CURRICULUM VITAE
Department of History and School of International Studies
University of the Pacific
3601 Pacific Avenue
Stockton, CA 95211
Telephone [office] (209) 946-2804
Telephone [dept.]: (209) 946-2145
Telephone [fax]: (209) 946-2318
Telephone [home]: (209) 466-6951
Email: grohlf@pacific.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modern China (1800 to the present)
The People’s Republic of China (1949 to the present)
Western China and Ethnic Minorities (Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia)
Modernization and State-building in the Twentieth Century
Comparative Frontiers
Empires and Imperialism
PUBLICATIONS
Building New China, Colonizing Kokonor: Population Resettlement to Qinghai in the 1950s (book manuscript under consideration for publication)
Review of Chinese Provincial Leaders, by Zhiyue Bo China Information ,
Vol. 18 no. 1, 2004: 143-145.
“Dreams of Oil and Fertile Fields: The Rush to Qinghai in the 1950s,”
Modern China: An International Quarterly of History and Social Science vol. 29, no. 4, 2003: 455-489.
Review of China Beyond the Headlines , edited by Timothy Weston and
Lionel Jensen, China Information, vol XVI no. 1, 2002, pp. 159-160.
Review of Prospects for Sustainable Development in the Chinese
Countryside , by Richard Sanders, China Information , vol. 15 no. 2, 2001.
Review of Cold War in the High Himalayas: The USA, China and South Asia in the 1950s , by S. Mahmud Ali, China Information , vol. XV no. 1 (2001), pp.197-200.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2001-2002
2000-2001
Spring 2000
Fall 1999
Fall 1999
1997-98
Fall 1996
1995-96
1994-95
Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific
Visiting Assistant Professor, California State University,
Stanislaus
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
Visiting Assistant Professor, California State University, Hayward
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
Visiting Scholar, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, Qinghai Province,
People’s Republic of China
Graduate Instructor, University of Iowa
Teaching Assistant, University of Iowa
Research Assistant, Department of History, University of Iowa
COURSES TAUGHT
Modern China (1800 – present)
History of Chinese Civilization
East Asian Civilization I & II
Modern Japan (1800 – present)
Cross-Cultural Training I
Perspectives on World History
Social History of Modern Japan
Creativity and Knowledge
Mentor I, Mentor II
Twentieth Century Crises: A World History
Modern Tibet and the Tibet Question
Southeast Asia and the West
PRESENTATIONS
Moderator for Senator Suon Khieu, Cambodia Today, A Round Table Forum for Students, Faculty, Staff and Community, March 9, 2004, Sponsored by School of International Studies, Asian Studies, and OASIS, George
Wilson Hall
“Changing Women’s Lives in China” School of International Studies
Community Lectures, March 22, 2004
“Save Tibet? History and Politics on the Roof of the World” Rangzen – The
Pacific Tibet Alliance, February 3, 2004
Presenter and Moderator , “Roundtable: Filipino Regiments in American and
Philippine History,” February 22, 2003 for the U.S. premiere of “Untold
Triumph: A Portrait of the Filipino-American Regiment in World War II
“Long Live Chairman Mao!” UOP Faculty Soapbox Lecture Series
October 31, 2002
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“Helping Others Modernize in the 1950s: Youth Volunteering in World
History” Conference of the World History Association, August 15-18,
2002, Seoul National University, South Korea
“National Security and Agricultural Expansion in Qinghai in the 1950s”
Chinese Military History Society conference, May 11, 2002
Kansas State University
“Were There volunteers in Mao’s China? Going to the Neediest Places in the
Motherland in Comparative Perspective” International Conference
Commemorating the United Nations Year of the Volunteer, November
17, 2001, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
“Settlement Policies to Qinghai in 1956-1960” Sinologisches Seminar der
Universität Heidelberg, February 5, 1998
“The Chinese West and the Chinese State.” Center for Asian and Pacific
Studies, University of Iowa, March 11, 1996
“Pastoralism, Highland farming and the Extractive Economy in Qinghai: The
Northwest and the Nation.” Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs,
October 11-13, 1996.
UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Faculty Mentor , UOP Founder’s Scholars Program
Member, University Financial Aid & Admissions Committee
Member, Faculty Research Committee
Member, Asian Studies Executive Committee
Member, Asian Studies Board
Member, Asian Studies Curriculum Committee
Chair, Asian Studies Fellowship Committee
Help maintain History Department web page (Web Lackey)
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Coordinated History Department Assessment Plan 2001-2003
Codirector, “Scholars and Warriors in East Asia” A Seminar for History, Geography, and World Literature Teachers Offered by San Joaquin Global Education
Project, June 21 – 25, 2004
Facilitator, Cambodia Today: A Roundtable Forum, School of International Studies
March 9, 2004
Presentation to Tracy High School’s Institute for Global Commerce and Government
February 23, 2004
Facilitator, Region 6 California Subject Matter Projects, “Fall Educators’ Faire, 2003”
October 18, 2003
Organizer, “Asia Day 2003 Celebrating Asia and Asian Heritage”
Co-facilitator, session on intercultural communication
UOP Student Leadership Conference
Co-facilitator, session on intercultural communication
2003
Sept. 27, 2003
UOP Multicultural Student Association Retreat
UOP Asian Film Festival Presenter
Instructor, GLOBE Project seminar for San Joaquin County 6-12 school teachers
Sept. 6, 2003
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FELLOWSHIPS / HONORS / GRANTS
2004 University of the Pacific CAPD Grant to attend ASIANetwork conference
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1998-1999
Eberhardt University Priorities Award, “Internationalizing the Campus with
A Larger Asian Studies Presence”
Scholarly / Artistic Activity Grant, “Archival Research on Population
Resettlement from Henan in the 1950s”
Asian Studies Curriculum Development Grant
“Improving Geographical Knowledge of Asia Through Raised Relief Wall
Maps”
Curriculum Development Grant “Adding Korean and Malaysian Components to COP’s Asian Studies Curriculum”
Freeman Foundation Four Year Award to support Asian
Studies
University of the Pacific CAPD grant to attend the ASIANetwork conference
“Promoting Asian Studies in Undergraduate Education”
Stanford East Asia National Resource Center Travel Grant
Seashore Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate College, University of Iowa
1997-1998
1997-1998
T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Award, Graduate College,
University of Iowa
Lawrence Lafore Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, University of
Iowa
Fall 1996
1996-1997
Outstanding Instructor, Fall 1996, University Greek Women
Dissertation Research Grant, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Iowa
Summer 1995 Stanley Summer Language Scholarship, University of Iowa
EDUCATION
1999 Ph.D., Modern Chinese History, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Dissertation Title
“Agricultural Resettlement to the Sino-Tibetan Frontier, 1950-1962”
Comprehensive Exam Fields
Modern China, Modern Japan and the American Frontier
1993 M.A., University of Michigan, Center for Chinese Studies: History
Thesis Title
“The Militarization of the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier during the
Reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty”
1988 B.A., Luther College, Decorah, IA
Major: English