WILLIAM A. JOSEPH
Department of Political Science
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA 02481-8203
(781) 283-2201; Fax  (781) 283-3644
wjoseph@wellesley.edu
http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/wjhome.html

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., Stanford University, 1981 (Political Science)
  • M.A., Stanford University, 1971 (East Asian Studies)
  • B.A.,  Cornell University, 1969 (Government and Asian Studies)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College, 1993-present
  • M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations, 2000-03 [term chair]
  • Director, International Relations Program, Wellesley College, 1999-2003
  • Chair, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College, 1995-99
  • Associate Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College, 1986-93
  • Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College, 1980‑86
  • Lecturer, York University (Canada), 1978‑80
  • Teaching Assistant, Stanford University, 1970‑71; 1976‑78
  • Instructor, Teacher Education Courses on China, University of California at Berkeley Extension, 1973; Dominican College Summer Program, 1974; University of California at Santa Cruz Extension, 1975

TEACHING FIELDS        

  • Politics of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; Political Economy of East Asian Development; Political Economy of Third World Development; Communist and Post- Communist Systems; Revolutionary Movements; Vietnam War; Japanese Politics; Chinese Foreign Policy; International Relations of East Asia

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 1980‑
  • Contributing Editor, Current History, 1993-2003
  • Manuscript reviewer, University of California Press; Oxford University Press; Rowman & Littlefield; The China Quarterly.
  • Book Review Editor (for modern China) and member of the Editorial Board, The Journal of Asian Studies, 1987-90
  • Co‑organizer, Conference on "New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution," held at Harvard University, May 1987
  • Secretary‑Treasurer, New England Conference of the Association For Asian Studies, 1986-90
  • Program Committee Chair, Annual Meeting of the New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 1985
  • Grant Evaluator, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Bunting Institute
  • Board of Trustees, Boston‑Hangzhou Sister City Program, 1986‑89
  • Advisory Board, The Foundation for Books to China, 1987‑89
  • Academic Consultant, Boston‑Hangzhou Study Program, a project of the  Boston‑Hangzhou Sister City Program, 1980-84
  • Assistant Director, Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, 1974‑76
  • Project Associate, Bay Area China Education Project, Stanford University‑University of California at Berkeley, 1973‑74
  • Research Assistant, Stanford International Development Education Center, 1973
  • Research Coordinator, Tangshan‑Tientsin (North China) Project, Stanford University, 1971

PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Introduction to Politics in China. Editor. Under contract to Oxford University Press, expected publication, 2009.
  • Introduction to Comparative Politics -- Brief Edition. Editor, with Mark Kesselman and Joel Krieger; and author of unit on China, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, forthcoming.
  • Introduction to Comparative Politics, 4th edition. Editor, with Mark Kesselman and Joel Krieger; and author of unit on China, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
  • Introduction to Politics of the Developing World, 4th edition. Editor, with Mark Kesselman and Joel Krieger; and author of unit on China. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
  • The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, 2nd edition. Editor-in-Chief, Joel Krieger; Section Editor for Asia and author of articles on "China," and "Cultural Revolution." New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  • China Briefing: The Contradictions of Change.  Editor. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, in cooperation with The Asia Society, 1997.
  • China Briefing 1994, Editor.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.
  • China Briefing 1992, Editor. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.
  • China Briefing 1991, Editor. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.
  • New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution, Editor (with Christine Wong and David Zweig). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Contemporary China Series: 8, Harvard   Council on East Asian Studies, 1991.
  • Global Studies: China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong (2nd Edition), Editor. Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group, 1987.
  • The Critique of Ultra‑Leftism in China, 1958‑1981. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984. (Translated into Chinese and published in the People's  Republic of China by Dongnan University Press, Nanjing, 1989.)

Articles

  • "Dazhai and Daqing" and "Red and Expert" in Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism, edited by  Wang Kewen. New York: Garland Press, 1998.
  • "New Succession Politics in China," in Harvard International Review, Feb-Mar 1988.
  • "Foreword," in Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution by Gao Yuan, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. (The "Foreword" is an introductory essay   on the origins, evolution, and legacy of the Cultural Revolution.)
  • "A Tragedy of Good Intentions: Post‑Mao Views of the Great Leap Forward,"Modern China, October 1986
  • "China's Modernization of Mao," Current History, September 1986
  • "China's Relations with Chile Under Allende: A Case Study of Chinese Foreign Policy in Transition," Studies in Comparative Communism, Fall‑Winter 1985
  • "The Dilemmas of Political Reform in China," Current History, September 1985
  • "Some Perspectives on the Incorrect Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (with Sigrid Bergenstein), in Canada‑China, Summer 1980
  • "People in the People's Republic of China" in People in Change: East Asia,  Addison‑Wesley, 1975
  • "The United States and China," in Perspectives on United States History, Field Publications, 1975
  • "'Now Our Lives Are Guaranteed': A Report from China," in World Events (Chicago Council on Foreign Relations), October 1972
  • "A Post‑Summit 'Friendly Discussion' with China's Chou En‑lai," in World Events  (Chicago Council on Foreign Relations), June 1972
  • Book Reviews in American Political Science Review, Pacific Affairs, China Quarterly, The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, The China Journal, Choice

AWARDS                 

  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for College Teachers, 1993-94
  • Mellon Fellowship, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1983‑84
  • National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship (Chinese), Stanford University, 1969‑71; 1976‑77
  • Graduated with Distinction in All Subjects, Cornell University, 1969
  • Dean's List, Cornell University, 1967‑69

FOREIGN LANGUAGES     Chinese (Mandarin); French

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • American Political Science Association
  • Association for Asian Studies
  • New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
  • New England Modern China Seminar
  • ASIANetwork

WELLESLEY COLLEGE SERVICE

  • Faculty Director, Elisabeth Luce Moore '24 Wellesley-Yenching Program, 1999-2003
  • Director, International Relations Program, 1999-2003
  • Elected Member (At-large), Committee on Faculty Appointments, 1998-2001
  • Webmaster, Department of Political Science 1997-2005
  • Member, Trustee-Faculty Committee on Academic Affairs, 1998-2000
  • Member, Davis World Cultures Fund Committee, 1999-2003
  • Member, College Reaccredidation Steering Committee, 1996-99
  • Faculty Convener, Ad Hoc Committee on Calendar and Schedule, 1996-2000
  • Co-Director, Chinese Studies, 1986-90; 1997-2003
  • Department of Anthropology, Reappointments & Promotions Committee, 1996-99
  • Member, Task Force on the Multicultural Requirement, 1995-96
  • Member, Curriculum Overlap Group, 1995
  • Member, Task Force on Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning, 1994-95
  • Member, General Judiciary, 1994-97
  • Co-Director, Hewlett Program in International Studies. 1990-92
  • Director, Wellesley Washington Summer Internship Program, 1989-93
  • Japanese Studies Search Committee, 1987-88
  • Financial Aid Committee, 1988-90
  • Advisory Committee on Budgetary Affairs, 1986‑88 (Chair, 1986-87)
  • Ad Hoc Committee on Fiscal Resolution, 1986‑87
  • Committee on Faculty Benefits, 1982-84 (Chair, 1983‑84)
  • American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Wellesley ChapterExecutive Committee, 1983-84
  • President's Committee on Campus Daycare, 1982‑86
  • Reappointments and Promotions Committee, Department of Chinese, 1986‑89
  • Other Trustee Committees: Finance (1986-87), Trustee-Faculty Relations (1982- 84), Buildings and Grounds (1988-90)
  • Task Force on Administrative Services, 1990-91
  • Organizer, Alumnae Symposium on "The Rise and Demise of Communism," 1991