A specialist in Japanese and Asian studies, Schneider joined the Knox faculty in 1992. "Professor Schneider's teaching and curricular thinking have benefited not only his own department, but the College as a whole," said Lawrence B. Breitborde, Dean of the College.
Since completing his doctorate, Schneider has published several article on Japanese history and is completing a book on the Japanese colonial empire, 1914-1931. He also is researching Japanese-Korean relations and has received several grants, including a Knox Faculty Initiative grant, which he has used acquire proficiency in the Korean language. He also helped plan Knox's new major in Integrated International Studies. During 1998-99, he will serve as resident director of the Japan Studies Program at Waseda University in Tokyo, a cooperative program offered by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, an educational consortium that includes Knox and several other Midwestern colleges.
Schneider earned his B.S. in chemistry at Michigan State University, an M.A. in Asian history and a Ph.D. in modern Japanese history at the University of Chicago.
Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,100 students from 42 states and 33 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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