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.