Prof. Thomas G. Nimick Professor of History History thomas.nimick [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Prof. Nimick grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh PA, received a B.A. in French Language and Civilization from Princeton, and prepared in Chinese in 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. He joined the West Point faculty in 1993. Works on Ming dynasty administration and also the history of Presbyterian missionaries on the China coast in the 19th century. Teaching topics: East Asian history, Chinese history, Asian Warfare and Politics, South Asia (India, Pakistan, & Bangladesh), as well as participating in the redesign of the course on World Religions. 1980 Princeton University, A.B. in French Language and CultureSummers 1980 and 1981, Chinese Language School, Middlebury College1982 Chinese Literature Program, Fudan University, Shanghai, ChinaSummers 1987 and 1988, Japanese Language School, Middlebury College1993 Princeton University, M.A. and Ph.D. in East Asian Studies Research Interests Adminstration, Governance, Character Current Research Missionary experience in Ningbo China Selected Publications Local Administration in Ming China: The Changing Roles of Magistrates, Prefects, and Provincial Officials. Ming Studies Research Series, No. 5. Edward L. Farmer, Romeyn Taylor, Ann Waltner, eds. Minneapolis: Society for Ming Studies, 2008“Mapping the Background: The Uncertain Influence of the Ming State and Imperial Leadership.” In The Ming World, Kenneth M. Swope, ed. New York: Routledge, [in press] 2019.“When a Judge Becomes More than a Judge: Changes in Local and Regional Administration in the Ming Dynasty as Seen through the Role of the Prefectural Judge.” Ming Studies, no. 77 (April, 2018): 6-26.“The Selection of Local Officials Through Recommendation in Fifteenth-Century China,” in Toung Pao, no. 91 (2005): 125-182.“Missionary Women’s Outreach to Poor Women in China: Origins of the Industrial Class Strategy.” Journal of Presbyterian History (1997) 98, no. 1 (2020): 4–17.“The Romance of Mission: Mary E. Morrison in China, 1860-1876.” Journal of Presbyterian History (1997) 100, no. 2 (2022): 72–90.