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 Faculty
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Professor Peimin Ni, Coordinator of
the East Asian Studies Program.
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| Craig Banjamin |
Assistant
Professor of History. B.A. & Ph.D., Macquarie University.
Research interest: ancient central Asia. |
| Michael DeWilde |
Assistant Professor of
Philosophy. B.A., William James College, Grand Valley State
University; M.A., Harvard University. Research interests: Buddhism,
comparison of Eastern and Western religions. |
| Laurie Gasahl |
Instructor of Geography.
B.S. Northern Michigan University; M.A. Western Michigan University.
Research interest: Geography of China. |
| Joseph Helgert |
Associate Professor of
Communications. B.A., University of Wisconsin-Parkside; M.A.,
University of Iowa; M.I.M., American Graduate School of International
Management (Thunderbird); Ph.D., Union Graduate School. Japan Management
Program, Japan-America Institute of Management Science/University
of Hawaii, Saskawa Fellow, American Association of State Colleges
and Universities. Ongoing research on Japanese advertising and continued
interest in cross-cultural communications. |
| David Ihrman |
Associate Professor of
English. B.A., Kalamazoo College; M.A., Ph.D., University
of New York at Binghamton. Specializes in the relationship between
literature and art, with special emphasis on China. |
| Sufen Lai |
Associate Professor of
English. B.A., Tunghai University; M.A., Ph.D., University
of Illinois. Teaches classical literature and mythology in a comparative
context; trained in comparative literature, particularly East-West
relations. |
| Peimin Ni |
Professor of Philosophy.
B.A., M.A., Fudan University; Ph.D., University of Connecticut.
Coordinator of East Asian Studies Program, Director of the China
Summer Study Abroad Program, Editor-in-Chief of the “Chinese
and Comparative Philosophy” book series, past President of
the Chinese Association of West Michigan and the Association of
Chinese Philosophers in America, accomplished artist of Chinese
calligraphy. Research interest: Asian and comparative philosophy,
with emphasis on Confucianism and Modern West. |
| Patrick Shan |
Assistant Professor of
History. B.A., Henan University; M.A., Liaoning University;
Ph.D., McMaster University. Research interests: Modern Chinese history.
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| Geling Shang |
Assistant Professor of
Philosophy. B.A., Fudan University; M.A., Old Dominion University,
Tubingen University; Ph.D., Temple University. Research interests:
Taoism and Buddhism, especially Zhuangzi, with a comparative approach.
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| Curtis Dean Smith |
Associate Professor of
Modern Languages and Literatures. B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison;
M.A., University of Hawaii; Ph.D., National Taiwan Normal University.
Research interests: Classical Chinese literature and thought, Taoism,
Buddhism. |
| Huatong Sun |
Assistant Professor of
Writing. B.A., Fudan University; M.S., Michigan Technological
University; Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Research interest:
digital rhetoric, user-centered information design, intercultural
technical communication and software localization, and social computing. |
| Yosay Wangdi |
Assistant Professor of
History. B.A. Loreto College, M.A., M. Phil, Jadavpur University,
M.S. & Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno. Research interest:
South Asia, Environment, China, Tibet and Buddhism. |
| Shinian Wu |
Associate Professor of
English. B.A. Xian Institute of Foreign Languages; M.A.,
Ph.D., Northern Arizona University. Research interest: Theoretical
and applied linguistics; second language acquisition; sociolinguistics;
assessment and evaluation. |
| Yan Yu |
Associate Professor of
Sociology. B.A., M.A., Beijing University; Ph.D., Florida
State University. Research interests: work and family lineages,
family dynamics, family policies, life course, gender, race/ethnicity,
social organizations and change. |
| Yu Fen Liou |
Visiting Instructor of Chinese language. |
| Glenda Quarnstrom |
Adjunct Assistant Professor.
B.A. Barnard College, M.A., Columbia University, Ph.D. University
of Hawaii. Teaches EAS 201 and Politics of East Asia. |
| Kaori Schau |
Visiting Assistant Professor
of Japanese language. B.A. Waseda University, M.A. Nagoya
University, Ph.D. Purdue University. Main interests: second language
instruction and second language acquisition. |
| Kai-Ling Wu |
Adjunct Instructor of Japanese and Chinese Language |
| Lori Witthaus |
Visiting Instructor of
Philosophy. B.A., M.A. in Philosophy, the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion, California Institute of Integral
Studies. Main interests: the Problem of Time, Comparative Philosophy,
Buddhist Philosophy and Indian Philosophy. |
| Suck Choi |
Visiting Instructor of Philosophy, ABD SUNY Buffalo.
Research interest: Neo-Confucianism. |
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