Advisory Council

2007-2008 Council Members

Thomas Burkman, Asian Studies

Research interests include: Japan's relationship to world order in the decades of the 1920s and 1930s; Japanese history; Chinese history and civilization; and Korean history.

Thomas Burrows, Center for the Arts

Charles D'Aniello, Lockwood Library

Roger Des Forges, History

Research interests include: Chinese cultural, political, and social history; Chinese myth, history, and historiography; the founding and consolidation of the Qing dynasty; Chinese history and civilization in comparative and global perspectives.

Elaine Howard Ecklund, Sociology

Research interests include: Race; Immigration; Religion; Culture; and Methods (Qualitative and Survey).  

David Engel, Law School

Research interests include: law and society in the United States and in other countries, particularly Thailand; injuries and social change in Thailand; and the significance of cultural practices and legal consciousness for the workings of law and legal institutions.

Rebecca French, Law School

Research interests include: Tibetan legal codes.

Junhao Hong, Communication

Research interests include: International Communication; Media and Society; Communication/Information Technology; and Intercultural Communication.

Bingyi Huang, Visual Studies

Research interests include: Chinese archeology; and contemporary Chinese art and cinema.

Tsan Huang, Linguistics

Research interests include: Perception, phonology, and Mandarin Third Tone Sandhi; Tonal interaction and tonal realization in Rugaohua; Language-specificity in speech perception; and the Perception of VC transition and historical vowel shift in Rugaohua.

Jeri Jaeger, Dean's Office

Research interests include: phonetics; phonology; language acquisition: psycholinguistics: and neurolinguistics.

Rajiv Kishore, Management Science

Research interests include: improving organizational and IT performance through the effective management of global IT and services outsourcing projects; technology adoption and implementation; and agile methods for business process analysis and integration.

EunHee Lee, Linguistics

Research interests include: natural language semantics; second language acquisition; and the structure of the Korean language.

Kristen Schultz Lee, Sociology

Research interests include: Gender and the Life Course; Sociology of the Family; Aging; Education; and Japan.

Jeannette Ludwig, Romance Languages & Literatures

Research interests include: Second Language Acquisition; History and Structure of French; World Religions; and Asian Religions.

Susan Moynihan, English

Research interests include: Asian American Literature & Culture; Autobiography Studies; American Studies; and Asian American life writing.

Yoshiko Nozaki, Education

Research interests include: Critical Asia literacy; educational reforms and history textbooks in Japan; and History, testimony, and the Japanese controversy over "comfort women".

Jessie Poon, Geography

Research intersts include: Regionalism and trading blocs; Trade, investment and finance; Economic and regional development; Political Economy of Asia; Asian Business Networks; and Globalization and multinationals in Asia.

Mitsuaki Shimojo, Linguistics

Research intersts include: Cognitive and functional properties of Japanese grammar; Lexical-semantic and psycholinguistic aspects of categorization in Japanese; and Japanese syntax in conversation.

Ramya Sreenivasan, History

Research interests include: Gender history; early modern South Asia; colonialism and modernization; historiography and historical memory in South Asia; and Modernization and culture in colonial princely India (Rajasthan).

Kristin Stapleton, Asian Studies

Research interests include: Urban politics and administration; the history of Chinese family life; humor in history; and the place of non-U.S. history in American intellectual life.

Machiko Tomita, Occupational Therapy

Research interests include: the effectiveness of e-health to provide health support for self-management of chronic conditions among various geriatric populations such as patients with congestive heart failure, spinal cord injury, depression, and arthritis; and caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease.

John Wood, International Education

Jiyuan Yu, Philosophy

Reserach interests include: Ancient Greek Philosophy and Ancient Chinese Philosophy.

Everett Zhang, Anthropology

Research interests include: Medical anthropology; governance; Chinese medicine; cultural psychiatry; the body; Daoism and religion; sexuality; masculinity; the media; China; Taiwan; and Chinese immigrants.