Alan T. Wood is a historian of China and world history. He is Professor Emeritus in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. A founding faculty member of the Bothell campus, which opened in 1990, he was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs there from 1995-1999. From 2006-2007 he served as Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington Tacoma. His books include Limits to Autocracy (University of Hawaii, 1995), World Civilizations (W.W. Norton, 1997), What Does It Mean to be Human?: A New Interpretation of Freedom in World History (Peter Lang, 2001), and Asian Democracy in World History (Routledge, 2004). He is married to Wei-ping Kuan Wood and has two children and three inexhaustibly active grandchildren.
