Мерибет Эллиот Камерон: Қытай тарихының американдық зерттеушісі және Mount Holyoke колледжінің президенті.

American academic

Meribeth Elliott Cameron (May 22, 1905, Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada – July 12, 1997, Holyoke, Massachusetts) was an American historian of China and academic who served as the 13th (Acting) President of Mount Holyoke College from 1968 69. She was a professor of Chinese History at Mount Holyoke from 1948 1970. She served as Dean and briefly as Acting President in 1954 (during the period of President Ham) and 1966 (during the period of President Gettell).

Cameron graduated from Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, California in 1921 and was awarded a B. A. from Stanford University in 1925 and an M. A. in 1926. While at Stanford she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and studied the history of East Asia. She took a M. A. degree in history at Radcliffe College in 1927, then returned to Stanford to finish her dissertation, "The Reform Movement in China, 1898 1912", for which she was awarded a Ph. D. in History and Political Science in 1928. She then taught at Reed College (1928 1934), Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University (1934 1937). She was Dean of the College and Professor of history at Milwaukee Downer College (1941 1948), and in 1948 Academic Dean and Professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, where she remained until she retired in 1970. During these years she was a productive historian of China. She was one of the founding editors of Far Eastern Quarterly (later called The Journal of Asian Studies), of which she was book review editor 1941 51. She contributed to the basic reference for Qing dynasty history, Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1943). Among her journal articles and books were The Reform Movement in China, 1898 1912 and a co authored book, China, Japan and the Powers.