Dr. Henry Antkiewicz, an ETSU faculty member since 1988, is Professor of History. He specializes in Russian and Eastern and Central European history as well as East Asian History.  He has been to China a half dozen times, most recently for a month in 2004 on a Fulbright-Hays Seminar on China entitled:  From the Silk Road to the Pudong New Area.  This study trip looked at history and economic development from ancient China’s trade with the Eurasia up to today’s global trade centered on Shanghai’s new financial district of Pudong.  Dr. Antkiewicz has lectured or done research in China at Anhui University in Hefei and the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong; in Mongolia at the Institute of Asian and International Studies of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in Ulaanbaatar; in Japan at Ibaraki University in Mito, and Chuo University in Tokyo; in Afirca at the University of Zambia as well as the National Archives of Zambia in Lusaka, the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the University of Nairobi, Kenya; and in Poland at the University of Warsaw and Warsaw’s Central School of Planning and Statistics.  View Dr. Antkiewicz's Curriculum Vitae.

Dr. Weixing Chen is a professor of political science at East Tennessee State University. He currently directs the International Studies Minor Program at ETSU. He was the recipient of the 2003 ETSU Distinguished Faculty Award for Research. He served as president of the Association of Chinese Political Studies in the United States between 2002 and 2003 and currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Chinese Political Science, Cross-Strait and International Affairs Quarterly, and the Journal of Race and Policy. He is also a Guest Professor at Shandong University and Shandong Normal University in China. He was a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2004 and a visiting research fellow with East Asian Institute of at the National University of Singapore in 2001. Dr. Chen is the author and co-author of four academic books. He has also published articles in various national and international professional journals and contributed chapters to a number of books. His research interests include Chinese politics and international politics, and his teaching interests lie in international relations, international studies, world politics, Chinese politics, and East Asian politics.  View Dr. Chen's Curriculum Vitae.