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Liping Bu, Ph.D.

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Selected Chapter Book Publications

  • "Education and International Cultural Understanding: The Elite American Approach, 1920-1937." In Teaching America to the World and the World to America: Education and Foreign Relations since 1870 , edited by Richard Garlitz and Lisa Jarvinen, 111-134. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
  • "Korean War Anti-Germ Warfare Posters." In Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, edited by Michael Sappol, 198-199. Blast Books, 2012.
  • "Chinese Anti-Tuberculosis Flyers,." In Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, edited by Michael Sappol, 166-167. Blast Books, 2012.
  • "Introduction: Interpreting Science and Public Health in Modern Asia, ." In Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia , edited by Liping Bu, Darwin Stapleton and Ka-che Yip, 1-15. London: Routledge, 2012.
  • "Beijing First Health Station: Innovative Public Health Education and Influence on China's Health Profession, ." In Science, Public Health and the State in Modern Asia, edited by Liping Bu, Darwin Stapleton and Ka-che Yip, 129-143. London: Routledge, 2012.
  • "Social Darwinism, Public Health and Modernization in China, 1895-1925." In Uneasy Encounters: The Politics of Medicine and Health in China 1900-1937, edited by Iris Borowy, 93-124. Germany: Peter Lang,,  2009.
  • "Cultural Communication in Picturing Health: W. W. Peter and the Public Health Campaigns in China, 1912-1926." In Imagining Illness: Public Health and Visual Culture, edited by David Serlin, 24-39. University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

 

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Dr. Carol Bender

Dr. Carol Bender
Departments: English

Dr. Carol Bender, professor of English, has had a special interest in African-American literature since her guest professorship at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where the faculty she worked with had tremendous expertise in the subject. Much of her professional writing and scholarship focuses on black women writers such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Gloria Naylor.

Her other interest, women’s literature, stems from her curiosity in women’s studies, a program she and a colleague started at Alma in 1992.

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