![]() ![]() At Northwestern he was the History Department chair, director of the Program of African Asian Languages, and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He taught at Stanford University, then accepted the position of teaching Chinese history at Northwestern University where he remained until 1989. ![]() He earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. He was a Fulbright fellow in France, 1950-1951 Ford Foundation fellow, 1958-1960 and a grantee of the American Council of Learned Societies - Social Science Research Council. After the war he continued his education on the GI bill, studied Russian, then Chinese on grants in Paris, Taiwan, and Japan. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois in 1949, and a Master of Arts from the same institution in 1950. He served as an ensign in the United States Navy, 1941-1946. Later he trained others in the use of radar. At the outset of World War II, he enlisted in the US Navy. Sheridan was born in Wilmington, Delaware. James Edward Sheridan (J– December 21, 2015) was a professor emeritus in the Department of History at Northwestern University and the author of a number of books on modern Chinese history, such as China in Disintegration: The Republican Era in Chinese History and the biography Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yu-Hsiang. Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang. ![]() ![]()
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