Dian Murray is currently a Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Her interests include Modern Chinese history, underground organizations and religion, and Chinese medicine.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1979. (Modern Chinese
History). Dissertation: Sea Bandits: A Study of Piracy in Early 19th Century
China.
M.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1974. (Modern Chinese History).

B.A., Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, 1971. (History, Asian Studies,
Honors).


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor of History, University of Notre Dame, May 1994-Present.
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of Arts and
Letters, University of Notre Dame, August 1991-August 2001
Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame, May 1988-May
1994.
Assistant Professor of History, University of Notre Dame, January 1984-88.

BOOKS (PUBLISHED)

The Origin of the Tiandihui: The Chinese Triads in Legend and History, in
collaboration with Qin Baoqi, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810, Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1987. A translation into Chinese by Liu Ping was published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1997.
 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS

Association for Asian Studies and Promotions
Phi Beta Kappa
American Historical Association
The South Bend Zen Society
Member of WVPE Community Advisory Board


SELECT HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Travel Grant from the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies of the
American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science
Research Council, October 1998.
Committee of Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of
China, Summer 1984.
Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard
University, 1981-82.
Social Science research Council Dissertation Write-up Funds,
July-December, 1977.
Social Science Research Council and Fulbright Hays Doctoral
Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowships, 1975-77.