Prof. Thomas G. Nimick, Ph.D.

Prof. Thomas Nimick is a professor of history in the Department of History & War Studies at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. He joined the West Point faculty in 1993.

Dr. Nimick grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. in French language and civilization from Princeton University. He studied Chinese at the Language Schools at Middlebury College before a stint as a foreign student and English instructor at Fudan University in Shanghai.

Upon his return, he joined the Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton to support work on a new Chinese language textbook. Courses in classical Chinese led to an interest in history, graduate work in East Asian studies at Princeton, and a Ph.D.