MSU professor earns grant to lecture in China

The university trains China’s future diplomats and is the only higher-learning institution in the country under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ guidance.

“I requested this assignment because the astounding rise of China is unparalleled in world history, and it is important to help influence the future trajectory the country will take,” Hickey said in an MSU news release.

Hickey also has agreed to deliver guest lectures at more than a dozen Chinese universities on topics ranging from Sino-American relations to the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

The Fulbright Program is the United States’ flagship international educational exchange project, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Hickey joined Missouri State University in 1991 and serves as director of the school’s graduate program in international affairs. For the last two years, Hickey has organized international symposiums at MSU to assess topics associated with China and Taiwan. He recently returned from Taipei, where he interviewed Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian about China’s recent call for a peace agreement with Taiwan.