About Peg
Peg Christoff is a researcher, writer, lecturer, teacher, program developer and administrator with special interests in Asian connections to the United States and women’s history. In 1984, based on field research she conducted in Taipei, Beijing and Shanghai, Peg wrote a doctoral dissertation on Chinese modernization in science and technology. She interviewed Chinese scientists in the fields of acupuncture anesthesiology, earthquake engineering and esophageal cancer. Ten years later, through extensive oral interviews and archival research, she published short biographies of five women who were instrumental to the development of Chicago’s first Chinatown; as well as a monograph, Tracking the Yellow Peril: The INS and Chinese Immigrants in the Midwest.
In 2000, Peg began to administer public programs on Asian themes for such institutions as the Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), the John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 2008, Peg conducted extensive oral history interviews and wrote an interpretative essay on the life of a 90-year old Chinese woman writer.
Most recently, Peg completed a project under "Asia Matters for America" for the East-West Center. Her research has uncovered hundreds of historic people-to-people connections, going as far back as the late 1700s, between the United States and Asia. In her research, Peg draws upon the Library of Congress’s unparalleled curatorial expertise and extensive collections of books, online databases, manuscripts, maps, prints, photographs and sound recordings; and participates in the Women’s History Discussion Group and the Asian Division Friends Society.
Peg received a B.A. in international relations (IR) from the University of Minnesota; and a M.A. and Ph.D., also in IR, from the American University in Washington, D.C. Early in her career (1984-1992), for Boston University and the University of Cincinnati, she taught Chinese history and politics and international communication to hundreds of graduate and undergraduate students.
For my two-page resumé, click here.
For the "no holds barred," 7-page c.v. that lists all of my publications, click here.
