CIS: Come to Grinnell, Explore the World

Professor Fanso visited Grinnell from the University of Yaounde, Cameroon, where he is a Professor of History. Professor Fanso taught a three-week short course, "Central African History" and presented one public lecture, "The Minority Problem in Cameroon: The Case of Anglophones."

Professor Nakahara visited Grinnell from Tokyo, Japan where she most recently held the position of Professor of Asian History, Center for International Education, Waseda University. Professor Nakahara taught a four-week short course, "Women and the Emperor in Modern Japan" and presented one public lecture, "My Memory. My Story."

Michicko Nakahara previously taught at Grinnell College in 1987-88 under the auspices of the John R. Heath Professorship.

Ping-chen Hsiung, currently an Adjunct Professor of History at Fu Jeng Catholoc University in Taipai, Taiwan, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, also in Taipai. Professor Hsiung has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in History from Brown University, and has also studied at the Harvard University School of Public Health as well as the National Taiwan University. She ahs been a visiting faculty member or scholar at various intitutions, including the Freie Universitat in Berlin, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale in Paris, Keio University in Tokyo, Princeton University, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, University of Michigan, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Chicago. She is the author or editor of numerous publications, including the following books (in Chinese): Reflections on Childhood in the Past - A History of Chinese Children (2000), Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and Human Desire: Post/Modernity in Pre-Modern Chinese Cultural Developments (editor; 1999), In Peace or Discomfort: Diseases and Health of Young Children in Late Imperial China (1999).

Professor Hsiung taught a four-week short course, "Making Way for Life: Childhood and Pediatrics in Late Imperial China."