Rongwei is a senior majoring in international studies and history, with a concentration in cooperation and conflict. He was born and raised in Beijing, China, and has Mandarin as his native language. He has been studying Spanish for five years and studied abroad in Granada, Spain, during Fall 2022. He worked as an undergraduate research assistant for two years for Professor Ingu Hwang on the diplomatic normalization between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Korea and on the development of US-South Korea-Japan relations with regards to Asia-Pacific security. He is also working for Professor Prasannan Parthasarathi publishing a volume that discusses the history of modern India.
Rongwei has extensive writing and research experience, especially with regards to academic writing and archival research. He conducted research at Yale University on American Secretary of State Dean Acheson and at the National Archives and LBJ Library on America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
Rongwei is both the president of BC’s Global Conversations project and the president of History Club. He is also the recipient of both the Sophomore Scholar and the Dean’s Scholar awards and a member of the Phi Alpha Theta and Phi Beta Kappa honor societies. Rongwei is currently writing a Scholar of the College thesis project that re-examines the factors that led to America’s withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973.
Click to book online peer advising with Rongwei, or meet with him during his Spring 2024 Connolly House office hours (Wednesdays and Thursdays 1-3pm).
Quick facts:
- Senior majoring in IS and History with a concentration in Cooperation & Conflict
- From Beijing, China
- Speaks Mandarin and Spanish
- Sophomore Scholar (2022); Dean’s Scholar (2023); Phi Beta Kappa honor society (from junior year); Phi Alpha Theta honor society
- Studied abroad in Granada, Spain
- Worked as a research assistant for Professors Ingu Hwang and Prasannan Parthasarathi
- President of Global Conversations and the History Club
- Teaching experience abroad as student-teacher in the Colegio Regina Mundi
- Writing a Scholar of the College honors thesis on America’s withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973, to understand the conditions that bring wars to their end
Some favorite courses:
- Korean War (Prof. Hwang)
- Introduction to International Relations (Prof. Erickson)
- History of U.S. Foreign Policy I & II (Prof. Jacobs)
- Peace or War (Prof. Derber)
