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Dr. George Lawrence (Larry) Israel
478.471.2400
Professor
Credentials: Ph.D.
| Office Hours: | Spring 2025 - 8:30-12:30 Monday and Wednesdays |
| Locations: (Campus & Office) |
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| Website: | http://georgelisrael.com |
| Biography: | George L. Israel, Ph.D. (2008), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is Professor of History at Middle Georgia State University. He has published a monograph and articles on China, including Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming (Brill, 2014). He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and completed high school at Parkway Central. His B.A. in philosophy and biology was completed at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. |
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| Teaching and Research Interests: | George L. Israel teaches world and US history in the core for all undergraduate students, and upper-division courses in East Asian history. His primary research interest is the intellectual history of the Ming dynasty. |
| Courses: | World History US History Perspectives courses Pre-Modern and Modern Japan Traditional and Modern China Religions in World History Colonialism in World History |
| Education: (All institutions attended and degrees or credentials earned) | B.A., Biology and Philosophy, William Jewell College, 1988 Ph.D., History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. October 2008. |
| Publications and Scholarships: (Last 5 Years) | Monographs • Studying Wang Yangming: History of a Sinological Field. Kindle Publishing, 2025. • 陽明學之歐美傳播與研究 (The Dissemination of and Research on the School of Wang Yangming in Europe and the United States). Beijing: Xueyuan Chubanshe, 2022. • World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500. Dahlonega: University of North Georgia Press, 2016. Cowritten with Eugene Berger, Andrew Reeves, Charlotte Miller, Nadedja Williams, and Brian Parkinson. https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/history-textbooks/2/ • Doing Good and Ridding Evil in Ming China: The Political Career of Wang Yangming. Leiden: Brill, 2014. http://www.brill.com/products/book/doing-good-and-ridding-evil-ming-china-political-career-wang-yangming Articles • “Returning to the Root: The Formative Political Career and Intellectual Development of Nie Bao, 1487-1548.” World of the Orient no. 1 (2024): 145-172. https://oriental-world.org.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/711 • “Zhan Ruoshui zai Xiqiao shan (1517-1521): Sui chu tiren tianli [Zhan Ruoshui at Mt. Xiqiao, 1517-1521: ‘Wherever you are, witness Heaven’s reason’.”]. Ming shi yanjiu luncong [Essays on Research in Ming History]. Forthcoming, 2020. • “Zhan Ruoshui at his Dake Academy on Mt. Xiqiao, 1517-1521: Scholarship, Pedagogy, Philosophy.” Journal of World Philosophies 4, no. 1 (2019): 36-54. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/jwp/article/view/2642 • “Discovering Wang Yangming: Research in Europe and North America, 1600-1950.” Monumenta Serica 66, no. 2 (Dec. 2018): 357-389. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02549948.2018.1534356 • “Oumei Wang Yangming janjiu, 1900-1950 [Research on Wang Yangming in Europe and North America, 1600-1900],” Hanxue yanjiu [Journal of Sinology] vol. 25 (Fall and Winter, 2018). https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/750775586X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (see image of Table of Contents) • “The Transformation of the Wang Yangming Scholarship in the West, ca. 1960-1980.” Asian Philosophy 28, no. 2 (Apr. 2018): 135-156. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09552367.2018.1462584 • “Wang Yangming zhexue sixiang fazhan zhongqi de zhusuizhe [Wang Yangming’s Followers during the Middle Period of his Philosophical Development].” Yangming xue yanjue [Research on the School of Wang Yangming] vol. 3 (Jun. 2018): 213-225. • |
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