Craig Banjamin

Position: Assistant Professor of History.

Degree and Experience: B.A. & Ph.D., Macquarie University.

Research interest: ancient central Asia.

Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

Degree and Experience: B.A., William James College, Grand Valley State University; M.A., Harvard University.

Research interests: Buddhism, comparison of Eastern and Western religions.

Position: Instructor of Geography. B.S.

Degree and Experience: Northern Michigan University; M.A. Western Michigan University.

Research interest: Geography of China.

Position: Associate Professor of Communications.

Degree and Experience: 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: Japanese advertising and continued interest in cross-cultural communications.

Position: Associate Professor of English. B.A., Kalamazoo

Degree and Experience: College; M.A., Ph.D., University of New York at Binghamton.

Specializes in the relationship between literature and art, with special emphasis on China.

Position: Associate Professor of English.

Degree and Experience: 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.

Position: Professor of Philosophy.

Degree and Experience: 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.

Position: Assistant Professor of History.

Degree and Experience: B.A., Henan University; M.A., Liaoning University; Ph.D., McMaster University.

Research interests: Modern Chinese history.

Position: Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

Degree and Experience: 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.

Position: Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures.

Degree and Experience: 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.

Position: Assistant Professor of Writing.

Degree and Experience: 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.

Position: Assistant Professor of History.

Degree and Experience: 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.

Position: Associate Professor of English. B.A.

Degree and Experience: 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.

Position: Associate Professor of Sociology.

Degree and Experience: 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.

Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor.

Degree and Experience: B.A. Barnard College, M.A., Columbia University, Ph.D. University of Hawaii. Teaches EAS 201 and Politics of East Asia.

Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese language.

Degree and Experience: B.A. Waseda University, M.A. Nagoya University, Ph.D. Purdue University.

Main interests: second language instruction and second language acquisition.

Position: Adjunct Instructor of Japanese and Chinese Language

Lori Witthaus

Position: Visiting Instructor of Philosophy

Degree and Experience: 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

Position: Visiting Instructor of Philosophy.

Degree and Experience: ABD SUNY Buffalo.

Research interest: Neo-Confucianism.