An internationally renowned historian and prolific award-winning writer, Huping Ling (令狐萍) is Professor of History Emerita, the founder of the Asian/Asian American Studies Program, and the past department chair at Truman State University. She is the Lifetime Achievement Award Winner 2024 Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), the Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Scholar Chair Professor of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Distinguished Honorary Professor at Lishui University, and a Visiting Professor of the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies at Jinan University. She is the funding and inaugural book series sole Editor-in-Chief Asian American Studies Today with Rutgers University Press, on the Editorial Board of Overseas Chinese History Study, the Overseas Chinese History Research Institution, Beijing, China, and served as the Executive Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS 2008-2012).