美国鲍尔州立大学历史学教授James Connolly将于近日到访桂林，并于本月18号在广西师范大学文学院讲学，题目为“从中镇看‘典型的’美国文化研究”，主要介绍美国学者对中镇的持续研究（Muncie and Middletown）。目前具体时间地点未确定，待通知。以下是James教授的学术研究和作品简介，各位学人感兴趣者可继续关注。
作者简介：
James Connolly
Director, Center for Middletown Studies, and Professor of History
From Ball State University
Teaching and Research Specialties
Late 19th and early 20th-century, U.S. political; urban, ethnic
Biography
James Connolly is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University. He is the author of An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America (Cornell University Press) and The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925 (Harvard University Press). He also edited After the Factory: Reinventing America’s Industrial Small Cities (Lexington Books) and has published numerous articles and essays in edited volumes and journals such as Social Science History, the Journal of Urban History, and the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Connolly's research focuses on American urban, political, and ethnic history in the 1870-1930 period. He is currently at work on “What Middletown Read,” a study of print culture and urban life at the turn of the twentieth century, in collaboration with Frank Felsenstein.
Works
The triumph of ethnic Progressivism : urban political culture in Boston, 1900-1925
Cambridge, Mass. ：Harvard University Press, 1998.
Abstract：Progressivism, James Connolly shows us, was a language and style of political action available to a wide range of individuals and groups. A diverse array of political and civic figures used it to present themselves as leaders of a communal response to the growing power of illicit interests and to the problems of urban-industrial life. In showing that the several reform visions that arose in Boston included not only the progressivism of the city's business leaders but also a series of ethnic progressivisms, Connolly offers a new approach to urban public life in the early twentieth century.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
°Ph.D., Chinese literature, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York City, 1984
°M.Phil., Chinese literature, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, NYC, 1979
°M.A., Chinese literature, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York City, 1978
°B.A., Chinese, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, (Distinction; Magna Cum Laude), Yale Univ., 1976
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, SUNY-Albany (State University of New York at Albany), 1993-1995; 2002-. Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary, 1996-2002.
Visiting Research Fellow, Calgary Institute of the Humanities, University of Calgary,1995-1996.
Visiting Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies, University of Alberta. 1992-1993.
Full-time and Part-time Sessional Instructor, History Department, Faculty of General Studies and Department of Continuing Education, University of Calgary, 1989-1992;
Ph.D. dissertation:
"Yang Kuei-fei: Changing Images of a Historical Beauty in Chinese Literature." This thesis examines the influence of the conventions of different historical and literary genres upon images of the famous imperial consort in works from the 8th to the 17th centuries. Available through UMI, Ann Arbor (publication # 8505957).
BOOKS:
The Chinese Shadow Theatre: History, Popular Religion and Women Warriors.
Published by McGill and Queens University Press 2007. 343 pages.
Visions for the Masses: Chinese Shadow Plays. Published by Cornell East Asia Series,2004. 262 pages.
