Huping Ling (; born 1956) is a professor of history and past department chair at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, where she founded the Asian studies program. Her research focuses on Asian American studies, including immigration and ethnicity, assimilation and adaptation, family and marriage, feminism, employment patterns, and community structures. A Ford Foundation Prize-winning author, she has published eleven books and over hundred articles on Asian American studies, including immigration and ethnicity, assimilation and adaptation, transnationalism, family and marriage, employment patterns, and community structures. Education and career Ling began her career in teaching as a high school teacher in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, from 1974 through 1978. In 1982, she graduated from Taiyuan's Shanxi University first in her class with a bachelor's degree in history. From 1982-85, she worked as an assistant professor of history at Shanxi University. In 1985, she was a visiting scholar at the history department at Georgetown University. She earned her master's in 1987 at the University of Oregon, and completed her Ph.D at Miami University (1991). She began teaching as an assistant professor of history at Truman State University from 1991-1995. In 1996, she became associate professor of history and full professor in 2004. She is a visiting professor with the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China. She is the Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor by the Chinese Ministry of Education at Wuhan Theoretical Research Center of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and China Central Normal University in Wuhan. She also serves as: Consultant to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Guangdong Provincial Government. Consultant for the Female Writers Association in Shanxi Province. Member of the Board of Directors of Women Writers Association in Shanxi Province of the Chinese National Writers Association. Executive editor of the Journal of Asian American Studies, the official journal of the Association for Asian American Studies. For the same organization, she has served as the Board Director and Representative of the Midwest/Mountain/Canada Region" from 2001-2003. Since 1999, she has been part of the "Steering Committee as a History Caucus." She is the inaugural editor of the Rutgers University Press book series Asian American Studies Today. She has been a National Reviewer for The Choice, The Journal of Urban History, International Migration Review, The Journal of American Ethnic History, The Journal of American History for the Organization of American Historians, The Journal of the