Faculty Listing

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Peter Carroll (Ph.D. Yale, 1998) Assistant Professor, History . Carroll specializes in the social and cultural history of 19th and 20th century China . His research interests include urban history, Chinese modernism, popular and material culture, gender/sexuality, and nationalism. A Fulbright recipient, he has also held fellowships with the Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges, New York University ; the Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley; and the Center for Chinese Studies, Taipei , Taiwan . He is the author of Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937 (Stanford University Press, 2006). He is currently working on a project exploring suicide and notions modern society in China , 1900-1957.

Kagan Arik (Ph.D. University of Washington), African and Asian Languages, received a Ph.D.in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and Anthropology from the University of Washington in 1999, where he specialized in Turkic and Central Asian Studies and Anthropology, an M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization from there also, and a B.A. in Oriental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches Turkish at Northwestern University, and Uzbek, Kazak and other Central Asian Studies courses at the University of Chicago. His academic interests include the cultural and linguistic anthropology of Inner Eurasia, with particular interests in oral tradition, traditional medicine and healing, and pre-Islamic religions among the Turkic peoples.

George Bond (PhD Northwestern, 1972), Professor, Religion Bond's primary research interest is Theravada Buddhism. Bond teaches Religion 210 (Introduction to Buddhism) as well as courses on the life of the Buddha, Theravada Buddhism and Buddhist Culture. He has published books on the scriptures of Buddhism and on Theravada Buddhism including a recent book on Buddhist social engagement, Buddhism At Work.

Risa Brooks (PhD University of California at San Diego), Assistant Professor, Political Science Brooks' primary research interests include civil-military relations, and Middle East politics.

Georgi Derluguian (PhD Soviet Academy of Sciences, 1990 and SUNY - Binghamton, 1995), Assistant Professor, joint appointment in Sociology and International Studies Program Derluguian's areas of interest include historical sociology, nationalism, and world-systems analysis. Before coming to Northwestern, Derluguian taught at the University of Michigan. His most recent publications include the monograph "Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography" (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

Liubov Derluguian, Visiting Lecturer, History A native of the former Soviet Union, Derluguian specializes in the Central Asian countries and cultures. She teaches History of Russia, and special topic courses on Modern Turkey.

Jillana Enteen (PhD Rutgers), Visiting Assistant Professor, English and Gender Studies Enteen teaches and writes about the internet, Postcolonial theory, Asian diaspora literature, Cultural Studies, and theories of sexuality and gender. A former teacher in China and Thailand and Fulbright Researcher, she has published essays about the use of English language terms for sexualities and genders in the urban cultures of Thailand. Her manuscript, entitled, "Virtual English: Internet Use, Language, and Global Subjects," forthcoming on Routledge Press, analyzes internet activities by Asians in diaspora, revealing participation that simultaneously challenges and ignores dominant practices and provides non-traditional interpretations of computer-mediated communication.

Sarah Fraser (Ph.D. 1996, UC Berkeley) is Chair of the Art History Department . She teaches and researches primarily in Chinese painting with an emphasis on questions of gender, national identity formation, and artistic enterprise.Â Her books include Performing the Visual: Buddhist Wall Painting Practice in China and Central Asia, 618-960. (Stanford University Press, 2004), which concerns Chinese theories of spontaneity and workshop production in the middle period. Fraser's edited volume on Buddhist material culture published by the Shanghai Fine Arts Publishers, 2003, entitled Merit, Opulence and the Buddhist Network of Wealth , contains the Chinese proceedings of a major conference she organized with Peking University in 2001. Â Her articles and essays include contributions to Artibus Asiae , Orientations , L'art de Dunhuang à la Bibliothèque nationale de France , and Images in Exchange: Cultural Transactions in Chinese Pictorial Arts . Â She has received fellowships from the Getty Center for Arts and Humanities,the American Council of Learned Societies, National Academy of Sciences, The Luce Foundation, and the NEH.Â In 1999-2000 she was appointed Directrice d'Études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. Â Fraser also has directed two international research project on Buddhist art at Northwestern. Under the auspices of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this path breaking 3-D digital archive features wall paintings and manuscripts from western China in a multimedia environment. From 1998-2002 Fraser also directed fieldwork and a conference in China with faculty from China, Japan, France, Hong Kong, U.S., and Taiwan.

Edna Grad (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1978), College Lecturer, Program of Foreign Language Education Grad is a native speaker of Hebrew who has set up and coordinated the Hebrew program of studies at Northwestern since 1979, and served as director of Program of African and Asian Languages from 1980-1983. She teaches courses in Hebrew language and literature and has taught courses in applied linguistics. Her publications include textbooks for beginners and for intermediate-level Hebrew.

Cecily Hilsdale (Ph.D. 2003, University of Chicago) Assistant Professor, Art History. Hilsdale joined our faculty as Assistant Professor of Medieval Art last autumn. Professor Hilsdale specializes on Medieval Art history with an emphasis on Byzantine Art. Her ongoing research concerns cultural exchange in the medieval Mediterranean, in particular the circulation of Byzantine luxury objects as diplomatic gifts. Other academic interests include patronage and gender, image theory, art and ritual, Neoplatonism, and medieval Spain. Prior to joining our department, Professor Hilsdale taught at the University of Kansas and previously held a two-year research and teaching post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan. Some of Professor Hilsdale's honors include: the Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship in Byzantine Studies, the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship with a full grant to Hungary, and the Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship in Archeology. Her work has appeared in the Art Bulletin and Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialog.

Richard Li-cheng Gu (PhD Oregon), Senior Lecturer, Program of African and Asian Languages Gu is a native of Beijing, who teaches Chinese language and literature at Northwestern. He has taught at Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute, University of Tibet, Middlebury College, and Princeton University prior to coming to Northwestern. His main interests are in humor and drama. His publications cover both literature and language pedagogy.

Laura Hein (PhD Wisconsin, 1986), Professor, History Hein specializes in the history of Japan in the 20th century and its international relations. She has recently completed Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth Century Japan, (University of California, scheduled for Fall 2004), which explores various ways in which economic expertise intersected with politics through a study of the lives of a tight-knit group of Japanese intellectuals. She also has a strong interest in problems of remembrance and public memory, resulting in three co-edited books with Mark Selden: Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age (1997), Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States (2000), and Islands of Discontent: Okinawan Responses to American and Japanese Power (2003)

Katherine E. Hoffman (Ph.D. Columbia University, 2000), Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Hoffman researches and teaches in the areas of linguistic and cultural anthropology, specializing in North Africa and particularly Morocco in the colonial and contemporary periods. She regularly offers undergraduate (Anth 215) and graduate (Anth 401-4) introductions to linguistic anthropology, as well as a regional ethnography course (Performance and Power in N. Africa and the Middle East - Anth 330), a discourse analysis course (Talk as Social Action - Anth 361), and other courses in methodology and expressive culture. Her research agenda focuses on Imazighen (Berbers) and other indigenous peoples, gender, language ideologies, rural-urban relations, migration, ethnomusicology, and French colonialism. Her book, entitled �We Share Walls': Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco, is forthcoming with Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (PhD Johns Hopkins University), Assistant Professor, Political Science Her research interests are in the areas of international politics, U.S. foreign policy, religion and politics and relations between the West and the Middle East , with a focus on Europe , the United States , Turkey and Iran . She is the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Forthcoming, Princeton University Press, 2007). Recent articles include �Negotiating Europe: The politics of religion and the prospects for Turkish accession to the EU', Review of International Studies (2006) and �The Political Authority of Secularism in International Relations,� European Journal of International Relations ( 2004).

Hong Jiang (M.Ed, University of Cincinnati) Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language, African and Asian Languages. Hong began teaching Chinese in the Program of African and Asian Languages in 1994. Currently she is teaching first and second year Chinese. Her research interests focus on learner motivation and proficiency-oriented approach in foreign language instruction.

Jacob Lassner (PhD Yale, 1963), Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish Civilization, History Lassner specializes in medieval Near Eastern History with an emphasis on urban structures, political culture and the background to Jewish-Muslim relations. He has held appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Rockefeller Institute (Bellagio), and the Oxford Postgraduate Centre for Hebrew Studies. He is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council, and DHL (honoris causa) Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (2000). His most recent book is titled The Middle East Remembered: Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces (2000).

Rajeev K. Kinra (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2007), History. Kinra specializes in South Asian intellectual history, particularly in early modern north India. His research draws on several linguistic traditions (including Persian, Hindi-Urdu, and Sanskrit), and speaks to a number of related themes: literary and political culture; modes of cultural translation and religious dialogue; memory and historiography; literary periodization and canonicity; Orientalist constructions of the past; and the South Asian imperial imagination, from antiquity to the present. Many of these themes are explored in his dissertation, “Secretary-Poets in Mughal India and the Ethos of Persian: The Case of Chandar Bhan ‘Brahman’”, which examines the life, Persian writings, and cultural-historical milieu of the celebrated Mughal litterateur, Chandar Bhan ‘Brahman’—who rose from a provincial clerkship in seventeenth-century Punjab all the way to the rank of imperial Chief Secretary (mir munshi) during the reign of Emperor Shah Jahan (the famous builder of the Taj Mahal, r. 1628-58). Each chapter treats some facet of Chandar Bhan’s writings and related historical or literary materials as a focal point from which to address matters of more general concern for our understanding of the long trajectory of Indo-Persian literary culture and history. In addition to review articles and opinion pieces, his current publications include “The World the Mughals Made,” an instructional manual chapter for the Longman’s Anthology of World Literature (edited by Sheldon Pollock), and he has three articles in preparation: on Dara Shukoh’s eclectic 17th-century cultural circle; on the framework of literary-historical periodicity in the Mughal poetics of taza-gu’i (“speaking the fresh/new”); and on the deep history of virtue and ethics as articulated in Indo-Persian secretarial culture.

Eunmi Lee (MA Indiana), Senior Lecturer Korean, Program of African and Asian Languages In addition to her Master's in East Asian Studies, Lee has received a B.A. in English Literature and Language from Konkuk University in Seoul, attended Yonsei Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul, taught English, and worked for Reuters News Agency in Korea as an editorial assistant. Before inaugurating the Korean language program at Northwestern in 1994, Ms. Lee was an assistant instructor in Korean at Indiana University.

William R. Leonard (PhD Michigan, 1987), Associate Professor, Anthropology Leonard's research examines human biological adaptations to ecological and social stressors among living and prehistoric populations. This work has focused heavily on how human populations adapt to changes and variation in energy availability. His current research among pastoral populations of Siberia is exploring how these groups utilize physiological and genetic responses to adapt to the severe climatic and nutritional stresses they face. Additionally, this work is also examining how ongoing social, economic and ecological changes in Russia are influencing the health of their indigenous populations. Results of Dr. Leonard's research has recently appeared in American Journal of Human Biology.

Phyllis I. Lyons (PhD Chicago, 1975), Associate Professor, African and Asian Languages and Comparative Literary Studies In the Comparative Literary Studies Program, Lyons teaches a three-quarter introduction to Japanese culture through its literature, from the eighth century to the present; and single-quarter courses on such topics as women in Japanese literature. She also teaches reading courses in Japanese at advanced levels. Lyons' area of specialization is modern Japanese fiction; she has published a study of the novelist Dazai Osamu (1909-1948), and is currently working on the novelist Tanizaki Jun'ichirÙ (1886-1965). Lyons is director of the International Studies Undergraduate Program, and chair of the University Study Abroad Committee.

Melissa Macauley Ph.D. Berkeley, 1993), Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. Macauley teaches Chinese history. She has published a book on eighteenth-century Chinese legal culture titled Social Power and Legal Culture: Litigation Masters in Late Imperial China. A recipient of Fulbright and NEH fellowships, she has also served as the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Studies at Harvard and as a Senior Research Scholar at People's University in Beijing. She is currently writing a book titled Crime and Migration in the South China Seas, 1856-1945.

Jock McLane (PhD London, 1961), Professor, History McLane teaches courses on South Asia, including History 285 (Introduction to Indian Civilization) and History 385 (Modern India). He has lived and traveled extensively in India, and also in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. He has published books on pre-Gandhian Indian nationalism and agrarian social change in eastern India in the 18th and l9th centuries. His current research focuses on how Hindu nationalists employ cultural differences in forming national identities.

Chiaki Moriguchi (PhD Stanford University), Assistant Professor, Economics Moriguchi is interested in exploring the origins of economic institutions and the dynamics of institutional change in historical context. Her current research involves the comparative historical analysis of labor markets, human resource management, and labor laws in the U.S. and Japan, and the evolution of income inequality in the U.S. and Japan.

Rami Nair (PhD Northwestern, 1998), Senior Lecturer, Program of African and Asian Languages Nair received her Masters in Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, Poland and completed her PhD in Linguistics at Northwestern University (on syllable structure and the special status of words edges). She teaches two sections of Introductory Hindi (Hindi I) and one section of Lower Intermediate Hindi (Hindi II) in the Program of African and Asian Languages.

Carl F. Petry (PhD Michigan, 1974), Professor and C. D. McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, History. A specialist in Middle Eastern history, Petry currently offers 270, Introduction to pre-modern Islamic History, 370, a three-quarter sequence surveying the Middle East during the Islamic period (550-present), 371 (Islamic Institutions)and 274 (Ancient Egypt). He also offers seminars on such subjects as the Arab-Israeli conflict, revolutionary Egypt under Nasser and Sadat, and gender relations in pre-modern Muslim societies. He has published articles examining immigration to Egypt during the 15th century and books focusing on the social organization of the 'culama' class (civilian/literary elite) of Cairo during the later Middle Ages, the political economy of medieval Egypt and biographies of the last Egyptian sultans before the Ottoman conquest of 1517. He has edited the first volume of the Cambridge History of Egypt, 640-1517, and is currently preparing a study of crime and criminal prosecution in medieval Egypt and Syria.

Christopher Pinney (Ph.D. 1987, London School of Economics), Art History. Pinney’s research has a strong geographic focus in central India: his initial ethnographic research was concerned with village-resident factory workers. Subsequently he researched popular photographic practices and the consumption of Hindu chromolithographs in the same area. His publications combine contemporary ethnography with the historical archaeology of particular media (see eg. Camera Indica and Photos of the Gods). He is currently interested in cultural spaces which conventional social theory has tended to neglect: “more than local and less than global”, and spaces of cultural flow that elude the west. In addition to ongoing projects with an Indian focus (for instance, a filmic record of two central Indian Dalit intellectuals) he is also working on visual dimensions of cultural encounters from 1492 to the present, and thinking through Kracauer’s later work and the question of ‘multiple temporalities’. Current book projects include, Lessons From Hell (concerned with popular Indian depictions of punishment), a ‘visual history’ of modern India, and Visual Encounters. During the 2006-07 academic year he participated in two panels at the annual South Asia meeting in Madison-Wisconsin, the Festival of Muslim Cultures in Manchester (UK), delivered the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library (London), and gave lectures and conference presentations on Indian photography at Cambridge (UK) and the North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies, on images of Mumbai at Warwick (UK), on the construction of Hindu divine topographies at the University of Amsterdam, on ‘corpography’ at the Royal Anthropological Institute film festival conference in Manchester (UK), on images of violence in India at a symposium concerned with the Aftershock exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (UEA, UK), and on popular visualisations of hell at Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi). During September he visited Mumbai, central India, and Delhi for research. He published commentaries on new photographic work in Source and Portfolio and completed a book manuscript, The Coming of Photography in India, based on the Panizzi Lectures for publication in early 2008.

Nasrin Qader (PhD Wisconsin, 1999), Assistant Professor, French and Comparative Literature. Qader teaches survey courses in African literature (Francophone, Anglophone and Arabic) and special topic courses on literature of the Islamic world; literature and gender; and literature and philosophy. Her research and publications focus primarily on the intersections between philosophy and literature in Francophone and Arabic literatures of Africa. She is currently working on a book project entitled Narratives of Catastrophe in Francophone African Fiction.

Stuart Ray Sarbacker (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin) Lecturer in Religion, Director of Undergraduate Studies. Sarbacker specializes in the History of Religions with a focus on South Asia . His work is centered on the relationships between Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, especially in the Indo-Tibetan region. His teaching focuses on Comparative Religion, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Along with broad introductory courses, he offers a range of topical courses on the religions of South Asia . He has written extensively on the topics of the practice of Yoga in South Asian religion and method and theory in the study of religion. Recent publications include �Enstasis and Ecstasis: A Critical Appraisal of Eliade on Yoga and Shamanism.� Journal for the Study of Religion 15, no. 1 (2002) and �Traditions in Transition: Meditative Concepts in the Development of Tantric Sadhana.� International Journal of Tantric Studies 6, no. 1 (2002). Forthcoming publications include a volume entitled Samadhi: The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga (State University of New York Press, 2005), and �The Future of Creative Hermeneutics,� in Incompatible Visions: South Asian Religion in History and Culture, ed. James Blumenthal (Oxford University Press India , 2005). His current projects include an academic volume on the history and development of the practice of yoga, and a reader of texts in translation on the topic. His recent paper presentations include �The Ecology of Yoga in Contemporary America: Askesis and Commodification (American Academy of Religion Midwest Regional Meeting , Spring 2005), �Skillful Means: What Can Buddhism Teach Us About Teaching Buddhism?� ( American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Fall 2004), �Herbs as a Means to Power in Patañjali's Yogasutra� (American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting , Fall 2004), �Is Having No View Possible?� ( American Academy of Religion Upper Midwest Regional Meeting, Spring 2004), and �Ecological Implications of the Mahavrata or �Great Vow' in Yoga� ( American Academy of Religion Midwest Regional Meeting, Spring 2003). He will teach a course on Tibetan Buddhism in the winter of 2007, and he is thinking about trying to get a team of monks in to build a mandala in the library. In the summer of 2006 he attended the World Sanskrit Conference in Edinburgh .

Junko Sato (MS Ed Massachusetts-Amherst), Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Program of African and Asian Languages. Sato taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as a teaching assistant for six years before coming to Northwestern in academic year '96-97. Her scholarly work is focused on second-language acquisition and curricular development following proficiency-oriented pedagogical principles.

Rüdiger Seesemann (Ph.D. in Islamic Studies, University of Mainz (Germany), 1993) Assistant Professor of Religion. His major fields of specialization are Islamic Mysticism, Islam and Modernity, Islam and Politics, Islamism, and Islamic Education, with a focus on the contemporary period and a regional emphasis on Africa South of the Sahara. He has published a book and several articles on Sufi orders in West Africa. Other published works examine the trajectories of Islamism in the Sudan and elsewhere in Africa. As a collaborator of Northwestern's Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa, Seesemann coordinates research on the Tijani corpus of Islamic literature and participates in a project studying popular religious books and videos in Sub-Saharan Africa. His course offerings include: Introduction to Islam, The Qur'an, Islam and the Clash of Civilizations, Islamic Political Thought, and Muslim Saints.

Victor Shih Assistant professor of political science. He is interested in political economy in developing countries broadly and how politics affect economic outcomes in China specifically. His dissertation, which is currently a book manuscript, concerns the impact of factional politics on Chinese monetary and banking policies. His current research examines how China$B!G(B s authoritarian politics affect taxation policies and fiscal transfers. He also has on-going projects on the performance of Chinese banks, signaling in elite politics, and elite selection in China.

Yumi Shiojima (MS Ed Univ. of Pennsylvania), Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Program of African and Asian Languages. Shiojima has been teaching at Northwestern since 1996. She has extensive experience in both classroom teaching and the coordination of instruction, both in the U.S. and Japan--including at Rhodes College, the Japanese School at Middlebury College and the Summer Intensive Program at the Japan Center for Michigan Universities in Hikone. Shiojima is a Fellow at the International Studies Residential College. Her scholarly interests include second language writing instruction and teacher development. Shiojima has developed and taught courses at all four year-levels in the Japanese Language Program. Intrigued by the notion of "Learning Across the Curriculum," she is currently developing courses on Japanese Writing for Academic Purposes, Functional Writing and Japanese through the Media.

Benjamin Sommer (PhD University of Chicago), Associate Professor, Religion; Director, the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern. Sommer specializes in biblical studies, ancient Judaism, and religions of the ancient Near East. Professor Sommer is currently working on several books. God's Bodies, God's Selves: Perceptions of Divinity in Ancient Israel and Its Environment will address conceptions of God's body in ancient Israel, Canaan, and Assyria, showing the ancient Near Eastern roots of conflicting understandings of God in Jewish philosophy and kabbalah. Artifact or Scripture? The Jewish Bible between History and Theology will examine whether the Bible, understood as the ancient Near Eastern document it is, can be relevant for modern Jewish thought. Dr. Sommer was recently appointed the Editor of the Psalms volumes of the Jewish Publication Society Bible Commentary Series. His first book, A Prophet Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40-66 (Stanford University Press, 1998), was awarded the Salo Wittmayer Baron Prize by the American Academy of Jewish Research. He has published articles on the Akitu (New Years) festival in Babylonian religion, the Akkadian epics of Gilgamesh, literary approaches to the Hebrew Bible, the composition of the Pentateuch, biblical theology, and Israelite prophecy. The recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Yad Hanadiv Foundation, Professor Sommer spent the 1998-1999 academic year on sabbatical at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He frequently lectures at local synagogues and Jewish centers, as well as at churches and other community institutions.

Amy Stanley (Ph.D. Harvard, 2007), History. Stanley specializes in the history of early modern Japan. She is particularly interested in women’s history, the history of gangsters and the underworld, and the formation of social policy in early modern cities and towns. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Japanese Ministry of Education, the Japan Foundation, and the Whiting Foundation, and she has studied at Kansai University in Osaka and Waseda University in Tokyo. Her dissertation, which she is currently revising for publication, explores official and popular attitudes toward the sex trade in provincial Japan between 1600 and 1868. Other recent work includes an article on adultery and punishment in Tokugawa Japan and research on education for geisha during the Meiji period.

Dr. Jili Sun (Ph.D. University Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III)) African and Asian Languages, received her B.A. in French literature in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in P.R. China (previous Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Languages). She received her Maîtrise in Teaching French as Foreign Language in University Jussieu (Paris VII) and her M.A. (DEA) of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy at University of Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) - thesis title: "Comparison of Narrative Cohesion in French and in Chinese in the Case of first and second Languages". Dr. Sun received a Ph.D in linguistics with honors in 2006 at University Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III) - thesis title: "The Acquisition of Temporality (tense and aspect) by Chinese Learners of French as second language and by French Learners of Chinese as second language". She conducts research in second language acquisition and pedagogy, interaction between language and culture, and analysis of narration. She is also interested in religious studies and has received a DEUG degree in studies of Christianity in Institute Catholic of Paris.

Noriko Taira (MS Ed Massachusetts-Amherst), College Lecturer, Coordinator of Japanese Language Program, Program of African and Asian Languages. Taira's scholarly work focuses on the development of language teaching curriculum and materials based on proficiency-oriented principles, and on intercultural communication. Taira contributed to several chapters/sections of textbooks on Japanese language, English culture and intercultural communication. Taira was in a team of a CIC-sponsored computer-assisted materials development project and worked with professors at Purdue University and University of Michigan . She took a leadership on two projects for developing the online Japanese language placement tests at Northwestern. Taira is a certified tester of Japanese Oral Proficiency Interview Test for the American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).

Sarah Teasley Assistant Professor, Art History. Sarah Teasley joins the department from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In 2006-07, she presented her work on gender and class issues in modern Japanese design and architecture in cities including London, Helsinki, Montreal, Chicago, New York and Cambridge. Her paper at the CAA annual meeting, part of a panel on beauty and femininity in East Asian art, analyzed ideas of beauty in architectural writings for male and female audiences in late nineteenth century Japan. Other papers discussed representations of urban space in Japanese cinema, and the impact of the American occupation of Japan (1945-52) on material culture and architecture in both countries. In March, she co-authored the final report of an 18-month study on Japanese houses built in the United States c. 1900, funded by a grant from the Housing Research Foundation, a Tokyo-based funding agency. She is Vice-President of the Design Studies Forum, a CAA-affiliated society, and serves on the executive committee of the Design History Workshop Japan. She spent the summer completing her Ph.D. dissertation, “The Formation of Mokuzai Kogei: Social Networks and the Ideology of Design Research in Modern Japan”, at the University of Tokyo , and will conduct research in Japan in fall 2007, before arriving in Evanston in January 2008.

Lynn Whitcomb (PhD Northwestern, 2001), Lecturer, African and Asian Languages. Whitcomb recently completed her Ph.D. in Linguistics, writing on the treatment of language variation in Arabic foreign language teaching, a topic which arose from her experiences studying Arabic both here and in Cairo (Arabic Language Institute, Center for Arabic Studies Abroad.) Her scholarly work focuses on developing and evaluating more effective ways to intergrate communicative competence- and proficiency-based approaches into foreign language teaching. Whitcomb teaches three levels of Arabic classes for the program of African and Asian Languages, concentrating primarily on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), but also providing basic exposure to several other varieties along the continuum of Arabic language types. One of her current projects in curricular development works toward the inclusion of more authentic newspaper texts in Arabic language courses at all levels.

Judith Wilks (PhD University of Chicago), African and Asian Languages. Wilks received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Middle Eastern Studies. Her scholarly work is on Turkish epic traditions, and she is also a fluent speaker of Farsi (Persian language). Judith will offer a beginner's Turkish language class in PAAL in 2003-04, with an additional single-quarter intermediate course to be offered in Spring of '04.

Jane Winston (PhD Duke), Assistant Professor, French. Winston is the author of Postcolonial Duras: Cultural Memory in Postwar France (Palgrave, 2001) and Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue (Palgrave, 2001). Her interests include contemporary theory, twentieth-century literary and cultural studies, and gender studies.

Jeffrey Winters (Ph.D. Yale University) Associate Professor. Professor Winters focuses his research and teaching in the areas of comparative and international political economy, comparative politics, state-capital relations, labor, human rights, and the politics of postcolonial states, particularly in Southeast Asia. He is also interested in international debt, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization. His central scholarly interest is in examining how power and wealth are concentrated in the hands of the few, and the effects this has on the many. His first book, "Power in Motion: Capital Mobility and the Indonesian State" (Cornell University Press, 1996), explores the highly undemocratic structural power of those who control the investment resources everyone else depends upon for their survival. With Jonathan Pincus, he co-edited "Reinventing the World Bank" (Cornell University Press, 2002). Both books were translated into Indonesian and published in Jakarta. He has also published two other books in Indonesian: in 1999, "Dosa-Dosa Politik Orde Baru" [Political Sins of Suharto's New Order], and, in 2004, "Orba Jatuh, Orba Bertahan?" [Indonesia's "New Order" Falls or Endures?]. Winters is currently working on the problem of oligarchy -- a study of the uninterrupted dominance of elites across all institutional forms and political contexts. The cases addressed include the United States, Russia, Indonesia, The Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, and Mexico.

Noriko Taira Yasohama (M.Ed., University of Massachusetts at Amherst) College Lecturer, Coordinator of Japanese Language Program. Taira has extensive training in foreign language education and curriculum development. Taira contributed to several chapters/sections of textbooks on Japanese language, English culture and intercultural communication. Taira was in a team of a CIC-sponsored computer-assisted materials development project and worked with professors at Purdue University and the University of Michigan. She took leadership on two projects for developing the online Japanese language placement tests at Northwestern. Taira is a certified tester of the Japanese Oral Proficiency Interview Test for the American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).

Brook Ziporyn (PhD Michigan), Associate Professor, Religion Ziporyn specializes in Taoism and Confucianism and has taught Buddhism and Chinese thought at the University of Michigan, Harvard University and the Chung-hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies in Taiwan. He has written several books such as: Being and Ambiguity: Philosophical Experiments with Tiantai Buddhism, Evil and/or/as the Good: Omnicentrism, Intersubjectivity, and Value Paradox in Tiantai Buddhist Thought, and The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture). His most recent book, No Buddha but the Devil: Omnicentrism, Intersubjectivity and Value Paradox in Tiantai Thought was published with CEASP, Harvard University Press.