Education  

Ph.D. in Chinese Art History, University of Pittsburgh (2004)  

M.A. in Chinese Art History, University of Pittsburgh (1999)  

B.A. in Chinese Archaeology, Peking (Beijing) University (1997)  

Biography  

After a Paul Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian Institution in 2024-2005, Dr. Jiang became Assistant Professor of Art History in the Honors College, Florida Atlantic University (2005-2008) and Assistant Professor of Museum Studies at Southern University New Orleans (promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in May 2012).     

At Xavier, Dr. Jiang was Director of the Confucius Institute (2012-2020) and Interim Director, Center for Intercultural and International Programs (2018-2020). Under Dr. Jiang’s leadership as the University’s Senior/Chief International Officer, Xavier established a Study Abroad Endowment Fund in 2019. The University received the 2020 Diversity Abroad’s Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion in International Education Award, and the 2022-2024 IDEAS (Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students) Grant from the Department of State to increase study abroad participation. He was one of the inaugural U.S.-ASEAN University Connections Initiative Fellows, a White House Initiative in 2022. He is dedicated to serving students, faculty and staff, including guiding F-1 students, assisting J-1 scholars, and helping U.S. students in successfully applying for such prestigious scholarships as Benjamin A. Gilman, Critical Languages, and Frederick Douglass Scholarships.    

Dr. Jiang serves in the Publications and Resources Committee, AIEA (Association of International Education Administrators, 2022-2025). He was an AIEA Leadership Academy Fellow (2020), and a member of the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literacy Festival Board of Directors (2020-2023).   

Selection Publications  

2014 Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, Kerry Brown (Ed.), Great Barrinton. MA: Berkshire Publishing.  “Zhao Mengfu” (4000 words), pp. 852-863. In English.   

2013 “Xiao in Western Zhou Bronze Inscriptions and Filial Piety in Eastern Zhou Confucianism,” Collecting Volumes of Culture and Heritage Research, Fudan University Press, issue 6.  In Chinese.    

2009 Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, Linsun Cheng ed., Berkshire Publishing Group LLC. In English: “Sanxingdui” (1000 words); “Dong Qichang” (500 words); “Flower and Bird Painting” (1000 words); “Palace Painting” (500 words); “Tang Yin” (500 words); “Wang Mian” (500 words). In English.    

2009 Berkshire Encyclopedia of China, Linsun Cheng ed., Berkshire Publishing Group LLC. (Co-authoring with Sun Zhangfeng of the Luoyang Municipal Museum, China):  

“China’s Paleolithic Period” (2000 words). In English.    

2008 “On the Casting Technology of Ancient Bronze Drums in South China and Southeast Asia,” Archaeology, 6: 85-90.  In Chinese.  

2007 “A Reconsideration of the Social Function and Significance of Ancient Bronze Drums,” in Studies on the Baiyue Culture, vol. 1, Nanning: Guangxi Science and Technology Press, pp. 506-515.  In Chinese.   

2007 “On the Lingshan-type Bronze Drum from the Freer Gallery of Art,” in Guangxi Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology ed., Essays on Guangxi Archaeology, vol. 3, Beijing: Wenwu Press, pp. 560-571.  In Chinese.   

2005 “Sacred Vessels Buried: A Bronze Cache in Ancient China (11th-9th century BCE),” in Center 25, Record of Activities and Research Reports (June 2004 – May 2005), Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, pp. 105-8.  In English  

2004 “Statecraft and Cemetery in Early Dynastic China: Yu Funerary Arts in the Zhou,” Abstract of the dissertation, in Center 24, Record of Activities and Research Reports (June 2003 – May 2004), Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, pp. 95-97. In English.  

Select Recent Scholarly Presentations  

2023 “Reimagine Student Engagement: Increasing Male Students’ Participation in Education Abroad,” chair and panelist, Annual AIEA Conference  

2023 “Beyond Marginalization and Niche Representation: Asian-American SIOs’ Perspective on JEDI,” panelist, Annual AIEA Conference  

2022 “Short-Term Programs: An Internationalization Strategy to Diversify Education Abroad Participation,” Annual NAFSA Conference    

2021 “From Ancestral Worship to Pursuit of Immortality: Bronze Age to Pre-Buddhist Chinese Art,” New Orleans Museum of Art, virtual  

2021 “International Higher Education Leaders as Advocates and Agents of Change for social Justice,” Annual AIEA Conference, virtual