Prof. Thomas G. Nimick, Ph.D. Professor of History History & War Studies thomas.nimick [at] westpoint.edu About Education Prof. Thomas Nimick is a professor of history in the Department of History & War Studies at the United States Military Academy, where he joined the faculty in 1993.He grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a bachelor's degree 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 doctorate. Ph.D., East Asian Studies - Princeton UniversityM.A., East Asian Studies - Princeton UniversityA.B., French Language and Culture - Princeton University