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Narayanaswami Anantaraman - Senior Physicist and Assistant Director for User Relations, NSCL
Ph.D. 1973, (Physics) University of Chicago
Research interests in experimental nuclear physics, India related outreach, education on Hinduism, culture and history of India.
Phone: (ofc.) 333-6337, (dept.) 355-6337; Fax: 353-5967
anantaraman@nscl.msu.edu
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Mark Axelrod - Assistant Professor, James Madison College and Fisheries
& Wildlife
Ph.D. 2008, (Political Science) Duke University; J.D. 2004, Stanford
University.
Teaching interests in international relations and environmental policy,
international political economy, South Asia.
Research interests in international law and politics, environmental law
and politics, Indian trade and environmental politics, comparative
foreign policy, and effects of democratic institutions on environmental
outcomes
Phone: (ofc.) 353-8607, (dept.) 353-6750; Fax: 432-1804
axelrod3@msu.edu
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Mohammed Ayoob - Distinguished University Professor, International Relations
Ph.D. 1966, (Political Science) University of Hawaii.
Teaching interests in international relations and political development of the third world, contemporary world politics, South Asia and the Middle East.
Research interests in regional security in the third world, state-making and third world security, international politics and security of South Asia and the Middle East.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-3538, (dept.) 353-6750; Fax: 432-1804
ayoob@msu.edu
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Ravinder Bhavnani - Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Ph.D. 2003, (Comparative Politics and Methodology) University of Michigan
Teaching interests in political violence and comparative politics of developing areas (South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa).
Research interests in ethnic violence, popular rebellion, and civil war.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-3527, (dept.) 355-6590; Fax: 432-1091
bhavnani@msu.edu
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Mary Bresnahan - Professor, Communication
Ph.D. 1985, (Discourse Analysis and Southeast Asian Languages and Culture) University of Michigan.
Teaching interests include features of Chinese and Japanese communication style, stereotypes about Asian self-effacement, and beliefs about healthy lifestyle in Asia.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-1285, (dept.) 355-3470; Fax: 432-1192
bresnah1@msu.edu
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Roger Bresnahan - Professor, Writing Rhetoric and American Culture
Ph.D. 1974, (American Literature) University of Massachusetts.
Teaching interests in the history and culture of Southeast Asia, Asian American studies, and radical political movements in the U.S.
Research interests in Philippine literature, U.S.-Philippine relations, the Cambodian holocaust, and Asian-American writers.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-2930, (dept.) 355-2400; Fax: 353-5250
bresnaha@msu.edu
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Eric Chang - Assistant Professor, Political Science
Ph. D. 2003 (Political Science) UCLA. Teaching and research interests in comparative political economy, political corruption, East Asian politics, and applied econometrics. He is participating in the "East Asia Barometer", a cross- national comparative survey project which examines citizens' support for democracy in several East Asian countries. Phone: (dept.) 432-2047
echang@msu.edu
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Georgia Chao - Associate Professor, Management
Ph.D. 1982, (Industrial/Organizational Psychology) Pennsylvania State University.
Teaching interests in international human resource management with emphasis on training and development programs.
Research interests in organizational socialization and career development with special interests in cross-cultural work adjustment in China.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-5418, (dept.) 353-5415; Fax: 432-1111
chaog@msu.edu
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Soma Chaudhuri – Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology; School of Criminal Justice
Ph.D. 2008, Vanderbilt University (Sociology)
Research interests include qualitative methods, witch hunts, deviant behavior, social movements, gender in the developing world, juvenile delinquency, property rights for women and South Asia.
Teaching interests on classical sociological theory, gender and violence, and social movements.
Phone: 517-353-0874
chaudh30@msu.edu
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Amita Chudgar - Assistant Professor, Education
Ph.D., Stanford University.
Research interests in economics of
education and the identification of policies to address educational
challenges facing developing countries, especially focused on equity in
access to education in India and equity in educational achievement in the
international comparative context.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-5342
amitac@msu.edu; faculty web page here
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Kenneth Corey - Professor of Geography and Professor of Urban Planning & Regional Planning, Geography
Ph.D. 1969, (Geography) University of Cincinnati.
Teaching interests in public policy analysis and planning, and international urban development and comparative methods.
Research interests in information technology and telecommunications policies in Southeast Asian development, and urban and regional development in Asia, with a focus on urban development planning and policies in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, and Sri Lanka.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-4750, (dept.) ; Fax: 432-1671
kenneth.corey@ssc.msu.edu
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Kenneth David - Associate Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D. 1972, (Anthropology) University of Chicago.
Teaching interests in organizational and business anthropology.
Research interests in Sri Lankan social stratification, religion, village economics, and politics. Also cultural and power issues in interorganizational relationships.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-5079, (dept.) 353-2950; Fax: 432-2363
davidk@msu.edu
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John Davis, Jr.toplink - Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D. 2002, (Anthropology) Stanford University
Research and teaching interests include Japanese society, human rights and globalization, Japanese popular culture, political and legal anthropology, marginalized communities in Japanese society with a focus on the Buraku issue, psychological anthropology, and race/ethnicity and nationalism.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-5272, (dept.) 353-2950;
Fax: 432-2363
davisjrj@msu.edu
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Brian Delany toplink- Associate Professor, Teacher Education
Ph.D. 1986, (Administration and Policy Analysis) Stanford University.
Teaching interests in educational and social policy analysis.
Research interests in policy analysis, resource allocation issues and schooling's contribution to social stratification, with regional focus on China
Phone: (ofc.) 353-7765, (dept.) 355-9628; Fax: 353-6393
bdelany@msu.edu
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Diana Dimitrovatoplink - Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Ph.D. 2000 (Indology) Heidelberg
Teaching interests in religions and philosophy of South Asia, bhakti Hinduism and Hindi Literature. Research interests in Hindi theater, Buddhism, Hindu thought, North Indian Islam, Sufis, women and religion and Hindu goddesses.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-0830, (dept.) 353-2930;
Fax: 432-1460
dimitro7@msu.edu
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Elizabeth Drexler - Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D. 2001, (Anthropology) University of Washington
East Timor, History, memory, violence and law, globalization & justice, Indonesian political culture, Islam, political violence, politics of military accountability, transitional justice, memory & narrative
Phone: (ofc.) 353-6726, (dept.) 353-2950; Fax: 432-2363
drexler@msu.edu
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Mutsuko Endo Hudson
- Associate Professor, Linguistics and German, Slavic, Asian and African Languages
Ph.D. 1989, (Linguistics) University of Michigan.
Teaching interests in Japanese language and linguistics, and Japanese language pedagogy.
Research interests in Japanese linguistics and second-language teaching. Certified in oral proficiency testing.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-7164, (dept.) 353-0740; Fax: 432-2736
endo@msu.edu
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Kyle T. Evered
- Assistant Professor, Geography
Ph.D. 2002, (Geography) University of Oregon.
Teaching interests in cultural-political geographies and topics in political ecology.
Research interests in identity-place relationships and environmental issues. Wider regional focus on Turkic Eurasia, with specific attention to issues in rural Turkey.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-4746, (dept.) 355-4649; Fax: 432-1671
ktevered@msu.edu
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Phylis Floyd - Associate Professor, Department of Art
Ph.D. 1983 (History of Art), University of Michigan
Teaching interests focus on contemporary art and cross-fertilizations from and with places overseas.
Research and curatorial interests in Japanese art and its influences and forms overseas.
Phone: (517) 353-9105
floyd@msu.edu
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Eric Freedman- Assistant Professor, Journalism; Assistant Dean, International Studies and Programs
JD 1975 (Law) New York University
Fulbright senior lecturer in international journalism at Uzbek State World
Languages University in Tashkent. For two years headed MSU's Study Abroad program on Australia Media, Environment and Culture Study Abroad. Research interests include press freedom, environmental issues and press-NGO relations in Central Asia.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-4729; (dept.) 353-6430; Fax: 355-7710
freedma5@msu.edu; http://jrn.msu.edu/people/faculty/39 (http://jrn.msu.edu/people/faculty/39)
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Rita S. Gallin - Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. 1979, (Sociology) Michigan State University.
Teaching interests in global transformation and women in China and Asia.
Researching interests in social and economic changes, gender relations, and rural industrialization in Taiwan.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-0766, (dept.) 355-6640; Fax: 432-2856
gallinr@msu.edu
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John Giles - Associate Professor, Economics
Ph.D. 1999, (Economics) University of California at Berkeley
Teaching interests in Development Economics and East Asian Development.
Research interests in problems of developing and transitional economies, with particular emphasis on rural China.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-7755, (dept.) 355-7583; Fax: 432-1068
gilesj@msu.edu
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Steven Gold - Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. 1985, (Sociology) University of California Berkeley.
Teaching interests in sociology theory, qualitative methods, migration and social change. Research interests in immigrant adaptation, ethnic self-employment, community development, visual sociology, especially in relation to Vietnamese and Southeast Asians.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-6352, (dept.) 355-6640; Fax: 432-2856
gold@msu.edu; http://sociology.msu.edu/sgold.html (http://sociology.msu.edu/sgold.html)
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Ved Gossain - Chief, Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism
M.D. 1967, (Internal Medicine) All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
Teaching interests in India, medical education in India at undergraduate level and continuing medical education.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-3730, (dept.) 353-6625; Fax: 353-5436
gossain@msu.edu
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Norman Graham - Professor of International Relations and Associate Dean, James Madison College
Ph.D. 1980, (Political Science) Columbia University.
Teaching interests in Japan and India as well as international organization, foreign policy analysis and politics of international economic relations.
Research interests in technology transfer and industrial competitiveness in India, Japan and the Republic of Korea, and in security, arms transfer, and economic development in Asia.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-3372, (dept.) 355-6750; Fax: 432-1804
grahamn@msu.edu
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Craig Harris - Associate Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. 1978, (Sociology) University of Michigan.
Research areas include Peoples Republic of China, Taiwan, and Asia generally. Research topics include agriculture and the environment, fisheries management and development, aquaculture, and development of environmental policy.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-5048, (dept.) 355-6640; Fax: 432-2856
harrisc@msu.edu http://www.msu.edu/~harrisc/ (http://www.msu.edu/~harrisc/)
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Vincent Hoffman - Associate Professor, Criminal Justice
Ph.D. 1979, (Psychology), Michigan State University.
Teaching interests in North and South Korea and East Asia, especially Korean culture and its relationship to social science issues and history.
Research interests in adolescent development and agencies of the community affecting that development; Asians and their adaptation to the U.S.; international issues on spouse abuse; research on the status of children in the Pacific Rim. Developed and teaches an international course focusing on Asia criminal justice.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-6603, (dept.) 355-2197; Fax: 432-1787
vincent.hoffman@ssc.msu.edu
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Talbott Huey - Coordinator, International Studies Collection Development
Ph.D. 1973, (Political Science) Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Taught in and directed Asian Studies programs in other universities.
Responsible for library resources for East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Australia/Oceania, and for international development.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-6123, (dept.) ; Fax: 432-3532
huey@msu.edu
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Kazuko Ioroi - Instructor, Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and
African Languages
M.A. 1998, (Teaching Foreign Language), Monterey Institute of International Studies
Teaching interests: Japanese language at various levels
Research interests: Japanese pedagogy, second language acquisition computer-assisted language learning
Phone: (ofc.) 353-0805 , (dept.) 353-0740; Fax: 432-2736
ioroi@msu.edu; http://www.msu.edu/~ioroi (http://www.msu.edu/~ioroi)
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Anning Jing - Associate Professor, Art
Ph.D. 1994, (Art History), Princeton University.
Teaching interests in Arts of China, Japan, India, Korea, and Southeast Asia; Nature in Asian art; Asian Buddhist art. Current research includes Chinese Buddhist art, Chinese Daoist art, Chinese folk temples, Chinese landscape painting.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-7633, (dept.) 355-7610; Fax: 432-3938
jinga@msu.edu
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Linda Johnson - Associate Professor, History
Ph.D. 1986, (History) University of California-Santa Cruz.
Specialization in pre-modern Chinese history.
Research interests in urban history, Chinese art and art history. Publications on Jiang cities from 12th to 19th centuries, history of the city of Shanghai, representations of Chinese cities through urban landscape paintings.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-8222. x 134, (dept.) 355-7500; Fax: 353-5599
johnso44@msu.edu
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Nan Johnson- Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. 1977, (Sociology), Pennsylvania State University.
Current research focuses on lack of female autonomy in the patriarchical family system in India, the strategies by which Indian females are beginning to acquire autonomy within their marital family, and the demographic consequences of female dependency/autonomy. Special demographic consequences of Interest are the greater death rates of girls than boys and the possible reduction of sex differences in children's health when their mother is more educated than their paternal grandmother.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-5974, (dept.) 355-6640, Fax: 432-2856
johnsonn@msu.edu
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Yasumasa Komori - Assistant Professor, International Relations, James Madison College
Ph.D. 2007, (Public and International Affairs), University of Pittsburgh.
Teaching and research interests in international relations, international political economy, international relations of the Asia-Pacific, and political economy of East Asia.
Phone: (517) 884-1269
komoriy@msu.edu; faculty web page here (http://jmc.msu.edu/faculty/show.asp?id=86)
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Michael Lawrence - Professor, MSU College of Law
J.D. 1992, University of Wisconsin - Madison.
International Law, Chinese law, training of Chinese legal scholars, legal education, Civil Liberties
Phone: (ofc.) 432-6816,
lawren77@msu.edu
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Michael Lewis - Professor, History
Ph.D. 1984, (History) Stanford University.
Early modern and modern Japan, particularly on subjects of national integration, popular protest, "mass" culture, and environmental history
Phone: (ofc.) 353-1680, Fax: 432-2659
lewism@msu.edu
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Guofang Li - Associate Professor, Department of Education
Ph.D. 2000, University of Saskatchewan
Research interests in Asian immigrant children's home literacy practices, cultural conflicts and educational dissensions between Asian immigrant parents and mainstream schools/teachers regarding literacy learning and instruction, and Asian children's social processes of learning.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-4041, (dept.) 353-5091; Fax: 432-5092
liguo@msu.edu
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Hairong Li - Associate Professor, Department of Advertising
Ph.D. 1995, (Mass Media) Michigan State University
Research interests in social impacts of information and communication
technologies, with emphasis on e-commerce and e-government in the U.S.and Asia.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-1739, (dept.) 355-2314; Fax: 432-2589
hairong@msu.edu
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Xiaoshi Li - Assistant Professor, Linguistics and German, Slavic, Asian and African Languages
Ph.D. 2007, University of Texas at San Antonio
Research and teaching interests in second language acquisition and sociolinguistics, Chinese language and culture, applied linguistics, and intercultural issues in second language teaching and learning.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-7216, (dept.) 353-0740, Fax: 432-2736
xli@msu.ed;
faculty web page here (http://www.msu.edu/asian/~xli/)
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Andrea Louie - Associate Professor, Anthropology
PhD. 1996, (Cultural Anthropology) University of California, Berkeley
Teaching interests in issues relating to the Chinese diaspora and Chinese on the mainland. Research interests in history and memory, identity, racial and cultural politics, ethnicity and nationalism, transnationalism, Chinese ethnicities and identities, Asian American Studies, Guangdong(southern China), Chinese diaspora.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-6724, (dept.) 353-2950; Fax: 432-2363
louie@msu.edu
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Sheng-Mei Ma - Professor, English
Ph.D. 1990, (English Literature) Indiana University.
Teaching and research interests in Asian American literature and minority discourse theory, comparative literature on genocide, postcolonial literature and theory, Asian diaspora culture, and Asian literature and film.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-3764, (dept.) 353-7571; Fax: 353-3755
mash@msu.edu
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M. Cecil Mackey - Professor, Economics
Ph.D. 1955, (Philosophy) University of Illinois.
Research interests in China and other parts of Asia. President of MSU, 1979-85.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-4755, (dept.) 355-7583; Fax: 432-1068
mackey@msu.edu
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Robert McKinley - Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Ph.D. 1975, (Anthropology) University of Michigan.
Teaching and research interests in Malay and Indonesian cultures, Southeast Asia, religions of Asia, family and kinship in Southeast Asia, national cultures and the individual. Research and teaching have been in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-0363, (dept.) 353-2930; Fax: 432-1460
rhmckinley@webtv.net
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Ann Mongoven - Assistant Professor, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, College of Human Medicine
Ph.D, 1996 (Religious Studies, Ethics) University of Virginia
Teaching interests: Bioethics, public health issues, research ethics, theories of justice, diversity issues in ethics.
Research Interests: Bioethics, civic virtue, organ donation policies, medical ethics, ethics in the war on terror.
Address: C-221 E. Fee Hall, Phone: 353-9523, Fax: 353-3289
ann.mongoven@ht.msu.edu
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Merry Morash - Director and Professor, School of Criminal Justice
Ph.D. 1978, (Crimial Justice and Criminology) University of Maryland
Research and teaching interests in delinquency, operation of the juvenile justice system, and women in the criminal justice system, violence against women internationally, domestic violence and Asian American woman, policing in Korea
Phone: (ofc.) 355-2192, (dept.) 355-2197; Fax: 432-1787
morashm@msu.edu
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Mahesh K. Nalla - Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, School of Criminal Justice
Ph.D. 1988, State University of New York
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice
Teaching interests in private policing; Comparative Crime and Justice.
Current research interests in communities and crime, corruption and
integrity issues in Africa and Asia; Public and Private Policing in
India, South Korea, Turkey, Slovenia, El Salvador, and Guatemala.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-2228, (dept.) 355-2197; Fax: 432-1787
nalla@msu.edu
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Lynn Paine - Associate Professor, Teacher Education
Ph.D. 1986, (International Development Education) Stanford University.
Teaching interests in comparative education (especially China, Japan, U.S. and the U.K.), sociology of education, and feminist analysis of schooling.
Research interests in relationship between social change and education, policy and practice, rural development and stratification, with regional focus on East Asia, especially China.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-3266, (dept.) 355-9628; Fax: 353-6393
painel@msu.edu
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Ok-Sook Park – Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and
Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages
Ph.D. 2002, (Linguistics) Michigan State University.
Teaching interests in Korean language and linguistics.
Research interests in phonology, developing teaching materials for Korean and other languages,
heritage language acquisition, training teachers of Korean and other languages.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-0663, (dept.) 353-0740; Fax: 432-2736
ospark@msu.edu
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Judy Pugh - Associate Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D. 1981, (Anthropology) University of Chicago.
Culture, health and illness, religion, ethnographic analysis, South Asia, Hinduism, Islam
Phone: (ofc.) 353-9634, (dept.) 353-2950; Fax: 432-2363
pugh@msu.edu
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Dawn Pysarchik - Professor of Advertising, Public Relations and Retail, College of Communication Arts and Sciences; Associate Dean, International Studies and Programs
Ph.D. 1982, (Consumer Economics and Business) Michigan State University.
Teaching interests related to international business development.
Research interests in consumer-product distribution systems in South Korea and India, and changing power structure within total consumer-product distribution system.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-2351, (dept.) 353-2350; Fax: 353-7254
pysarchi@msu.edu
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Simei Qing - Associate Professor, International Relations
Ph.D. 1994, (History) Michigan State University.
Teaching and research in international relations, American and East Asian relations and Chinese and U.S. foreign policy from a social and cultural perspective.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-1692, (dept.) 353-6750; Fax: 432-1804
qing@msu.edu
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Linda Racioppi - Professor, James Madison College
Ph.D. 1991, (Government and Politics) University of Maryland.
Teaching and research interests in South Asian regional politics, especially South Asian relations with the former Soviet Union; also gender and ethnicity in South Asia.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-1157, (dept.) 353-6750; Fax: 432-1804
racioppi@msu.edu
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Kunwar Rajendra - Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D.,Transportation Engineering, Michigan State University
Teaching interests in Intelligent Transportation and Infrastructure Systems.
Research interests in Intelligent Transportation Systems, including Advanced Transportation Systems (ATMS), Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS), Commercial Vehicles Operations (CVO), Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII), Systems Analysis, Operations, International Border Crossing Systems, Homeland Security systems, International issues in Transportation including safety, tele-communications and congestion; Training and Education; Economic analysis of intelligent systems and advanced technologies.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-9562; Fax: 353-1980
rajendr2@msu.edu
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Sobha Ramanand - Adjunct Professor, Graduate School
Ph.D. 1996, (Organizational & Community Resource Development and Human Resource Management) Michigan State University
Teaching interests in non-profit management and undergraduate courses in Integrated Social Science.
Research interests in South Asia, and social capital, knowledge-driven work and high-performance teams in Lean manufacturing in Japan and at Japanese sites in the U.S.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-7337, (dept.) 353-0301; Fax: 353-3355
ramanand@msu.edu
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John Reifenberg, Jr. - Professor, Detroit College of Law at MSU
Ph.D. 1972, (J.D.) University of Denver College of Law
Teaching interests: Torts, International Law, International Business Transactions, and various comparative law courses.
Research interests: Canadian Charter of Rights, Chinese Law, Comparative Law, European Union Law, International Business Transactions, International Environmental Law, Public International Law, Torts I, Torts II.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-6892, (dept.) 432-6800; Fax: 432-6801
reifenbe@msu.edu
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Jeffrey Riedinger - Dean, International Studies and Programs; Professor, Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies
Ph.D. 1991, (Public and International Affairs) Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Teaching interests in Philippines, Indonesia, India, Nepal, South and Southeast Asia, agrarian reform, rural development, environmental law, natural resource management and development administration.
Research interests in politics of agrarian reform, agro-forestry practices in tropical uplands, the role of non-governmental organizations in rural development and environmental protection and peasant participation in social revolutionary movements.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-2352; Fax: (353-7254)
ispdean@msu.edu
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Bryan Ritchie - Associate Professor, James Madison College
Ph.D. 2001, (Political Economy) Emory University
Teaching and research interests in the comparative and international political economy of skills formation, technological development, and industrial upgrading in Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-8614, (dept.) 353-6750; Fax: 432-1804
ritchieb@msu.edu
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Catherine Ryu - Associate Professor, Linguistics and Languages
Ph.D., 1999, (Language and Literature) University of Michigan
Research interest: narratives of the Heian era, gender and language, comparisons between Japanese classical and modern literature.
Teaching interest: Japanese language, Asian culture and literature, film and literature, women's literature.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-6656, (dept.) 353-0740; Fax: 432-2736
ryuc@msu.edu
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Denise Saint Arnault - Associate Professor, Nursing
Ph.D., Wayne State University, 1998 (Medical Anthropology, Major; Psychology, Women's studies, and Japan, Minors)
Research interests: social support and help-seeking among Japanese expatriate women living in the US; examination of how culture shapes the self, and the effect of this on health related research and outcomes, specifically in the area of mental health; culturally distinct and universal patterns of emotional, interpersonal and somatic distress; culturally competent assessment, interaction and psychotherapeutic approaches by using both social psychological and anthropological methods in the study of culture, self and health.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-3332, (dept.) 355-6523; Fax: 353-9555
saintarn@msu.edu
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Ethan Segal - Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D. 2003 (History), Stanford University
Teaching Interest: Asian history, especially pre-modern and early modern Japan; comparative medieval societies; gender and women's history; historical methodology.
Research Interests: Economic history, money and trade in East Asia; nationalism and State Identity in premodern societies; textbooks and history education.
Phone (ofc.) 517-432-8222 ext. 132; fax 353-5599
segale@msu.edu
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Sayuri Shimizu - Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., 1991, (History), Cornell University.
Teaching interests in U.S.-East Asian relations, U.S. diplomatic history since 1770; modern Japanese diplomatic history.
Research interests in U.S./Japanese relations.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-8222 ext = 146, (dept.) 355-7500; Fax: 353-5599
shimizu@msu.edu
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Brian Silver - Professor, Political Science
Ph.D. 1972, (Political Science) University of Wisconsin.
Research interests in demography of Chinese minority nationalities in collaboration with State Statistics Bureau in China; survey of women, family and work in Beijing with Beijing Institute of Economics. Surveys on political attitudes in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Demographic research on Central Asia generally.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-2237, (dept.) 355-6590; Fax: 432-1091
bsilver@msu.edu
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Jyotsna G. Singh - Professor English Arts & Letters
Research interests include Post-colonial theory, colonial history and literature (India focus), and English Renaissance texts.
Teaching interests in using post-colonial theory to examine early (16th -18th c) encounters
between Europeans and their non-European "others."
Phone:(ofc.)355-1849, (dept) 355-7570, (Fax) 373-3755
jsingh@msu.edu
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Aminda M. Smith - Assistant Professor, Department of History
Ph.D, 2006 (East Asian Studies, Modern Chinese History) Princeton University
Teaching interests: Asian history, especially modern and contemporary China; comparative and trans-cultural gender, sexuality, criminality, and punishment.
Research interests: Chinese Communist Party; comparative policing and criminality; comparative prostitution and sexuality.
Address: 325 Morrill Hall, Phone: 432-8222, Ext 118, Fax: 353-5599
amsmith@msu.edu
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Brenda Sternquist - Professor, International Retailing
Ph.D. 1978, (Interdisciplinary Degree in Consumer Economics, Clothing and Textiles, and Marketing) University of Tennessee.
Research interests in international retailing with research projects in Japan, People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Power relationships within the distribution system; channel member conflict, and negotiations; assessment of buying and procurement functions.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-0256, (dept.) 353-2938; Fax: 432-1058
sternqui@msu.edu
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Gordon Stewart - Professor, History
Ph.D. 1970, Queen's University, Canada
Teaching Interests: British History since 1688; History of India: World History since 1500; seminars in British Empire history topics, World History, and Comparative History. Research Interests: India and the British in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-8222, (dept.) 355-7500; Fax: 353-5599
stewar14@msu.edu
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David Stowe - Professor, Writing Rhetoric and American Culture
Ph.D. 1993, (American Studies) Yale University
Research interests in 20th century US history, history of jazz, American sacred music, US-Japan cultural relations, race, ethnicity, and national identity
Phone: (ofc.) 353-4370, (dept.) 355-2400; Fax: 353-5250
stowed@msu.edu
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Murari Suvedi - Professor, ANR Education and Communication Systems
Ph.D. 1991, (Agricultural and Extension Education) Michigan State University
Teaching interests: Advanced Educational Research and Educational Research Methods in Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Research interests: Evaluation capacity building in agriculture, environment and natural resources management, market development of processed food in India, and environment and development in Nepal.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-0265, (dept.) 355-6580; Fax: 353-4981
suvedi@msu.edu
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Chunhong Teng - Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Languages
Ph.D.1990, Foreign language Education, University of Kansas.
Research and teaching interest in second language acquistion; foreign language pedagogy; teaching Chinese to native speakers of English; developing computer-assisted instructional material for Chinese classes.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-1235, (dept.) 353-0740; Fax: 432-2736
tengc@msu.edu
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James Trosko - Professor, Pediatrics and Human Development
Ph.D. 1963, (Radiation Genetics) Michigan State University.
Maintain outlets for long-term scientific collaborations in Japan, Korea, and Thailand including research on the long-term effects of radiation on the survivors and their offspring of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Spent two years as the Chief of Research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-6346, (dept.) 432-3100; Fax: 432-2310
trosko@msu.edu
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Arthur Versluis - Professor, Writing Rhetoric and American Culture
Ph.D.1990, (English Literature, American Studies) University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Teaching interests: American radical thought.
Research interests: American transcendentalism and Asian religions, Western esotericism.
Phone.355-3282, Fax.353-5250
versluis@msu.edu
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Hsiao-ping Wang - Instructor, Lingusitics and Languages
M.A. 1987 (English literature), University of California
Teaching interests include Chinese language at various levels as well as Chinese literature and culture.
Research interests include cultural and critical studies of Chinese literature, intellectual histories of East Asia, critical theories, pedagogy and the Chinese language.
Phone:(ofc.) 353-0662
wanghsi@msu.edu; http://www.msu.edu/~wanghsi/ (http://www.msu.edu/~wanghsi/)
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Christopher Wheeler - Professor, Teacher Education
Ph.D. 1972, (Comparative Politics) Columbia University.
Christopher Wheeler is an emeritus professor of teacher education with extensive experience
in the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar. He has been a
leader in developing MSU international linkages with Can Tho University in the Mekong
Delta. His projects have shown how universities and schools can contribute to community
development and environmental protection.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-0750, (dept.) 355-9628; Fax: 353-6393
cwheeler@msu.edu
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Runsheng Yin - Associate Professor, Forestry
Ph.D. 1998, (Forest Economics & Finance) University of Georgia
Teaching interest are international forestry for both undergraduate and graduate students and resource economics for graduate students.
Research activities are forest business management and international forestry. The research focus will be international forestry development and international trade of forest products.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-3352, (dept.) 355-0091; Fax: 432-1143
yinr@msu.edu
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Khalida Zaki - Assistant Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. 1991, (Sociology) Michigan State University.
Teaching interests in sociology of sex and gender, sociology of family, sociology of work, introduction to sociology, society and the individual, and war and the revolution.
Research interests in status of women, fertility, and mortality in south Asia.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-6640, (dept.) 355-6640; Fax: 432-2856
zakik@msu.edu
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Zhenmei Zhang - Assistant Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. 2003, (Sociology and Demography), Pennsylvania State University.
Teaching interests: Family and Society, Aging and Health, Demographic Techniques.
Research interests (United States): Family and Health in Later Life, Early-Life Environment and Cognitive Functioning, Racial/Ethnic/Immigrant Inequality in Health, Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes
Research interests (China) : Risk Factors of Cognitive Impairment in older adults, Early-Life Environment and Health, Gender and Health.
Phone: (ofc.) 355-7545, (dept.) 355-6640; Fax: 432-2856
zhangz12@msu.edu; http://www.sociology.msu.edu/ZhenmeiZhang.html (http://www.sociology.msu.edu/ZhenmeiZhang.html)
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Weijun Zhao - Associate Professor/Associate Director, U.S./China Rural Development Training Program
Ph.D. 1992, (Natural Resources) Michigan State University.
Dr. Weijun Zhao is Director of MSU Office of China Programs, his role is to develop, facilitate and coordinate the campus-wide collaboration and exchange with China in the areas of teaching, research outreach and consulting. He also supervise the work of the MSU China Office in Beijing.
Phone: (ofc.) 432-4792, (dept.) 355-0174; Fax: 353-1888
zhaow@msu.edu
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Yong Zhao - University Distinguished Professor, Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education
Ph.D. 1996, (Educational Psychology) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Teaching interests: Educational psychology, Internet-based learning environments, technology evolution and adoption, language acquisition and literacy, and perceptual control theory.
Research interests: Internet based learning environments, and evolution and adaptation. social, cultural and psychological interactions between technology and education.
Phone: (ofc.) 353-4325, (dept.) 353-7863; Fax: 353-6393
zhaoyo@msu.edu
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