Associate Professor of History
Asian Studies Director
- Office: 304M Humanities and Social Sciences Building
- Phone: 724-357-4066
- Email: baumler@iup.edu
Online Office Hours
- MTWRF: 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. via email and Zoom
Education
- PhD, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1997)
Academic Interests
- Modern Chinese History: opium, public health, aviation, gender, military
Profile
Professor Baumler is the department’s specialist on China and also teaches classes on Japanese and Asian history. He is currently working on a project on the history of aviation in China. He also serves as coordinator of the Asian Studies Program. His
publications include:
“Masculinity, Femininity, Sacrifice, and Celebrity during China’s War of Resistance: Telling the Lives of the Aviators Yan Haiwen (1916-37) and Lee Ya-Ching (1912-98)” Nan
Nü :Men, Women and Gender in China 22:1 (Spring 2020): 70-115
Routledge Handbook
of Revolutionary China (editor) New York: Routledge, 2019
“Keep Calm and Carry On: Airmindedness and Mass Mobilization during the War of Resistance.” Journal of Chinese Military
History 5.1 (June, 2016): 1–36.
Worse Than Floods and Wild Beasts: The Chinese and Opium Under the Republic Albany: State University Of New York Press, 2007.
Download a full version of Baumler’s curriculum vitae in PDF format.
Spring 2020 Courses
- ASIA 200 - Introduction to Asian Studies
- HIST 395 - Introduction to Historical Research
- HIST 434 - The History of Modern China
Fall 2020 Courses
- HIST 198 - Explorations in Global History
- HIST 206 - History of East Asia
- HIST 433 - History of Early Modern China