Name: Chris Connolly
Position: Dr/Lecturer
T: 353 (0)21 4902640
F: 353 (0)21 4903825
E: chris.connolly@ucc.ie
Biography
Dr. Chris Connolly is a native of County Antrim and joined U.C.C. in September 2007 as Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at both the Irish Institute of Chinese Studies and the Department of History. He received his B.A. in Oriental Studies (Chinese) from the University of Cambridge in 2002, and his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2007 with a thesis entitled ‘Barbarians in the South: China’s Vietnam Policy, 1966-73’. In 2006 he was a visiting scholar at the George Washington University in Washington D.C. His research interests are 20th century Chinese foreign policy, China’s relations with Southeast Asia and the United States, and China in the Cold War.