Asian Studies at UVM - Faculty
Saleem
Hassan Ali
Associate
Professor of Environmental Studies
Ph.D.,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interests: Environmental planning, South Asian
regional
conflicts, Resource policy across Asia.
Course offerings: Intro. Environmental Studies, Environmental
Conflict
Resolution, Environmental Planning and International Development,
Terrorism: An Asian Perspective.
Pablo
Bose
Assistant Professor of
Geography
Ph.D., York University
Culture, space and power, transnationalism and diaspora, urban
and cultural geography, political economy and ecology, India
and South Asia.
Tom
Borchert
Assistant Professor of
Religion
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Interests: Religion in contemporary China and
Thailand,
Religion and Politics in Asia, Ethnicity and Religion, and Monastic
Education.
Course offerings: Buddhist
Traditions, Religion in Japan, Religion in China, Intro.
Religion:
Asian Traditions.
Matthew
Carlson
Assistant
Professor of Political Science
Ph.D.,
University of California, Davis, 2003
Research interests: Asian politics, electoral systems, public
opinion, human rights.
Course offerings: Politics of Japan, Politics of China,
Politics
of
East Asia, Comparative Political Systems.
Sin Yee Chan
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D.,
University
of Michigan, 1993
Research
interests: Ancient Confucianism, feminist ethics, emotions.
Course
offerings: Emotions, Ancient Chinese Philosophy,
Theories & Issues of Feminism, Intro. to Philosophy:
East &
West.
Michele Commercio
Assistant Professor of Political SciencePh.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Post-Soviet Central Asia and Central Asian Politics.
Mutsumi Corson
Senior Lecturer of Japanese Language
M.A.,
Teaching ESL, St. Michael's College, 1989
Course
offerings: Japanese language.
Erik
W.
Esselstrom
Assistant
Professor of
East Asian History
Director, Asian Studies Program
Ph.D., University of
California-Santa
Barbara, 2004
Research Interests: Japanese colonialism, modern Sino-Japanese
relations.
Course offerings: Chinese and Japanese history.
Kyle Keoni Ikeda
Assistant
Professor of
Japanese
Ph.D., University
of Hawaii, Manoa, 2007
Research Interest: Okinawan
literature, war memory, second generation trauma, war survivor
narratives
Course Offerings: Japanese (JAPN 001/002), Traditional and Modern
Japanese Literature in Translation (WLIT 195/196).
Ms. Rui
Liu
Visiting Lecturer of Chinese
M.A., Beijing Language University,
China, 2007
Research Interest: Cross-cultural communication, Teaching Chinese as a
foreign language
Course
offerings: Chinese language (CHIN 051/052, CHIN 295/296)
Emily Manetta
Assistant Professor of
Linguistics
(Anthropology Department)
Ph.D., University of
California-Santa Cruz
Research interests: Comparative Indic syntax: question formation and
clause boundary organization in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu. Theoretical
syntax,WH-Movement.
Course offerings: Intro to South Asian Languages.
Cuong Mai
Visiting Lecturer of
Religion
Completing a Ph.D. in Religious
Studies,
University of Indiana
Research interests: Mortuary practices and paradise beliefs
surrounding the Buddha figures Amitabha and Maitreya in the early
medieval Chinese religious world.
Course offerings: Intro. Asian Religions, Religions of
Vietnam,
Religious Perspectives on Death.
Abigail
McGowan
Assistant Professor of
History
Ph.D.,
University
of Pennsylvania, 2003
Research
interests: Development efforts in handicrafts in late
colonial
Western India.
Course
offerings: Early and modern South Asia, Gandhi and his
Legacy;
Peoples, Cultures and Politics
of the Himalayas.
Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree
Assistant Professor of English
Research interests:
Global and East Asian Cinema
Stephanie
Seguino
Professor of Economics
Ph.D.,
American
University, 1994
Research
interests: Economic growth, development, gender in Asia.
Course
offerings: East Asian economic growth.
Peter Seybolt
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D.,
Harvard
University, 1970
Research
interests:
China and Japan during WWII, rural China, China in the 20th Century.
John Seyller
Professor of Art
History
Ph.D.,
Harvard
University, 1986
Research
interests:
Indian painting, Indian and Islamic art.
Course
offerings: Asian art, Japanese art, Chinese painting, Indian
painting, The Hindu
Temple, Islamic art, Art of Southeast Asia, various special
topics in Asian art.
Jeanne L. Shea
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D.,
Harvard
University, 1998
Research
interests: Culture and social change, health and healing,
gender
and sexuality,
the lifecycle and generations, ethnicity and socioeconomic class,
Chinese culture,
Chinese diaspora, China, Canada and the US.
Course
offerings: Cultures of East Asia: race and ethnicity; Asians
in
the US and Canada.
Jonah Steinberg
Assistant Professor of
Anthropology
Ph.D., University of
Pennsylvania, 2006.
Research interests: Transnational and global communities,
responses to
marginality and social crisis, migration and diaspora; Islam, South
Asia, and West Asia; Indic diasporas.
Ms.
Huili Sun
Visiting Lecturer of Chinese
M.Ed., Beijing Language University, China,
2007 Research
Interest: Teaching Chinese as a foreign language, second language
acquisition
Course offerings: Chinese language (CHIN 001/002, CHIN
201/202).
Diana
Sun
Senior Lecturer of Chinese
Language
M.A., St. Louis University, Missouri 1991
Research interests: Language pedagogy.
Course offerings: Chinese language.
Kazuko
Carlson (formerly Suzuki)
Lecturer of Japanese Language
M.A., Teaching ESL, Saint Michael's College, 2002
Course Offerings: Japanese language.
Kevin Trainor
Associate Professor of Religion
Ph.D.,
Columbia
University, 1990
Research
interests:
South Asian Buddhism, with a focus on Sri Lankan Theravada tradition;
Buddhist ritual.
Course
offerings: Buddhism
in Sri Lanka, Ritualization, Interpretation of Religion, Introduction to the
study of
Religion -- Comparative, Buddhist
traditions.
John Jing-hua Yin
Associate Professor of Chinese Language
Ph.D.,
SUNY-Buffalo, 1995
Research
interests: Chinese language pedagogy, Chinese writing system.
Course
offerings: Chinese language, Chinese characters, Chinese
literature in English
translation, Chinese
culture.
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