Sue Gronewold

Ph.D., Columbia University, Modern Chinese History
M.A., Columbia University, Modern Chinese History
M.A., University of Wisconsin, History and Education
B.A., University of Wisconsin, History and French

• History of Far Eastern Civilization
• Modernization of China and Japan
• China in the Twentieth Century
• Rise of Modern Japan
• The Asian Woman
• History of Diplomatic Relations in Asia
• Senior Seminar in History
•  Internship in History
• Western Civilization
• History of Civil Society in America
• History of Modern China
• History of Asian Genocide

Sue Gronewold has been a member of Kean’s History Department since 2001 and its chair 2008-2011, where she teaches courses on Asian history and is coordinator of the World History Program. She received her Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History from Columbia University and is the author of Beautiful Merchandise: Prostitution in China 1860-1936. She has completed her manuscript Encountering Hope: The Door of Hope Mission in Shanghai and Taipei 1900-2000,  and has written a number of journal articles, chapters in books, and reviews on subjects related to modern East Asia, particularly women, transnational encounters, and history and memory. Since 2012 she has been involved with a project at Amsterdam’s International Institute for Social History which chronicles and compares prostitution in 26 cities. Her chapter on the modern history of sex work in Shanghai was published in 2017 in their Brill Press book, Selling Sex in World Cities 1600 to the Present. Active since the establishment of Kean’s Holocaust and Genocide Program, she teaches, writes, and lectures frequently on genocide and human rights in Asia, most particularly on tribunals in the aftermath of atrocity, focusing especially on Bangladesh. She has long been involved in teacher training, particularly through Columbia University Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s Asia for Educators Project. With Kean’s Asian Studies Program, she co-directed three international conferences on China in the World, including a successful fashion symposium in March, 2017. She is active in many different professional organizations and on the executive boards of both the World History Association and the Asia in Latin America section of the Latin American Studies Association.