William C. Kirby

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William C. Kirby is Geisinger professor of history and a scholar of Chinese history and culture at Harvard University and is the former Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. After a controversial four-year tenure in which he clashed both with the Harvard faculty and its President, Lawrence Summers, he announced on January 27, 2006 that he would resign as Dean.

[edit] Major publication

• Kirby, William C. Germany and Republican China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1984.

[edit] External links

• Homepage at Harvard