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 and 2 in the Honors College with great success. King-White has an active research program focused on Physical Cultural studies. In addition to delivering over 100 research presentations, he has published 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, 19 book chapters, co-authored 2 books, co-edited 1, and edited another. He has helped numerous undergraduate research endeavors through the Bridges to Baccalaureate and TIGURS programs, as well as several independent studies. Currently, he represents the USM faculty concerns to and with the Board of Regents, Chancellor, and Presidents as the Chair of the Council of University System Faculty.