David Kenley

• 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.

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

Journal Articles and Chapters:

• Asia Shorts series editor (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021-present).
  Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic, editor (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020).
• “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).
• Modern Chinese History, Key Issues in Asian Studies Series, (Michigan: Association for Asian Studies, 2012, second revised edition published by Columbia University Press, 2020).
• “Esferas públicas de La Habana e identidad china en ultramar,” Mitzi Espinosa, ed., Emily Phillips, trans., Huellas de china en este lado del atlántico (Habana: José Martí Press, 2017).
• Contested Communities: Identities, Spaces, and Hierarchies of the Chinese in Havana, 1902-1968, with Miriam Herrera Jerez and Mario Castillo Santana (Leiden: Brill Press, 2017).
• “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).
• “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).
• “Overseas Print Capitalism and Chinese Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century,” Rohit Chopra (ed.), Global Media, Cultures, and Identities (New York: Routledge Press, 2011).
• “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).

• 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).

• “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.
• “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).
• “Publishing the New Culture: Singapore’s Newspapers and Diaspora Literature, 1919-1933,” Explorations in Southeast Asian Studies, 2, no.2 (Spring 1998): 2-26.
  
  

• “Transnational Public Memory: Memorializing the Shanxi Brethren,” co-authored with Dr. Jeffrey Bach, American Association for Chinese Studies conference (Denver), 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.
• “Remembering May Fourth: Centennial Celebrations in Southeast Asia,” Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), 2019.
• “Xi Jinping and the China Dream: Understanding Contemporary Political Economy,” National Consortium for Teaching about Asia conference (University of Pennsylvania), 2016.
• “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.
• 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.
• “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.
• “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.
• “On the Move: Teaching about Chinese Migration,” National Consortium for Teaching about Asia workshop (University of Pittsburgh), 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.
• “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.
• “Nationalism, Print Capitalism, and the Overseas Chinese in Japan, 1895-1910,” Association for Asian Studies National Conference (Philadelphia), 2010.
• Panel discussant for “Sustainable Identities: Nationalism and Transnationalism,” Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference (Pennsylvania State University), 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.
• “Westernization and Modernization: Problematizing the Theoretical Contours of Chinese Migration,” National Consortium for Teaching about Asia Regional Meeting (Elizabethtown, PA), 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.
• Panel discussant for “National Integration and the Open Door: Problems in China’s Developmental Experience,” American Association for Chinese Studies national conference, 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.
• “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.
• “The Search for Local Color: The Growth of New Literature in Singapore,” School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies Conference (Honolulu, HI), 1998.
• “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.