: Analyzing Medicinal Ads in an Overseas Community, 1908-1941,” New York Conference for Asian Studies (Binghamton University), 2013
• “Constructing an Imagined Community: Havana’s Fraternidad/Lianhe, 1938-1944,” Simposio Internacional Sobre Estudios de China (University of Costa Rica), 2012
• “Overseas Print Capitalism and Chinese Nationalism: Cuba’s Contribution to a Global Conversation,” Intercambio Teórico, 125 Aniversario de La Fundación de la Asociación Nacioinal Min Chih Tang de Cuba (Havana, Cuba), 2012
• “Advertising Community: The Union Times and Singapore’s Public Sphere, 1906-1939,” Publics and Public-spheres in Colonial Singapore, a workshop sponsored by the University of Heidelberg as part of its “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” cluster (Heidelberg), 2011
• “The Chinese Diaspora in Cuba: Wielding the Tools of Overseas Nationalism,” American Association for Chinese Studies National Conference (University of Pennsylvania), 2011
• “Nationalism, Print Capitalism, and the Overseas Chinese in Japan, 1895-1910,” Association for Asian Studies National Conference (Philadelphia), 2010
• “The Pros and Cons of Online Learning to Expand the Knowledge and Study of Asia,” China in the Curriculum Symposium (San Antonio), 2009
• “The Sword of the Spirit: A Silent Relic from China’s Christian Past,” co-authored with Peter DePuydt, Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies annual conference (Villanova), 2009
• “Preparing for the Ministry: A Comparative look at Ministerial Training in the Brethren and Mormon Churches,” Brethren conference (Elizabethtown), 2007
• “Historicizing Buddhism,” Association for Asian Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference (Washington, D.C.), October 2003
• “Teaching Modern China with Contemporary Chinese Societies,” Association of Asian Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference (Slippery Rock, PA), October 2001
• “Civil Society in a Diaspora Community,” World History Association National Conference (Salt Lake City, UT), June 2001
• “Singapore’s Middle Realm: The Nanyang Shang Bao and the Jinan Incident of 1928,” Association of Asian Studies National Conference (Chicago, IL), March 2001
• “Language Reform and the Chinese Diaspora,” American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Convention (Lahaina, HI), August 1999
• “Discarding Stale Phrases: Hu Shih and Chinese Poetry, 1915-1925,” Brigham Young University Symposium on Language, Literature, and Communication (Laie, HI), 1998
• “The Search for Local Color: The Growth of New Literature in Singapore,” School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies Conference (Honolulu, HI), 1998
• “Putting Gibbon on the Couch: A Psychological History of Edward Gibbon and His Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference (Honolulu, HI), 1996
• “Cyber Ambitions in Cyberspace: United States & China,” National Security Administration, Washington (virtual), September 2024
• “Why They Came: 19th Century Chinese Immigrants,” National Council for the Social Studies annual conference, Nashville, December 2023
• “Roundtable: Scholarly Book Publishing in Asian Studies Since COVID-19,” Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston, March 2023
• “Teaching About Asia: Contemporary Challenges and Opportunities,” Association for Asian Studies, Boston, March 2023
• “Publishing in Asian Studies Roundtable with Acquisition Editors,” Midwest Conference for Asian Studies, University of Kansas, September 2022
• “New Culture turns 100: A Centennial Reflection on the May Fourth and New Culture Movement in Singapore,” SSRC workshop on Chinese Diasporas and Transnational Public Sphere in the Long Twentieth Century, John Hopkins University, May 2020
• “Voices over Water: China, the US, and the Coronavirus,” Etown Experts Speaker Series on COVID-19, April 2020
• “Embodied Reckonings: An Analysis of Elizabeth Son’s ‘Comfort Women’ and Performance,” National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, April 2020
• “Commemorating May Fourth among the Overseas Chinese,” Singapore National Library, November 2019
• “Tearing down the Truth? War Memorials and Historical Memory,” Quest for Learning Seminar, Lancaster, April 2019
• “Remembering and Forgetting: War Memorials in East Asia,” Whose Narrative? Re-Examining War Memorials in East Asia and the U.S. seminar, Pittsburgh, April 2019
• “US-China-Taiwan Relations in the Trump Era,” Winters Heritage House, 2017
• “Xi Jinping and the China Dream: Understanding Contemporary Political Economy,” National Consortium for Teaching about Asia conference (University of Pennsylvania), 2016.
• “Remembering the Brethren: The Memorial Hall of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters at Matian,” Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies panel, 2016
• “Family Planning: China's Radical Social Experiment,” Pennsylvania Chautauqua, 2016
• Elizabethtown College Alumni Peace Fellow lecture, “Reconciliation and Remembering, 70 Years after World War II,” 2015
• Presidential Roundtable Participant, Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (Pittsburgh), 2015
• Panel discussant for “War and Memory in East and Southeast Asia,” Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (Pittsburgh), 2015
• Panel discussant for “Beyond Sino-Centrism: China, Southeast Asia, and Transnational Chinese Identities in Interdisciplinary Perspective,” Association for Asian Studies Conference (Chicago), 2015
• Panel discussant at Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference (Hofstra University), 2014
• “From Mao to Now: Politics in Contemporary China,” Globalizing the Future: Incorporating Perspectives on Contemporary China across the Curriculum (Southern Polytechnic State University), 2014
• Roundtable Discussant for “Key Issues in Asian Studies: A Teaching Resource,” Association for Asian Studies annual conference (Philadelphia), 2014
• Panel organizer and discussant, “Multilocality and Identity: Transnational Chinese Communities,” American Association for Chinese Studies annual conference (Rutgers University), 2013
• Panel discussant for “Perspectives on Asia,” Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference (University of Delaware), 2013
• Panel discussant for “Asia through Foreign Eyes/ Foreigners through Asian Eyes,” Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference (West Chester University), 2012
• Concluding roundtable discussant for the annual Asian Studies Collaborative Conference, 2012
• “Employability Skills, Values, Opportunities, and Challenges for Universities in Nigeria and the United States,” Professor Grace Mbipom Annual Lecture (University of Calabar, Nigeria), 2012
• “On the Move: Teaching about Chinese Migration,” National Consortium for Teaching about Asia workshop (University of Pittsburgh), 2012
• “The China Model and the Washington Consensus: China’s Role in the World,” National Consortium for Teaching about Asia workshop (University of Colorado), 2011
• Panel discussant for “Migrants and Enclaves,” Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference (Princeton University), 2011
• “Learning from Each Other: Contemporary Scenario in Higher Education in India and the United States,” Keynote speaker for INCOSHE - 2011 (Nagindas Khandwala College, University of Mumbai) 2011
• Panel discussant for “Sustainable Identities: Nationalism and Transnationalism,” Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference (Pennsylvania State University), 2010
• “Wu Man and the Chinese Pipa: A Curtain Raising Act from Behind the Iron Curtain,” Wednesday-at-11 Forum (Elizabethtown College), 2010
• “The 1979 Islamic Revolution and Contemporary Iran,” Wednesday-at-11 Forum Moderator (Elizabethtown College), 2010
• “Westernization and Modernization: Problematizing the Theoretical Contours of Chinese Migration,” National Consortium for Teaching about Asia Regional Meeting (Elizabethtown, PA), 2009
• “Southeast China as a Liminal Space and Overseas Chinese Migration,” National Consortium for Teaching about Asia Regional Meeting (Pittsburgh), 2009
• Panel discussant for “Decolonization, the Cold War, and Revolution: A Border-crossing Examination of the Chinese Experience in Four Southeast Asian Countries,” Association for Asian Studies National Conference (Chicago), 2009
• Panel discussant for “Insiders and Outsiders? Regionalism, Nationalism, and Transnationalism in the Chinese Diaspora, 1860s-1950s,” Association for Asian Studies National Conference (Atlanta), 2008
• “Singapore’s May Fourth Movement and Overseas Print Capitalism,” Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, May 2006.
• “History and Memory: Understanding Asia in the Twenty-First Century,” Elizabethtown College Faculty Lecture Series, 2006
• Panel discussant for “Mardi Gras: Made in China,” Women and Gender Studies film presentation, 2005
• Panel discussant for “National Integration and the Open Door: Problems in China’s Developmental Experience,” American Association for Chinese Studies national conference, 2005
• Panel discussant for “Topics in Literature and Culture,” American Association for Chinese Studies national conference, 2005
• “History and Nationalism: The Imagined Community in the Twentieth Century,” Keynote Address, History Department Banquet (Elizabethtown College, PA), 2005
• “(Re)Writing History: The First Communist Party Congress Museum and Public Memory in China,” National Consortium for Teaching about Asia Regional Meeting (Pittsburgh, PA), 2004
• “Confucius Lives Next Door: The Underside of Japan's Other Miracle,” National Consortium for Teaching about Asia Regional Meeting (Pittsburgh, PA), 2003
• Panel discussant at the Midwest Conference on Asian History and Culture (Columbus, OH), May 2002
• “The May Fourth Movement in Singapore: Studying May Fourth from a Diaspora Perspective,” The May 4th International Symposium in Celebration of the 101st Anniversary of Peking University (Beijing, China), May 1999