JUNE TEUFEL DREYER is Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, where she teaches courses on China, U.S. defense policy, and international relations. Professor Dreyer has lectured to, and taught a course for, National Security Agency analysts, consults for organizations including the National Geographic and Centra Technology. She is a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a member of International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Formerly senior Far East specialist at the Library of Congress, Dr. Dreyer has also served as Asia policy advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations and as commissioner of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission established by the U.S. Congress. Dr Dreyer’s most recent book, Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations Past and Present, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. The tenth edition of her China’s Political System: Modernization and Tradition, is scheduled for publication in 2018. Professor Dreyer received her BA from Wellesley College and her MA and PhD from Harvard, and has lived in China and Japan and paid numerous visits to Taiwan. She has served as a United States Information Agency lecturer, speaking in fourteen Asia-Pacific states. Professor Dreyer has published widely on the Chinese military, Asian-Pacific security issues, China-Taiwan relations, Sino-Japanese relations, ethnic minorities in China, and Chinese foreign policy. In 2017, she received the University of Miami’s faculty senate award as Distinguished Research Professor.
Education
| 1973 | Ph.D. Government and Far Eastern Languages (joint degree), Harvard University |
| 1963 | East Asian Studies, Harvard University |
| 1961 | B.A. Political Science, Wellesley College |
Professional Experience
| 1979 - | Professor of Political Science, University of Miami |
| 2003 - 2004 | Director, University Honors Program, University of Miami |
| 2001 - 2006 | Member, U.S.-China Security Review Commission |
| 2001 - 2004 | Chair, Department of Political Science |
| 1979 - 1986 | Director, East Asian Programs and Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables Florida |
| 1980 - | Acting Director, Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami |
| 1978 - 1979 | Senior Far East Specialist, Federal Research Division, The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| 1975 - 1978 | Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. |
| 1972 - 1975 | Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio |
| 1970 - 1971 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. |
| 1966 - 1967 | Tutor and Teaching Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University |
Honors & Acknowledgements
Japan Institute for National Fundamentals award for best book of 2016
University of Miami Faculty Senate’s Distinguished Scholar award
Elected vice-president of the American Association for Chinese Studies
Consulted by Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting (MURC), Tokyo, on
the disputed islands in the East China Sea, Kurils, and Takeshima/Dokdo.
MURC is under contract to produce a study on this issue for the Office of the
Prime Minister, Japan.
Official invitee to inauguration of Tsai Ing-wen as president of Taiwan, June 2016
Member of International Observers Group for Taiwan Election of January
Faculty Adviser to the Rumsfeld Foundation
Participant in Track II diplomatic exercise, Beijing University, March 2015
Guest of Japanese government for interviews on Diaoyu/Senkaku islands Controversy, November 2014
Cooper Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami
Board of Advisers, Japan Forum, NBR
Center for Humanities Fellow, University of Miami
Board of Advisers, National Bureau of Asian Research/Woodrow Wilson Center
Board of Advisers, Leibniz-Institute fűr Globale and Regionale Studien, China Aktuell/Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Hamburg
Research Fellow, International Strategy Assessment Center, Washington, D.C.
Board of Directors, American Association for Chinese Studies, New York, New York.
Commissioner, United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Summer Research Grant, School of Business, University of Miami
Research Excellence Award, School of Business, University of Miami
Summer Research Grant, School of Business, University of Miami
Editorial Board, Orbis
Provost's Award for Scholarly Excellence, University of Miami
Research Excellence Award, School of Business, University of Miami
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia
Adjunct Professor of Asian-Pacific Studies, U.S. Air Force Special Operations School
Summer Research Grant, School of Business, University of Miam
Research Excellence Award, School of Business, University of Miami
Board of Editors, Journal of Contemporary China
Asia-Pacific Program Director, Global Strategy Council, Washington, D.C
Research Excellence Award, School of Business, University of Miami
Member, governing board of Security Studies Section, International Studies Association
Member, International Institute of Strategic Studies, London
Member, Executive Panel, Chief of Naval Operations, Department of Defense
Member, Board of Governors, The East-West Center, Honolulu. Chair, Program Committee and Member, Executive Committee, Board of Governors
Member, Board of Advisors, Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Chair, Program Committee, American Association for Chinese Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Chair, Program Committee, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C
Vice-Chair, Program Committee and Chair for China and Inner Asia Panels, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Fellow, The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University
Received $50,000 grant from Far Eastern Textile Ltd. to organize a conference entitled "Washington-Peking-Taipei: A Decade After Normalization," Southern Center for International Studies, Atlanta, Georgia, May 5-6 1988
1980-1982 Principal Investigator, Undergraduate International Studies Grant, U.S. Department of Education. $ 108,500
Miami University, Summer Research Grant
Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Social Sciences Research Council Grant
Miami University Summer Research Grant
Fellow, East Asian Institute, Harvard University
Harvard University Summer Research Grant
Harvard Travelling Fellow
Kendall Fellow of Radcliffe College
National Defense Foreign Language Fellowships for summer and academic years of 1962-1966
Radcliffe College Grant
Wellesley College Scholar
Ethnic minorities in China, Sino-Japanese relations, Chinese military modernization, China-Taiwan relations
Publications
June Teufel Dreyer Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations Past and Present (Oxford University Press. 2016).
June Teufel Dreyer China's Forty Millions: Minority Nationalities and National Integration in the People's Republic of China (Harvard University Press. 1976).
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