Michael S. Laver


Office: 412 CPS

Phone:  346-4058

E-mail: mlaver@uwsp.edu

Title:  Assistant Professor

Education:

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

M.A., University of Pennsylvania

B.A., Purdue University

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Dissertation:  "A Strange Isolation:  The Japanese, The Dutch, and the

Asian Economy in the Seventeenth Century"

Courses Taught:

History 102  World History Since 1500

History 215  East Asian Civilization to 1800

East Asian History, 1600-Present

Encounters East and West

Introduction to Chinese Civilization

Introduction to Japanese History

Specialty:  East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Memberships:

Association of Asian Studies

World History Association

American Historical Association

 

Awards:

University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Science Dissertation Fellowship, 2004-05

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), 2003-04

Visiting Researcher: Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2002-03