Joseph Yick

Professor Joseph Yick is a faculty member in the Department of History at Texas State University, holding the rank of Professor. His office is located at TMH-208, and he can be contacted via email at jy02@txstate.edu. He has been at Texas State since 1989 and previously taught at institutions including Auburn University-Montgomery, UC-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara City College, University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Baptist University.

He earned a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the history of Chinese communism, particularly the CCP-GMD struggle in Beiping-Tianjin during 1945-1949. His work has been recognized with awards such as the Texas State Presidential Seminar Award for his book Making Urban Revolution in China and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly Activities.

He served as the Ingram Professor of History at Texas State and held visiting roles at the University of Toronto’s Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library and the Asian Institute of the Munk Centre for International Studies. He has also been a research associate at Harvard University’s John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. Yick has held leadership roles, including president of the Southwest Conference of the Association for Asian Studies and editor of the Journal of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies.