He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Florida where he worked under the direction of Marsha Bryant on an interdisciplinary dissertation that investigated U.S. Modernist transpacific exchanges during the era of Asian exclusion. Dr. McDougall’s teaching and research examines cultures of the twentieth century transpacific, and his research in this field has been published in North American academic journals and books with chapters appearing in recent collections, like American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter. More recently, he has co-edited and contributed to a collection examining globalized university education, The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education.