Faculty Fellows

Gilbert Chen joined the History Department in 2019. In the same year, he earned his Ph.D. in History from the Washington University in St. Louis for his dissertation, “Living in this World: A Social History of Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Nineteenth-Century Western China.” Dr. Chen studies the social, religious, and gender history of Chinese society during the late imperial era. Currently, he is working on a book manuscript project, tentatively titled Manly Monks: Sex, Family, and Community in Late Imperial China, investigating the construction of Buddhist monastic masculinity in the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). Drawing on monastic literature, popular culture, and legal archival research, Manly Monks takes seriously how ordinary monks negotiated masculine identities that straddled different normative gender regimes.

Dr. King-White earned his Ph.D. in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008. Since then he has taught 10 courses in Towson’s Sport Management Program with great success. King-White has led 4 study abroad programs to San Juan, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and the United Kingdom while planning for a new one in Athens, Greece. Ryan is also a productive researcher and has 7 peer-review journal articles, 6 book chapters and over 40 academic presentations to his name. Notably he won the Sociology of Sport 2010 journal article of the year, and had an article designated as For the Sociology of Sport spotlight article in 2012. Dr. King-White, also focuses on alumni development and hosts an annual fundraiser golf tournament to supplement study abroad programming and a cook-out for top graduating seniors.