Danian Hu

Danian Hu is an Assistant Professor for the History Department and Asian Studies Program at the City College of New York, CUNY. Dr. Hu was educated in Beijing Jiaotong University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Case Western Reserve University before he received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2001, specializing in the history of science and modern Chinese history.

Dr. Hu has taught at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Morgan State University successively before joining the City College of New York. At City College, he teaches Einstein and His World, East Asian science and technology, Nuclear Weapons Programs in Asia, History of the Cultural Revolution, Chinese Civilization, and World Civilization. He is also member of the History of Science Society, American Physical Society, and Chinese Association of the History of Science and Technology.

Dr. Hu’s current research interests include the history of modern physics, the history of science and technology in modern China, and scientific exchanges between China and Japan, China and the West in the 20th century. His first book, China and Albert Einstein, has been published in March 2005 by Harvard University Press.