Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia (夏伯嘉; born November 15, 1955) is an American historian and the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor at

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, 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

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and an M.A. in 1978 at

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. He has also earned three degrees from

Yale Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges ch ...

: 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

*''The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany'' (Yale University Press, 1988) *''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

Pennsylvania State University faculty Swarthmore College alumni Yale University alumni 1955 births Harvard University alumni 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Living people Hong Kong emigrants to the United States American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub Members of Academia Sinica Historians of Christianity Scholars of antisemitism