Dalvin D. Tsay

With over a decade of post-secondary academic training and research-level competency in five languages, I am an aspiring intellectual historian of modern China, focusing specifically on the development of a culturally-specific Chinese disability discourse from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.

• U.S. Department of State
• Fulbright U.S. Student Study/Research Grant Recipient

- Dissertation research at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History: Classical Antiquity, University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA]

• The Roman Republic HIST 114A
• The Roman Empire HIST 114B
• Late Antiquity/Byzantine Empire HIST 114C
• Introductory Latin LAT 1
• Intermediate Latin LAT 2
• Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1525 HIST 119D
• Medival Europe, 400 - 1000 HIST 121A
• Chinese Art History ARTH 56B
• Historical Theory and Research Methods HIST 97D
• North Africa: From the Muslim Conquest to 1578 HIST 108A
• Certificate, Level 4: Advanced Chinese II, Chinese Language and Literature

Middlebury College

• Advanced Chinese II CHNS 3401A-3404A

Master of Arts (M.A.), Primary degree focus: Late Imperial China; Ancillary fields: Medieval Europe, Middle East, California State University, Los Angeles

• Traditional Chinese Historiography HIST 598
• Seminar - Historical Research and Writing HIST 595
• Traditional China HIST 494A
• Modern China HIST 494C
• Classical Age of Islamic Civilization HIST 419
• Seminar - Middle Eastern History HIST 522
• Seminar - History of the Middle Ages HIST 520
• The Early Middle Ages HIST 421
• The Later Middle Ages HIST 422
• Seminar - Recent Asian History HIST 591

Master of Arts (M.A.), Asian Studies (Chinese Studies), University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

• First Semester Intermediate Chinese CHN 301
• Second Semester Intermediate Chinese CHN 302
• Second Semester Classical Chinese CHN 660
• Introduction to Classical Chinese CHN 461
• Contemporary China: China Now ASAN 651
• Modern Chinese Intellectual History HIST 417
• Graduate Research in Asian Studies ASAN 750C
• Culture and Urban Form in Asia ASAN 636
• Graduate Research Methods in Asian Studies ASAN 600C
• Chinese Political Economy ASAN 308
• Ethnic Nationalism in Asia ASAN 627

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), History: Late Imperial China, History of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Thinking Historically HIST 700
• Introduction to Asian History HIST 720
• Independent Study/Graduate Study HIST 899
• Women's History/Gender Theory HIST 730
• Crafting a Historical Project HIST 900

Book Review - Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China

• Perspectives: A Journal of Historical Inquiry, Vol. 40
• China and the Christian faith share a long history in which both, at different times and under different circumstances, sought to either coexist or be at open odds with one another. For over a thousand years, Christianity in China experienced acceptance and rejection, as a steadfastly Confucian Chinese world struggled to make sense of this strange, foreign religion. A truly Chinese form of the faith arose only in the early twentieth century.

Book Review - Cold War Holidays: American Tourism in France

• Perspectives: A Journal of Historical Inquiry, Vol. 38
• The Franco-American relationship in the years immediately following the Second World War proved a multifaceted phenomenon. Its implications greatly impacted the development of postwar American foreign policy and, by extension, the Euro-American journey towards modernity.

The Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Teaching Assistant, Peter Filene Fund for Creative Teaching in the Department of History at UNC-Chapel Hill

• May 2025
• Presented annually to two (2) graduate students who exhibit originality and acumen in undergraduate teaching, on the strength of undergraduate student nominations.

Fulbright U.S. Student Study/Research Grant, Fulbright Taiwan

• August 2022-June 2023
• The Core Fulbright Student Study/Research Program worldwide offers opportunities for over 850 U.S students and 4,000 non-U.S. students. These include study, degree-seeking, and research awards. Between Taiwan and the U.S. there are approximately 40, mostly degree seeking, students who receive a grant each year, 15-20 Americans and 20-25 Taiwanese.

Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Fellowship, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

• August 2017-May 2022
• The Foundation’s grants to leading research universities and institutes for advanced study seek to help institutions train the next generation of faculty in the humanities, strengthen humanities research, and renew and broaden disciplines, research areas, and curricula. Although some grants support projects that are specific to individual institutions, many are ranged within broader initiatives that encourage participating universities to exchange information about research outcomes and institutional practices. Through its grant-making, the program aims to strengthen the entire system of higher education in the humanities, and enable lesser-resourced institutions to participate fully in it.

Starr Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Asian Studies, The Cornelius V. Starr Foundation of New York

• April 2016
• The Starr Foundation was established in 1955 by Cornelius Vander Starr, an insurance entrepreneur who founded C.V. Starr & Co. and other companies later combined by his successor, Maurice R. Greenberg, into what became the American International Group, Inc. Mr. Starr, a pioneer of globalization, set up his first insurance venture in Shanghai in 1919. He died in 1968 at the age of 76, leaving his estate to the Foundation. The Starr Foundation makes grants in a number of areas, including education, medicine and health care, human needs, public policy, culture and the environment., The purpose of this fund is to assist students in Asian studies at the School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa with field study expenses, summer language study, research or conference travel and general study expenses.

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (2015 - 2016), U.S. Department of Education

• The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships program provides allocations of academic year and summer fellowships to institutions of higher education or consortia of institutions of higher education to assist meritorious undergraduate students and graduate students undergoing training in modern foreign languages and related area or international studies.

Special Recognition in Graduate Studies, California State University, Los Angeles: College of Arts and Letters

• April 2013, April 2014
• Students who receive Special Recognition in Graduate Studies have demonstrated superior scholastic achievement by maintaining a grade point average of 3.8 or higher in 80% or more of their required program and have received special recommendation by their department or division.