Zach Fredman

Zach Fredman is historian of U.S.-East Asian relations and modern China. He is the author of The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941-1949 (University of North Carolina Press, 2022) and co-editor of Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937-1949 (Cambridge University Press, 2024). His new book project examines the U.S. military’s rest and recreation (R&R) program in Asia, Hawaii, and Australia during the Vietnam War. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include courses in the Global China Studies and Humanities majors, the common core, historical methods, and the histories of U.S. foreign relations and rock music.

Fredman has published articles, essays, and book chapters in numerous venues, including Diplomatic History, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Modern American History, The Journal of Modern Chinese History, The Washington Post, The China Daily, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2017, he received the Edward M. Coffman First Book Manuscript Prize from the Society for Military History and the Betty M. Unterberger Dissertation Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is also a recipient of an Apereo Atlas Teaching Award for his work on the DKU core course China in the World

Fredman has a B.A. in history from the University of Arizona, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Boston University. Prior to joining Duke Kunshan, he held postdoctoral fellowships at Dartmouth College and Nanyang Technological University.

傅知行是一位专注于美国与东亚关系及现代中国历史的历史学家。他著有《痛苦的联盟：美国军人与中国的占领，1941-1949》（The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941-1949，北卡罗来纳大学出版社，2022年），并合编了《不安的盟友：草根层面的中美关系，1937-1949》（Uneasy Allies: Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937-1949，剑桥大学出版社，2024年）。他的新书项目研究的是越南战争期间，美国军队在亚洲、夏威夷和澳大利亚的休假与娱乐（R&R）计划。他在昆山杜克大学的教学兴趣涵盖全球中国研究、人文学科专业的课程设置、通识核心课程、历史研究方法以及美国对外关系史和摇滚音乐史。

傅知行在众多期刊和媒体上发表过文章、随笔以及书籍章节，包括《外交史》（Diplomatic History）、《外交与治国术》（Diplomacy and Statecraft）、《现代美国史》（Modern American History）、《现代中国历史学刊》（The Journal of Modern Chinese History），以及《华盛顿邮报》、《中国日报》和《高等教育纪事报》。2017年，他荣获军事史学会（Society for Military History）颁发的爱德华·M·科夫曼首部书稿奖（Edward M. Coffman First Book Manuscript Prize）和美国对外关系历史学家学会（Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations）颁发的贝蒂·M·安特伯格论文奖（Betty M. Unterberger Dissertation Prize）。此外，因他在昆山杜克大学核心课程“中国与世界”中的贡献，他还获得了 Apereo Atlas 教学奖。

傅知行拥有亚利桑那大学的历史学学士学位，以及波士顿大学的历史学硕士和博士学位。加入昆山杜克大学之前，他曾在达特茅斯学院和南洋理工大学获得博士后研究基金，并从事相关研究工作。