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Consortium for the Study of the Asias
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Members Alphabetically
| Name | Department | Specialization | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taner Akcam | History | Ottoman and Turkish History, Armenian Genocide, Middle East Sociology | 612-824-7399 takcam@umn.edu |
| Joseph Allen | Asian Languages & Literature | China, Chinese poetry, ethnicity in Asia, ethnic tension, Taipei City | 612-625-0122 jrallen@umn.edu |
| Mark Anderson | Asian Languages & Literature | Japanese film, Japanese literature, Japanese modernity, Marxian theory, the Phonograph, Empire and Japanese Culture, Japanese popular music and media, Japanese media studies, Imperialism and culture in Japan and the U.S., culture and globalization, critique of neoconservatism in a global context. | 612-626-8143 ander025@umn.edu |
| Catherine B. Asher | Art History | Afghanistan art, Hindu monuments, imperial patronage, India, Indian art, Indian sculpture, Islamic and South Asian Art and Culture, Muslim art, temples, the construction of public monuments, Islamic art. | 612-626-8339 asher001@umn.edu |
| Frederick M. Asher | Art History | India, sculpture and architecture of South Asia, South Asian Art, trade patterns, violence in South Asia, contested space in South Asia. | 612-624-4500 asher@umn.edu |
| Ragui A. Assaad | Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs | International Economic Development, Politics and economics of the Middle East and North Africa, Urban planning, poverty in developing countries. | 612-625-4856 assaad@umn.edu |
| Michael N. Barnett | Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs | Middle East, humantiarianism, international affairs, and international organizations | 612-626-3194 barne293@umn.edu |
| Iraj Bashiri | Linguistics and Asian and Slavic Languages | Afghanistan, Central Asian Studies, communism, history, religion, and ideology of Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, Iranian linguistics and literature, Islam, Middle East, Persian, Sadeq Hedayat, Tajik-Uzbek conflict, Taliban, Firdowsi and His Shahnameh, Islam and the West | 612-331-3988 bashi001@umn.edu |
| William O. Beeman | Anthropology | Peasant and nomadic societies, philosophic anthropology, action anthropology, paralinguistic and nonlinguistic semiotics, sociolinguistics and the semantics of interaction, cross-cultural comparison of theatrical and performance genres, opera | 612-624-8990 wbeeman@umn.edu |
| Ritu Bhatt | School of Architecture | History and theory of modernism, design cognition, aesthetics, cultural theory, and historiography of architecture in the Indian subcontinent | 612-626-7536 bhatt017@umn.edu |
| Yanjie Bian | Sociology | Structural sociology, with a special interest in social stratification and mobility, economic sociology, social networks, and contemporary Chinese societies in East Asia | 612-624-9554 bianx001@umn.edu |
| Hisham Bizri | Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature | Exile, memory, and identity, modernist film, literature, and music, avant-garde film, Arabic thought and poetry, filmmaking | 612-625-8450 612-624-8099 hbizri@umn.edu |
| Timothy A. Brennan | Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature | Theories of globalization, translation theory, postcolonial theory, music of the African Diaspora, continental literary and cultural theory, 19th and 20th-century comparative literature | 612-626-1638 612-624-8099 brenn032@umn.edu |
| Jeffrey Broadbent | Sociology, Istitute for Global Studies (IGS) | Japanese society, East Asian society, Comparative sociology, culture and structure, environmental sociology, Japanese society, networks and identity, political sociology, qualitative methods, social movements, East Asian society | 612-624-1828 broad001@umn.edu |
| Teri Caraway | Political Science | Comparative political economy of labor, transnational labor issues, Southeast Asian politics, gender and comparative politics | caraway@umn.edu |
| Giancarlo Casale | History | Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East, pre-modern and early modern world history | 612-626-4265 casale@umn.edu |
| Tsan-Kuo Chang | Journalism and Mass Communication | China Media, international communication, news, sociology of knowledge, theory and methodology, mass media and foreign policy | 612-626-7754 chang003@umn.edu |
| David W. Chapman | Educational Policy and Administration | International education development | 612-626-8728 chapm026@umn.edu |
| Ananya Chatterjea | Theatre Arts and Dance | Asian, Indian, and Africanist Dance, dance education, classical and folk dance forms, aesthetics, movement, women's studies, choreography and performance | 612-626-2280 ananya@umn.edu |
| Su Chen | East Asian Library | 612.624.5863 suchen@umn.edu | |
| Evelyn N. Ch'ien | English/Asian American Studies | Minority literature; Asian and Asian American literature and film; Hip hop music and literature | (612)626-9555 chien026@umn.edu |
| Hangtae Cho | Asian Languages and Literature | Korean Linguistics and Phonology and its interfaces | 612-626-0378 612-624-2304 choxx023@umn.edu |
| John J. Cogan | Educational Policy and Administration | Citizenship education and education reform, emphasis in Asian education systems | 612-625-1896 cogan002@umn.edu |
| Zuleyha Colak | Institute of Linguistics, ESL and Slavic | Turkish Language | 612-624-3331 colak003@umn.edu |
| Kathleen A. Collins | Political Science | Comparative politics, democratization/political transition and identity politics, Islam and politics, comparative post-Soviet politics, clan politics and informal institutions, civil and ethnic conflict, civil society development in Central Asia and the Caucasus | colli433@umn.edu |
| Susan Craddock | Womens' Studies/Institute for Global Studies (IGS) | AIDS and disease, health, social justice. | 612-624-6006 craddock@umn.edu |
| Nhat Dang | Asian Languages and Literature | Vietnamese Language, Translation and interpretation | 612-625-6534 dang00236@umn.edu |
| Jigna Desai | Womens' Studies, American Studies, and Asian Languages and Literatures | Asian American literature and cultural studies, feminist theory, postcolonial studies, queer/sexuality studies, South Asian diasporas, South Asian Film | 612-624-0363 |
| Keiko Emmett | Asian Languages and Literature | Japanese language | 612-626-9481 emme0007@umn.edu |
| Gennevieve J. Escure | Department of English | linguistics, sociolinguistics, Chinese-English pidgin English, Chinese language variation | 612.625.6095 excur@umn.edu |
| Kale B. Fajardo | American Studies | Globalization and Filipino/a Diaspora, Filipino/a migration and immigration to the Americas, maritime cultures and history, Philippine nationalisms, colonialism | 612-624-4190 kfajardo@umn.edu |
| Caesar E. Farah (Emeriti) | History | Arab and Ottoman history, Arabic & Islamic studies, Middle East, society and culture of people of the Fertile Crescent and North Africa | 612-624-0580 farah001@umn.edu |
| Edward L. Farmer | History | Comparative early modern history, history of Ming China, modern Chinese history, world history & global studies | 612-624-7301 efarmer@umn.edu |
| Gerald W. Fry | Educational Policy and Administration | International development education, emphasis in Southeast Asia | 612-624-0294 gwf@umn.edu |
| Kyoko Fujimoto | Asian Languages and Literature | Japanese language | 612-626-9481 fujim002@umn.edu |
| Keya Ganguly | Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature | British cultural studies, South Asian film and culture, Frankfurt school, sociology of culture, Postcolonial theory, Marxism, film studies, ethnography | 612-625-5871 612-624-8099 gangu003@umn.edu |
| Vinay K. Gidwani | Geography, Institute for Global Studies (IGS) | Post-socialism and justice, labor geographies, Marxism, identity politics and subaltern social movements, geographies of work, agroecological transformations, social theory, India | 612-625-1397 gidwa002@umn.edu |
| Paul W. Glewwe | Applied Economics | economics of education, poverty and equality in developing countries including; Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Phillippines, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Vietnam | 612.625.0225 pglewwe@umn.edu |
| Michael Goldman | Sociology, Institute for Global Studies (IGS) | Political sociology, environmental sociology, development/underdevelopment, sociology of knowledge, South and Southeast Asia, transnational sociology | mgoldman@umn.edu |
| Ian A. Greaves | School of Public Health | Lung disorders, global health issues | 612-624-6196 612-624-6669 greav001@umn.edu |
| Oren Gross | Law School | national security law and international law in Middle East and Arab-Israeli conflict | 612.624.7521 gross084@umn.edu |
| Carol Hakim | History | Nationalism and intellectual history, state formation, state-society relations, and authoritarianism in the Arab world, political and economic development of the Arab world in the late 19th- and 20th-centuries | 612-624-9043 hakimc@umn.edu |
| Karen Z. Ho | Anthropology | Asian American Studies, ethnography, feminist studies, gender studies, global capitalism, global finance, political economy, urban anthropology. | 612-626-1313 karenho@umn.edu |
| Maki Isaka | Asian Languages and Literature | Japanese theatre and literature, esotericism in Japanese art | isaka@umn.edu |
| Christopher M. Isett | History | Comparative history and social theory, economic history, late imperial and modern Chinese socio-economic and political history | 612-624-1505 isett003@umn.edu |
| Qadri M. Ismail | English Language and Literature | Disciplinarity, Feminist theory, Marxism, postcolonial literature and theory, historiography, democracy | 612-625-6374 ismai004@umn.edu |
| Indira Y. Junghare | Institute for Linguistics, ESL and Slavic | Hinduism of Midwest, Religions of South Asia, Hindi, Buddhism, international studies, linguistics, Marathi, Sanskrit, regional languages and literatures of India, Indian culture, comparative religions of South Asia | 612-624-4118 jungh001@umn.edu |
| Daniel Kelliher | Political Science | Rural China and Peasant Politics, Comparative politics | 612-624-1671 kelliher@umn.edu |
| Hisham A. Khalek | Afro-American, African Studies | Languages and cultures of Middle East and North Africa, Comparative International Development in Education, Politics, Government, and Society of the Arab World | 612-624-7809 hkhalek@umn.edu |
| Jean M. Langford | Anthropology | Tourism and the commodification of culture, poststructuralism and semiotics, immigrant perspectives on medical and mortuary disciplines of death, healing practices and medicine, epistemological conflicts of colonial and postcolonial encounters, haunting and historical memory | 612-625-4092 langf001@umn.edu |
| Diyah Larasati | Theater Arts & Dance |
|
laras001@umn.edu |
| Erika Lee | History | Migration, Race, and Ethnicity, Asian Americans, 20th-century United States, Law and Public Policy | erikalee@tc.umn.edu |
| Mai Na Lee | History | Hmong students and Asian culture | leex2701@umn.edu |
| Richard M. Lee | Psychology | Counseling psychology, ethnic minority mental health, cultural socializationg, acculturation and ethnic identity, transracial adoption, social connectedness. | 612-625-6357 richlee@umn.edu |
| Maxwell LeYang | Asian Languages and Literature | Hmong Language | 612-625-6534 leyan001@umn.edu |
| David Lipset | Anthropology | State of the Pacific, ongoing interest in relation of democratic political discourse to indigenous cultures in the insular Pacific, symbolic, political-legal, and psychological anthropology, Bakhtinian dialogism and ethnography, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River, masculinity, personhood and modernity, romance cross culturally | 612-626-8657 lipse001@umn.edu |
| Christine L. Marran | Asian Languages and Literature | Asian film, modern Japanese literature, Japanese popular culture from the 1870s to the present, early Meiji writing, especially newspapers and gesaku literature, Gender, sexuality, and identity in print and film culture, Ethics and the animal, Japanese and Asian film, Pond-building | 612-625-0174 marran@umn.edu |
| Fumiko Matsumoto | Asian Languages and Literature | Japanese Language | 612-624-5793 matsu021@umn.edu |
| Jason McGrath | Asian Languages and Literature | Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, Chinese and international cinemas; realism in fiction, film, and theory, Modernism and postmodernism, Art and the nation, Globalization and popular culture, Marxism | 612-624-2875 jmcgrath@umn.edu |
| Meredith McQuaid | International Programs | China and Law |
612-625-3025 mcqua004@umn.edu |
| Hiromi Mizuno | History | Gender and sexuality, cultural studies of science and technology, modern Japan, nationalism and colonialism, intellectual and cultural history, human rights | 612-626-7597 mizuno@umn.edu |
| Michael S. Molasky | Asian Languages and Literature | Minority literature, Jazz studies, Japanese fiction, Gender and sexuality, Cultural history, Modern Okinawan literature and criticism, Postwar Japanese fiction and cultural history, Literature under foreign occupation and colonial rule | 612-624-3827 molasky@umn.edu |
| Richa Nagar | Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, Geography, Asian Languages & Literuature, Feminist Studies | Collaborative praxis, politics of development, transnational feminisms | 612-625-2028 612-624-6006 nagar@umn.edu |
| Bic Ngo | Curriculum and Instruction | Social and cultural contexts of education, refugee/immigrant education, urban and multicultural education | 612-625-7520 bcngo@umn.edu |
| Fionnuala Ni Aolain | Law School | International Law and Human Rights Law | 612-624-2318 niaol002@umn.edu |
| Ruth L. Okediji | Law School | International intellectual property, international trade | 612-625-6475 rokediji@umn.edu |
Afro-Amer and African Studies |
African American history; African and Asian diasporic studies | 612-625-0513 ohni0001@umn.edu |
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| R. Michael Paige | Educational Policy and Administration | Comparative and International Development Education, civic education in Hong Kong and China | 612-626-7456 r-paig@umn.edu |
| Robert J. Poor | Art History | Bronze Age archaeology and East Asian art | 612-624-4396 poorx001@umn.edu |
| Ravi Prasad | Asian Languages and Literature | Hindi Language | 612-624-1092 prasad@umn.edu |
| Gloria G. Raheja | Anthropology, Institute for Global Studies (IGS) | Cultural production in India (caste, gender and colonialism), popular culture, race and class in the U.S. | 612-625-8547 raheja@umn.edu |
| Terry L. Roe | Applied Economics | Economic growth, development and trade, political economy, agricultural policy | 612-625-6706 troe@umn.edu |
| Paul Rouzer | Asian Languages and Literature | Chinese literature, poetics and poetry of China and Japan, Buddhism, traditions of the supernatural in East Asia, medieval Chinese poetry | 612-625-2564 prouzer@umn.edu |
| Carlisle F. Runge | Applied Economics | US-European agricultural trade and policy, NAFTA, GATT negotiations, natural resources policy, welfare economics | 612-625-9208 frunge@umn.edu |
| Mahmoud Sadrai | Institute for Linguistics, ESL, & Slavic Languages | Persian Language | 612-626-6655 sadrai@umn.edu |
| Simran Sahi | Economics | Hindi and Punjabi | 612.625.6353 ssahi@econ.umn.edu |
| G. S. Sahota | Asian Languages and Literatures |
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612-626-5940 |
| Arun Saldanha | Geography | Cultural production in India (caste, gender and colonialism), popular culture, race and class in the U.S. | 612-625-6080 saldanha@umn.edu |
| Ozayr Saloojee | Architecture | consultant in Islamic related architecture and design work | 612.625.0690 saloojee@umn.edu |
| Martin W. Sampson | Political Science | International Relations and foreign policy, Mideast politics, Palestine, U. S. foreign policy | 612-624-2389 marsam@umn.edu |
| Simona Sawhney | Asian Languages and Literature | South Asian literature, Sanskrit literature, Post-Colonial literature | 612-626-0591 sawhney@umn.edu |
| Renana S. Schneller | Classical and Near Eastern Studies | Hebrew language and literature, Modern and Classical Arabic language and literature, second language acquisition | 612-625-5353 612-624-1395 schne068@umn.edu |
| Anna C. Schultz | Music | intersections between religion, politics, and music in South Asia |
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| Eric S. Sheppard | Geography | Geography and economic development, Trade and uneven geographies of globalization, The spatial dynamics of capitalism, neoliberalism and its contestations, Livelihood struggles in the third world, geographic information, technologies and society, environmental justice in the Twin Cities, Urban policy and urban development | 612-625-5840 shepp001@umn.edu |
| Ajay Skaria | History, Institute for Global Studies (IGS) | Colonialism, environmental history, Indian History, Satipati, South Asia | 612-624-7565 skari002@umn.edu |
| Hooi Ling Soh | Linguistics |
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612-626-9687 sohxx001@umn.edu |
| Jin Y. Stone | Asian Languages and Literature | Modern Chinese | 612-624-2366 jinx0017@umn.edu |
| Shaden M. Tageldin | Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature | 19th- and 20th-century literatures in English, Arabic, French, Empire and postcolonial studies, Critical translation theory, Politics of language, literary form, genre, Aesthetics and “biologics” of race, nation, culture, Literatures of migration and Diaspora | 612-625-8445 612-624-8099 tageldin@umn.edu |
| Elaine Tarone | Linguistics, ESL, Slavic (ILES) | Second-language acquisition research by language teachers, genre analysis in English for specific purposes, impact of basic alphabetic literacy on second-language oracy, language play by second-language learners, interlanguage variation and a sociolinguistic theory of second-language acquisition, applied linguistics | 612-624-2023 etarone@umn.ed |
| Kenichi Tazawa | Asian Languages and Literature | Japanese | 612-626-9481 tazaw001@umn.edu |
| Bee Vang | Asian Languages and Literatures | Hmong | 612-624-1935 bvang@umn.edu |
| Ann B. Waltner | History | Traditional Chinese social history, law, historical documentation, ritual, religion, gender, analysis of historical documentation, rumor, gossip, world history, feminism | 612-624-2800 waltn001@umn.edu |
| Ling Wang | Asian Languages and Literature | Chinese | 612-624-2366 wangx333@umn.edu |
| Liping Wang | History | East Asian history, Imperial China, modern Chinese social and cultural history, Republican China, travel | 612-624-4834 lipin003@umn.edu |
| Margaret Werry | Theatre Arts and Dance | Pedagogy of/as performance, anthropological approaches to performance as social dramatrugy, critical race theory, cultural politics and performance of ethnicity, nationalism, and trans-nationalism, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, 19th century Euro-American and British colonial popular theatre and entertainment culture, performance theory and historiographic method, cultural policy and governmentality - tourism, heritage | werry001@umn.edu |
| Sang-Seok Yoon | Asian Languages and Literature | Korean | 612-626-0378 612-625-6534 yoonx048@umn.edu |
| Zhen Zou | Asian Languages and Literature | Chinese | 612-625-4826 zouxx009@umn.edu |
Boy selling beads.
Laotian art.
Finding shade in Bhagsu.
