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| Joyce Madancy | Director, East Asian Studies Program(History) was educated at the College of William and Mary (B.A./History 1980), Cornell
(M.A./East Asian Studies 1983) and Michigan (Ph.D./History 1996). She has made several
lengthy research visits to China to study opium suppression in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, the subject of her published articles and a book-length
manuscript. She teaches broad surveys of East Asian history and focused treatments of
popular culture and gender in East Asia. Joyce Madancy's home page |
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| Ya-chen Chen | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures & East Asian Studies Program, Union College Ya-chen Chen's home page |
| Nixi Cura | (Visual Arts) received her B.A. from Yale University (1988, East Asian Studies), her
M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (1992, History of Art and
Archaeology), and is completing her Ph.D. at the same institution. Based in Beijing
from 1998 to 2000, she traveled to Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Thailand
for research and play. Her scholarly interests include Chinese painting, the history
of ethnicity in China, and contemporary visual culture. She is an organizing member of
Beijing Ultimate. Nixi Cura's home page |
| Megan Ferry | (Modern Languages) received her B.A. from Mt. Holyoke College (1989, Asian Studies
/German), and her M.A./Ph.D. from Washington University-St. Louis (1998, Comparative
Literature). She has spent several years in China, including study and research in Taipei,
Taichung, Beijing and Shanghai. Her scholarly interests include Chinese literature, film,
and culture. She is an honorary lifetime member of the Shanghai Philharmonic. Megan Ferry's home page |
| Theodore Gilman | (Political Science) received his BA from Tufts University (1987) and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (1995). He teaches Japanese Politics, Chinese Politics, East Asian International Relations, and Urban Politics. He has worked for the Japanese government and has taught at two Japanese universities. His first book compares urban revitalization in Japan and the United States; he has also written several articles on this topic. |
| Sharon Gmelch | (Anthropology) received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara
(1975). Her primary interests are ethnicity, gender, and visual anthropology. She has
conducted research in Ireland, Alaska, and Barbados and is the author/editor of five books.
She has taught twice in Japan (1989 and 1995). Sharon Gmelch's home page |
| Brad Lewis | (Economics) |
| Jennifer Milioto Matsue | (Performing Arts and Anthropology) is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing Arts, and is also teaching in the East Asian Studies Program and Anthropology Department. Her research ranges from ethnographic work on underground popular musics to traditional art musics of Japan, with a focus on the role of women, the production of meaning through musical practice, and approaches to ethnography itself. She is currently preparing several articles for publication on the underground hardcore scene in Tokyo as well as co-editing a volume on Japanese popular music, which will include her own article on the ephemeral nature of rave culture in contemporary Japan. She is also beginning work on a book manuscript, which will explore broader underground music-making practices in Japan. Her teaching interests include topics in East Asian performing arts and culture, western art music, global popular music, world music, gender issues, cultural anthropology, and ethnographic methods. |
| Eshi Motahar | (Economics) received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of London, and his M.A.
and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University. His primary research and teaching interests
are macroeconomics and international economics. In Fall 2001 he taught a course in Japan
on comparative macroeconomic policy in Japan and the U.S. In Fall 2002 he was on a Fulbright
Scholarship at the Harvard University Vietnam Program in Ho Chi Minh City. He has been a
consultant to the World Bank on issues of foreign investment and aid. Eshi Motahar's home page |
| Linda Patrik | (Philosophy) received her B.A. (1971) from Carleton College, and her M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1978) from Northwestern University. She has recently published articles on Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and education, and she is the faculty advisor for the electronic journal I.D.E.A.S. (International Digest Electronic for Asian Studies), which publishes undergraduate research in Asian Studies. She has published an anthology in Existential literature (Wadsworth) as well as scholarly articles in aesthetics, the philosophy of archaeology, phenomenology and meditation. Her current research focuses on Buddhist ethics, and she continues to participate in the Nitartha Institute's project of transplanting the traditional academic curriculum of Tibetan Buddhist monastic universities to the west. |
| Don Thurston | (Emeritus) received his BA from Syracuse University (1951), MA and Certificate in East Asian Studies from Columbia University (1956), and Ph.D. from Columbia (1970). At Union for thirty years (1966-95), he taught courses on Chinese and Japanese history, politics, and art. His scholarly interest in politics and education resulted in a book on the Japan Teachers Union (1973). He initiated the terms abroad in Japan (1984) and China (1986) and the exchange program in Korea (1990). After receiving grants over several years from |