Prof. Thomas G. Nimick Professor of History History & War Studies thomas.nimick [at] westpoint.edu About Education Prof. Nimick grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh PA, received a B.A. in French Language and Civilization from Princeton, and prepared in Chinese in the Language Schools at Middlebury College before a stint as a foreign student and English instructor at Fudan University in Shanghai. Upon his return he joined the Chinese Linguistics Project at Princeton to support work on a new Chinese language textbook. Courses in Classical Chinese led to an interest in history, graduate work in East Asian Studies at Princeton, and a Ph.D. He joined the West Point faculty in 1993. A.B. in French Language and Culture- Princeton UniversityM.A. and Ph.D. in East Asian Studies - Princeton University