Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia (夏伯嘉; born 1955) is an American historian and the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor at

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

, where he teaches history and religious studies. His research interests are Catholic Renewal, anti-Semitism and Protestant Reformation.

Education

Hsia was born in Hong Kong and studied in the United States. He earned his B.A. in 1977 at

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeduca ...

and an M.A. in 1978 at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. He has also earned three degrees from

Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...

: an M.A. in 1979, an M.Phil in History in 1979, and a Ph.D in 1982. He became an American citizen in 1980.

Publications

*''Social Discipline in the Reformation: Central Europe, 1550-1750'' (Routledge, 1989) *''Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial'' (Yale University Press, 1992). *''The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770'' (Cambridge University Press, 1998). *''A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci 1553-1610'' (Oxford University Press, 2010).

References

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