Steven Leibo Ph.D. 1982 under the direction of Thomas L. Kennedy
Leibo just retired after a college teaching career that begin in 1973 and became full time in the fall of 1982 at a range of colleges from the University of Cincinnati to the State University of New York at Albany but largely as a professor of international history and politics at Russell Sage College in Troy, NY—a city known these days as the setting of the recent Gilded Age HBO series.
Especially exciting is the news regarding his Washington State University dissertation on the life of Prosper Giquel, supported by a Fulbright year in Paris in 1979-80 and eventually published by U.C. Berkeley. The book, Transferring Technology to China: Prosper Giquel and the Self-strengthening Movement, is now likely to be republished in both Chinese and French editions because Giquel’s career, specifically discussed by presidents Xi Jinping and Macon in public recently, has become a central historical element in improving Franco-Chinese relations in the 21st century.