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Members
| Name | Department | Specialization | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Allen | Asian Languages & Literature | China, Taiwan, Taipei City, Chinese poetry and poetics, Contemporary uses of the past, Colonialist Photography | 612-625-0122 jrallen@umn.edu |
| John Archer | Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature | Suburbanization, Suburban aesthetics, design, and sprawl, The American dream and suburbia, Suburban media and the single-family Home, Urban space, place, and history, Architecture and identity, Architecture and landscape in 18th and 19th century Britain, America, and India | 612-624-3830 archer@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, labor market analysis, politics and economics of the Middle East and North Africa, urban planning, poverty in developing countries, quantitative methods, women's work in developing countries | 612-625-4856 assaad@umn.edu |
| Michael N. Barnett | Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs | Middle East, humanitarianism, international affairs, international organizations | 612-626-3194 barne293@umn.edu |
| Iraj Bashiri | History/ Institute for Linguistics, ESL, & Slavic Languages | Afghanistan, Central Asian studies, communism, Intellectual 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, Middle East, Islamic world, Iran, South Asia, Japan | 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 | Guanxi, Hong Kong, market reform, research methods, Singapore, economic sociology, state socialist societies, stratification, urban China, social mobility | 612-624-9554 bianx001@umn.edu |
| Hisham Bizri | Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature | Filmmaking, Avant-Garde Film, Modernist Film, Literature, and Music, Arabic thought and poetry, Exile, memory, and identity | 612-625-8450 612-624-8099 hbizri@umn.edu |
| Timothy A. Brennan | Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature | Continental literary and cultural theory, 19th and 20th-century comparative literature, postcolonial theory, music of the African diaspora, problems of world literature and globalization, intellectuals and the media | 612-626-1638 612-624-8099 brenn032@umn.edu |
| Jeffrey Broadbent | Sociology/ Istitute for Global Studies | 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 |
| Michiko T. Buchanan | Asian Languages & Literatures | Japanese Language | 612-624-5793 buch0119@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 (Emeriti) | Journalism & Mass Communication | Media in China, 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 & Administration | Policy research, Program evaluation, International issues in higher education, Education planning in developing countries, Role of information (and information systems) in policy formulation and education planning, Government initiatives to influence practice at the school and classroom levels, with particular attention to developing countries | 612-626-8728 chapm026@umn.edu |
| Ananya Chatterjea | Theatre Arts & Dance | Aesthetics, movement, women's studies, choreography and performance, politics of cultural production, performance in global contexts, Theorizing Dancing Bodies, choreography and social justice, contemporary dance of Asia and Africa | 612-626-2280 ananya@umn.edu |
| Arthur Chen | School of Architecture | Cultural history of East meeting West: the Jesuit transportation of linear perspective to the East in the 18th century; Heritage conservation in Baku, Azerbaijan and the feasibility studies of potential nominations, such as, Valparaiso and Iquique in Chile, Macau in China, and Cranbrook Academy; Design interventions in the industrial heritage of waterfronts, developing strategies for conserving historic urban landscape, and investigating building typology and urban morphology of port cities. | 612-626-8158 chenx121@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 & Literature | Linguistics, Korean, Language Pedagogy, Old English, Phonology | 612-626-0378 612-624-2304 choxx023@umn.edu |
| John J. Cogan | Educational Policy & Administration | Citizenship Education Policy Study, Pacific Rim Civic Education Study, Schooling for the Future Study of the Asia-Pacific Region | 612-625-1896 cogan002@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 | 612-626-1672 colli433@umn.edu |
| Susan Craddock | Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies/ Institute for Global Studies | AIDS and disease, health, social justice | 612-624-6006 craddock@umn.edu |
| Joan G. Dejaeghere | Educational Policy & Administration | Policies and practice of education in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Africa, as well as South Asia and South America | 612-626-8258 deja003@umn.edu |
| Jigna Desai | Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies/ Asian American Studies | Asian American literature and cultural studies, feminist theory, postcolonial studies, queer/sexuality studies, South Asian diasporas, Immigration and media | 612-624-0363 612-624-6006 desai003@umn.edu |
| Gail L. Dubrow | History/ Asian American Studies | U.S. Urban History, U.S. Women’s History, Asian American History, Public History, Historic Preservation | 612-624-2800 dubrow@umn.edu |
| Keiko Emmett | Asian Languages & Literature | Japanese language | 612-626-9481 emme0007@umn.edu |
| Genevieve J. Escure | English | Sociolinguistics, pidgins, creoles and other contact languages, Belizean creole (Central America), endangered languages (Garifuna in Belize and Honduras), Garifuna (Belize and Honduras), African-American English, Chinese-English Pidgin English, Chinese language variation, language, gender and identity | 612-625-6095 excur@umn.edu |
| Kale B. Fajardo | Asian American Studies | Globalization/Filipine Diaspora/Pacific World, Filipine migration and immigration to the U.S. and Pacific, maritime trade & cultures/oceanic theory, Philippine nationalism/anti-colonialism, gender/sexuality/masculinities/transgenderism, women of color feminist theory/queer of color cultural productions | 612-624-4190 kfajardo@umn.edu |
| Edward L. Farmer | History | World & Global History, Comparative Early Modern History, History of Ming China, Modern Chinese History | 612-624-7301 efarmer@umn.edu |
| David Faust | Librarian | Librarian for South Asia and Middle East Studies (and Interim East Asia) | 612-624-5801 faust011@umn.edu |
| Gabrielle Ferrales | Sociology | Law and Society; Gender; Criminology and Criminal Justice; International Criminal Law; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods; Factorial Survey Methods for Empirical Analysis | 612-624-5021 ferrales@umn.edu |
| Gerald W. Fry | Educational Policy & Administration | Southeast Asia, Comparative education, International educational reform, Human resource development, Education and development, Politics of education | 612-624-0294 gwf@umn.edu |
| Kyoko Fujimoto | Asian Languages & Literature | Japanese language | 612-626-9481 fujim002@umn.edu |
| Keya Ganguly | Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature | South Asian film and culture, Frankfurt school, sociology of culture, Marxism, film studies, cultural materialism, postcolonial theory and criticism | 612-625-5871 612-624-8099 gangu003@umn.edu |
| Vinay K. Gidwani | Geography/ Institute for Global Studies | 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 | Applied econometrics, economics of education, poverty and inequality in developing countries including Cambodia, China, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Honduras, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Morocco, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Viet Nam | 612-625-0225 pglewwe@umn.edu |
| Michael Goldman | Sociology/ Institute for Global Studies | 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 caused by airborne exposures in the workplace and the general environment, agricultural health and safety issues, health and safety problems of small businesses, workers' compensation, and international environmental and occupational health issues | 612-624-6196 612-624-6669 greav001@umn.edu |
| Oren Gross | Law School | National security law, international law, international trade, Middle East, 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, United States, urban anthropology | 612-626-1313 karenho@umn.edu |
| Maki Isaka | Asian Languages & Literature | Japanese theater and literature | isaka@umn.edu |
| Christopher M. Isett | History | Late imperial and modern Chinese economic, social, legal and political history, economic history, comparative history and social theory | 612-624-1505 isett003@umn.edu |
| Qadri M. Ismail | English | Cultural studies, postcolonial literature, literary theory, gender/sexuality, historiography, democracy, human rights, the enlightenment, the british nineteenth century, cricket | 612-625-6374 ismai004@umn.edu |
| Indira Y. Junghare | Institute for Linguistics, ESL, & Slavic Languages | Buddhism, Hindi, 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 | Comparative politics, rural China and peasant politics | 612-624-1671 kelliher@umn.edu |
| Hisham A. Khalek | Asian Languages & Literature | Comparative International Development in Education, Languages and cultures of the Middle East and North Africa, Politics, Government, and Society of the Arab World | 612-624-7809 hkhalek@umn.edu |
| Amel Khalfaoui | Asian Languages & Literatures | Arabic Language | 612-626-4620 khal0035@umn.edu |
| Jane E. Kirtley | Journalism & Mass Communications | Constitutional law, EU data protection, First Amendment, free speech, freedom of information, freedom of the press, information privacy, media ethics, media law, media/military relations, national security | 612-625-9038 kirtl001@umn.edu |
| Sonja Kuftinec | Theatre Arts & Dance | Performance and social change, community-based theater,theatrical facilitation: Middle East, Balkans, 19th and 20th century American theatre, history and literature, women in theatre, performance studies, Balkan theater, Cornerstone Theater | 612-626-9238 kufti001@umn.edu |
| Jean M. Langford | Anthropology | South and Southeast Asia, death and dying, haunting, violence, and historical memory, healing practices and medicine, semiotics, poststructuralism, and deconstruction, science studies, colonial and postcolonial encounters, tourism and the commodification of culture | 612-625-4092 langf001@umn.edu |
| Diyah Larasati | Theater Arts & Dance | Dance and Performing Arts in Global Culture, Dancing Body, Tourism & Female Citizenship, Genocide/ Massacres Cultural Reconstruction, Memory of Violence and Creative Project in Post, Conflict/ War Zone (Asia), Politics of Human Rights and Creative Arts, Dancing Body in Islam of Southeas Asia | laras001@umn.edu |
| Erika Lee | History | Migration, Race, and Ethnicity, Asian Americans, 20th-century United States, Law and Public Policy | 612-624-9569 erikalee@tc.umn.edu |
| Josephine D. Lee | English/ Asian American Studies | Dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies, Asian American studies | 612-625-9510 jolee@umn.edu |
| Juavah Lee | Asian Languages & Literatures | Hmong Language | 612-624-9577 leexx048@umn.edu |
| Mai Na Lee | History/ Asian American Studies | Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Diaspora | 612-625-6124 leex2701@umn.edu |
| Richard M. Lee | Asian American Studies | Adjustment/well-being, counseling psychology, cultural socialization, ethnic identity, ethnic minority mental health, social connectedness, international adoption | 612-625-6357 richlee@umn.edu |
| Helga Leitner | Geography/ Institute for Global Studies | Austria, European Union, Europe, European cities, new immigrants, immigrant incorporation and polictics in Minnesota, utility of GIS for community organizations and neighborhood, revitalization, United States, urban and regional development, transnationalism, multiculturalism and immigrant incorporation, immigration policies and citizenship, globalization and international migration, environmental equity and justice | 612-625-9010 eqj6139@umn.edu |
| Maxwell LeYang | Asian Languages & Literature | Hmong Language | 612-625-6534 leyan001@umn.edu |
| Chi-ping Li | Asian Languages & Literatures | Chinese Language | 612-626-9746 lixxx204@umn.edu |
| Yanli Lin | Asian Languages & Literatures | Chinese Language | 612-626-9746 612-625-6534 ylin@umn.edu |
| David Lipset | Anthropology | The state in 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 |
| Deanne L. Magnusson | Educational Policy & Administration | Comparative education reform, Internationalization of education, Leadership development and policy analysis in U.S. and international education organizations | 612-626-9647 magnu002@umn.edu |
| Ann R. Markusen | Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs | Arts, culture and economic development; regional economics and planning; industrial organization; economic development, local, state, regional; industrial and occupational planning; economic impact of high technology, military spending | 612-625-8092 markusen@umn.edu |
| Christine L. Marran | Asian Languages & Literature | Japanese popular culture from the 1870s to the present, Japanese literature; 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 | 612-625-0174 marran@umn.edu |
| Nabil I. Matar | English | English 17th-century religious literature, travel writing, mysticism, modern Arabic literature, Arab-Islamic civilization | 612-626-8320 matar010@umn.edu |
| Akiko Matsumoto | Asian Languages & Literature | Japanese Language | 612-625-6534 matsu076@umn.edu |
| Fumiko Matsumoto | Asian Languages & Literature | Japanese Language | 612-624-5793 matsu021@umn.edu |
| Jason McGrath | Asian Languages & Literature | Chinese and international cinemas, Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, Realism in fiction, film, and theory, Issues of convention and intertextuality in film theory, Art and the nation, Chinese and Western Marxism | 612-624-2875 jmcgrath@umn.edu |
| Meredith McQuaid | Global Programs and Strategy Alliance | China and Law; Associate Vice President and Dean of Global Programs and Strategy Alliance |
612-625-3025 mcqua004@umn.edu |
| Hiromi Mizuno | History | Modern Japan, intellectual and cultural history, cultural studies of science and technology, nationalism and colonialism, human rights and international laws, gender and sexuality | 612-626-7597 mizuno@umn.edu |
| Sidow Abdishariff Mohammed | Asian Languages & Literatures | Evaluation of the methodologies of the Teaching of Arabic Grammar, Arabic language, linguistics,pedagogy,Islamic Civilization & African Diaspora, MiddleEastern and North, African culture | 612-624-0580 moha0160@umn.edu |
| Michael S. Molasky | Asian Languages & 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 |
| Pashmina V Murthy (Visiting) | Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies | murth035@umn.edu | |
| Richa Nagar | Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies/ Geography | Collaborative praxis, politics of development, transnational feminisms | 612-625-2028 612-624-6006 nagar@umn.edu |
| Bic Ngo | Curriculum & Instruction | Culturally relevant pedagogy, urban and multicultural education in general and immigrant education in particular | 612-625-7520 bcngo@umn.edu |
| Fionnuala Ni Aolain | Law School | International law, human rights law, national security law, and feminist legal theory | 612-624-2318 niaol002@umn.edu |
| Ruth L. Okediji | Law School | International intellectual property issues with an emphasis on the relationship between multilateral trade law and intellectual property policy, the relationship between developing and developed countries in the international intellectual property system, including economic analysis of the bargaining strategies that facilitate harmonization of intellectual property rights | 612-625-6475 rokediji@umn.edu |
| Yuichiro Onishi | Afro-Amer & African Studies | Black radicalism and internationalism, African American history, Critical Race Studies, Asian American Studies | 612-625-0513 ohni0001@umn.edu |
| R. Michael Paige | Educational Policy & Administration | Intercultural education and training, Intercultural competence, International education and exchange, Study abroad, Internationalization of education | 612-626-7456 r-paig@umn.edu |
| Lisa S. Park | Sociology | Immigration and welfare policy, Immigrant health care access, race, class & gender, Asian-American studies, Environmental inequality, Urban theory and methods | 612-624-4300 lspark@umn.edu |
| Jane Plihal | Curriculum & Instruction | Family education, Comprehensive work, community, and family education, International education | 612-624-3069 pliha001@umn.edu |
| Robert J. Poor | Art History | Bronze Age archaeology, East Asian art | 612-624-4396 poorx001@umn.edu |
| Ravi Prasad | Asian Languages & Literature | Hindi Language | 612-624-1092 prasad@umn.edu |
| Jiahong Quan | Asian Languages & Literatures | Chinese Language | 612-625-6534 jquan@umn.edu |
| Matthew Rahaim | Music | Indian music, transmission of melodic knowledge through generations of Indian vocalists via hand gesture. Other research and teaching interests include American music, Middle Easter music, early Gregorian chant notation, the politics of tuning systems, rhythmic tendencies in raga performance, Sufi-Bhakti musical syncretism, musical ethics, medical ethnomusicology, and speech melody. | 612-624-2393 schu1778@umn.edu |
| Gloria G. Raheja | Anthropology/ Institute for Global Studies | Cultural production in India (caste, gender and colonialism), ethnographic history, the politics of representation, music and industrial capitalism in Appalachia | 612-625-8547 raheja@umn.edu |
| Terry L. Roe | Applied Economics | Economic growth, development and trade, political economy, and agricultural policy | 612-625-6706 troe@umn.edu |
| Paul Rouzer | Asian Languages & 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 |
| Mahmoud Sadrai | Institute for Linguistics, ESL, & Slavic Languages | Persian Language | 612-626-6655 sadrai@umn.edu |
| Simran Sahi | Economics | International trade and finance, Hindi and Punjabi | 612.625.6353 ssahi@econ.umn.edu |
| Arun Saldanha | Geography | Music, Poststructuralism, especially Deleuze, Tourism (Goa, India), Race relations, Feminist theory, Colonialism (Goa, India) | 612-625-6080 saldanha@umn.edu |
| Ozayr Saloojee | School of Architecture | Tradition and modernity in Islamic Art and Architecture | 612.625.0690 saloojee@umn.edu |
| Martin W. Sampson | Political Science | International relations and foreign policy, Mideast politics, U. S. foreign policy, International environmental politics | 612-624-2389 marsam@umn.edu |
| Simona Sawhney | Asian Languages & Literature | South Asian literature, Sanskrit literature, Post-Colonial Literature and Theory, Literary Theory | 612-626-0591 sawhney@umn.edu |
| Jani Scandura | English | Cultural studies and critical theory, esp. theories of modernity, materiality, subjectivity; 20th century North American literatures, film, visual and mass culture; European, American and (recently) Japanese modernisms; theories of space and place; stuff--theories of matter, objects, things, refuse, trash; sound and acoustic culture, memory; history of science, medicine and its intersections with philosophy; writing in cultures impacted by US imperialisms (especially Cuba) | 612-625-9017 jani@umn.edu |
| Byron J. Schneider | Educational Policy & Administration | World-wide youth development education | 612-624-2590 schne003@umn.edu |
| Renana S. Schneller | Classical & Near Eastern Studies | Modern Hebrew Language and Literature, Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew Poetry, Language Pedagogy, Modern Arabic Language and Literature, Classical Arabic, Judeo Arabic | 612-625-5353 612-624-1395 schne068@umn.edu |
| Daniel J. Schroeter | History | Jewish studies, Middle East, North Africa, World history | 612-624-2800 schro800@umn.edu |
| Eric S. Sheppard | Geography | Trade and uneven geographies of globalization, geography of economic development, 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 |
| Virajita Singh | School of Architecture | Issues of sustainability and cultural change, conducting post occupancy evaluations on buildings, developing building related knowledge bases. | 612-625-3447 singh023@umn.edu |
| Ajay Skaria | History/ Institute for Global Studies | Colonialism, environmental history, Indian History, Satipati, South Asia | 612-624-7565 skari002@umn.edu |
| Hooi Ling Soh | Institute for Linguistics, ESL, & Slavic Languages | Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Chinese and Malay Linguistics | 612-626-9687 sohxx001@umn.edu |
| Catherine A. Solheim | Family Social Science | Family Resource Management, Family asset Development, Family Policy, Families and Culture, Human Ecology Theory, Global Family Systems | 612-625-1201 csolheim@umn.edu |
| Hoon Song | Anthropology | Suicide, US and East Asia, Sovereignty, Whiteness, Cyberspace/culture, Biopolitics, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis | 612-624-8980 songx080@umn.edu |
| Jin Y. Stone | Asian Languages & Literature | Modern Chinese, Chinese Language |
612-624-2366 jinx0017@umn.edu |
| Dara Strolovitch | Political Science | American Politics, Interest Groups and Social Movements, Politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality, Political Representation, Social science approaches to the study of inequalities | 612-626-0213 dzs@umn.edu |
| Xin Su | Asian Languages & Literatures | Chinese Language | 612-626-9746 612-625-6534 xsu@umn.edu |
| Kaori Suzuki | Asian Languages & Literatures | Japanese Language | ksuzuki@umn.edu |
| Teresa T. Swartz | Asian American Studies | Race and ethnicity, Gender, Families, Care work, Qualitative research methods, Relations, between young adults and their parents, Foster Care | 612-626-1862 tswartz@umn.edu |
| Polly E. Szatrowski | Institute for Linguistics, ESL, & Slavic Languages | Japanese language and linguistics | 612-624-1860 szatr001@umn.edu |
| Shaden M. Tageldin | Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature | 19th- and 20th-century literatures in English, Arabic, French, Empire and postcolonial studies, Critical translation theory, Politics of language, literary form, genre, Histories and ideologies of comparative literature, Aesthetics and biologics of race, nation, culture, Literatures of migration and diaspora | 612-625-8445 612-624-8099 tageldin@umn.edu |
| Elaine Tarone | Institute for Linguistics, ESL, & Slavic Languages | Second language acquisition, learner language analysis by language teachers, impact of alphabetic literacy on oral processing in second-language acquisition, applied linguistics, bilingualism | 612-624-2023 etarone@umn.edu |
| Kenichi Tazawa | Asian Languages & Literature | Japanese Language | 612-626-9481 tazaw001@umn.edu |
| Diane J. Tedick | Curriculum & Instruction | The pedagogy required for the successful integration of language and content instruction, particularly in dual language and language immersion contexts, where a world language (e.g., Chinese, Spanish), or indigenous language (e.g., Ojibwe, Yup’ik) is used as the vehicle for teaching academic subject matter | 612-625-1081 djtedick@umn.edu |
| Sachiko Terui | Asian Languages & Literatures | Japanese Language | 612-625-6534 terui@umn.edu |
| Leigh Turner | School of Public Health | Ethical issues related to the emergence of a global marketplace in health care, ethical and social analysis of cross-border commercial organ transplantation, "medical tourism", offshore cosmetic surgery clinics, "stem cell tourism", "reproductive tourism", "dental tourism", international teleradiology, the establishment of regional bioeconomies in East Asia, cross-border shopping for medications, global migration of health care providers, and global trade in health services | 612-626-4830 turne462@umn.edu |
| Bee Vang | Asian Languages & Literature | Hmong Language | 612-624-1935 bvang@umn.edu |
| Eva von Dassow | Classical & Near Eastern Studies/ History | Akkadian, ancient Near Eastern studies, Ugaritic, Mesopotamia | 612-626-4787 vonda001@umn.edu |
| Ann B. Waltner | History | Ritual, religion, traditional Chinese social history, law, gender, analysis of historical documentation, rumor, gossip, chinese history, world history, feminism | 612-624-2800 waltn001@umn.edu |
| Ling Wang | Asian Languages & Literature | Chinese Language | 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 |
| Gabriel Weisberg | Art History | 19th- and early 20th century art, art in France, Art Nouveau, decorative art, graphic art, Italian Renaissance, Japanese art influences (Japonisme), Montmartre | 612-624-0323 weisb001@umn.edu |
| Margaret L. Werry | Theatre Arts & 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, fil | werry001@umn.edu |
| Travis Workman | Asian Languages and Literatures | Korean literature, film, and intellectual history; state violence and historical memory; melodrama; nationalism; humanism and its critiques | tworkman@umn.edu |
| Blong Xiong | Family Social Science | Parent-adolescent Relationships in Immigrant Families, Adolescent Adjustment, Parent Education | 612-625-5882 xiong008@umn.edu |
| Tetsuya Yamada | Art | Sculpture, ceramics, art history, Japanese art | 612-625-3228 tyamada@umn.edu |
| Kia Yang | Asian Languages & Literature | Hmong Language | 612-624-2304 yang0864@umn.edu |
| Sang-Seok Yoon | Asian Languages & Literature | Korean Language | 612-626-0378 yoonx048@umn.edu |
| Hong Zhang | Asian Languages & Literature | Chinese Calligraphy | 612-624-2366 zhang076@umn.edu |
| Zhen Zou | Asian Languages & Literature | Chinese Language | 612-625-4826 zouxx009@umn.edu |
Boy selling beads.
Laotian art.
Finding shade in Bhagsu.
