Liping Bu

Dr. Liping Bu’s teaching and research interests include American international relations and cultural diplomacy, educational exchange and knowledge circulation, public health and modernization. She teaches American foreign relations, 20th-century America and modern China and East Asia. She received her Ph.D. in history and policy from Carnegie Mellon University after studies at Peking University and Smith College. She has published six books and dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics related to American international education, cultural relations, public health and modern societies.

Professor Bu has received many national awards, including grants and fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Library of Medicine, the Rockefeller Archive Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities. At Alma College, she has received the Barlow Award, the Posey Award for Faculty Excellence and the Service Learning Award.

Professor Bu has been invited as a keynote speaker at major international conferences and a visiting scholar at universities in Singapore, Britain and China. As a scholar in residence at the National Library of Medicine, NIH, she created a higher education module on public health campaigns in China and curated exhibits on China’s public health and society.

Signature Courses:
Cold-War America; Immigration and Ethnicity; American Foreign Relations; China and the West.