James Millward
School of Foreign Service
James Millward is a professor in the Department of History in the College of Arts & Sciences and in the School of Foreign Service. A member of the faculty committee for the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues, he joined the Georgetown faculty in 1996.
International activities include:
- Author of six books and over 25 scholarly articles and chapters on China and Central Eurasia
- Served on the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies; served on the Executive Board of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS); president of CESS (2010)
- National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Public Intellectuals Program Fellow (2005-2007)
June 15, 2025
News: China Revoked My Visa and Came to Regret It
In this op-ed for the New York Times, James Millward warns against the academic, economic, and strategic risks of the Trump administration's decision to “aggressively revoke” the visas of Chinese students studying in the United States.
July 11, 2024
News: China is Using Archaeology As a Weapon
November 29, 2022
News: China in Protest
September 4, 2018
News: The Other Political Correctness
August 30, 2018
News: What’s Behind China’s Mass Crackdown on Uighur Muslims?
April 27, 2022
China's Xinjiang Region: How Should the International Community Respond? Event
The United States and other democratic governments, as well as human rights organizations, have condemned China's repression of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other non-Han peoples in its nominally autonomous Xinjiang region through arbitrary detentions, mass…
February 11, 2019
"Reeducation" in Xinjiang Event
In this seminar Georgetown history professor Dr. James A. Millward explored current developments related to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and its Uighur minority group, drawing on his extensively researched article in the New York Review of…
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China's Xinjiang Region: How Should the International Community Respond? Video
The United States and other democratic governments, as well as human rights organizations, have condemned China's repression of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other non-Han peoples in its nominally autonomous Xinjiang region through arbitrary detentions, mass…