Faculty Bio

Dave Hsiung

Dr. Charles R. and Shirley A. Knox Chair in History

Office Location: 100 I. Harvey Brumbaugh House
Phone Number: 814-641-3534

Personal Website: http://faculty.juniata.edu/hsiung/

David C. Hsiung earned a B.A. from Yale University (1983) and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan (1991). He has taught at Juniata College ever since, and now is the Charles and Shirley Knox Professor of History.

David Hsiung teaches the introductory "U.S. History to 1877" survey and the first-year writing course "College Writing Seminar," as well as advanced courses that examine the American Revolution, North American environmental history, local history, and modern American wars. He also offers a practicum that trains Juniata students to serve as judges for the regional competition of National History Day held on campus every spring. He also enjoys teaching with colleagues: with Dr. Paula Martin he has offered "Environmental Problem-Solving;" with Dr. Russell Shelley he has taught "Civil Rights and Songs;" with Dr. Ryan Mathur he has taught "Mining in the Americas;" and with Dr. Jay Hosler he has team-taught "Comics and Culture."

David Hsiung received Juniata College's 1995 Junior Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2007 Beachley Award for Distinguished Teaching. In 2000, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education named David Hsiung the Pennsylvania Professor of the Year. The Appalachian Studies Association and the University Press of Kentucky jointly conferred the 1996 Appalachian Studies Award on his book, Two Worlds in the Tennessee Mountains: Exploring the Origins of Appalachian Stereotypes (1997). With a long-term fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he spent the 2005-06 academic year at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, conducting research for a book on the environmental history of the American Revolution.

When not grading essays, advising students, sitting in meetings, presenting papers at conferences, speaking to alumni, or trying to figure out the computer, David Hsiung tries to stay in shape by running and playing basketball, but instead often winds up gorging himself on his wife Rachel's desserts and scampering after his very active children Benjamin and Rebecca.