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School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures [Chinese Language Program]

David Prager Branner
Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Washington, 1997.
Areas of specialization: Chinese dialect and historical linguistics; lexicography and diaskeuasis, the history of the script; linguistic field methods.

Fang-yi Chao
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1999.
Areas of specialization: Chinese philology and historical grammar.

Hsiu-Fen Chien
Lecturer. M.A., National Taiwan Normal University, 2004.
Areas of specialization: Teaching Chinese as a Second Language.

Mei Kong
Lecturer. M.A., Nanjing University, 1989, Chinese Language; M.A., Georgetown University, 2004.
Areas of specialization: Teaching Chinese as a Second Language.

Jung-Jung Lee
Lecturer. M.A., University of Iowa, 1998.
Areas of specialization: Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language.

Huichun Liang
Lecturer. M.A., Governors State University, Illinois, 1999.
Areas of specialization: English.

Jianmei Liu
Associate Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University, 1997.
Areas of specialization: Modern Chinese Literature, Classical Chinese Literature, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies and Cultural History.

Yuli Wang
Lecturer. M.A., Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 1997.
Areas of specialization: Chinese Calligraphy (brush-writing), Chinese Classical Music, Chinese Traditional Art.

Hongen Yao
Lecturer. M.A., East China Normal University, 1988. M.Ed. Texas Tech University, 1994.
Areas of specialization: Bilingual Education.

Aijun Zhu
Lecturer. Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2005.
Areas of specialization: Modern Chinese literature, Contemporary Chinese Culture, Asian American literature, Women's Literature, Feminist Theory, Flm/Cultural Studies and Critical Theory.

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures [Japanese Language Program]

Makiko Inoue
Lecturer. B.A., Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan, 2001; M.A., Ohio State University, 2005.

Miki Kashima
Lecturer. B.A., Wilson College, 2002; M.A., Ohio State University, 2005.

Eleanor Kerkham
Associate Professor and Advisor, Japanese Minor program. B.A., Pomona College, 1961; M.A., Stanford University, 1963; Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington, 1974.

Michele Mason
Assistant Professor. Ph.D. in Modern Japanese Literature from the University of California, Irvine (2005).
Areas of specialization: Modern Japanese literature and history, Colonial and postcolonial studies, Gender and feminist studies, and Masculinity studies.

Eiko Miura
Lecturer and Placement Test Coordinator. B.A., Kyoto University-Japan, 1962.

Robert Ramsey
Professor and Advisor, Japanese Major program.

Etsuko Yamakita
Lecturer. B.A., Kobe Kaisei Women's College, 1977; B.S., University of Maryland-College Park, 1984; M.A., University of Oregon, 1989.

Lindsay Yotsukura
Associate Professor and Coordinator. Japanese language program Advisor. Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from The Ohio State University in 1997.
Areas of specialization: Japanese linguistics, focusing on cross-cultural pragmatics and discourse analysis from a corpus-linguistic perspective.

School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures [Korean Language Program]

S. Robert Ramsey
Professor.
Areas of specialization: The historical development of Japanese and Korean and the historical relationships between the two languages.

Younghi K. Ramsey
Instructor. Yonsei University in Korean language and literature.
Areas of specialization: Korean language. Asian Art.

Department of Anthropology

John D. Finch
Lecturer.

Department of Art History and Archaeology

Jason Kuo
Professor. Ph.D. University of Michigan.
Areas of specialization: Chinese Art.

Yui Suzuki
Assistant Professor. Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles.
Areas of specialization: Medieval Japanese Art

Alicia Volk
Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Yale University.
Areas of specialization: Modern Japanese Art.

College of Behavioral & Social Sciences

Robert M. Schwab
Professor. Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (1980).
Areas of specialization: Public economics with an emphasis on education policy.

Lois T. Vietri
Lecturer. Director, Maryland Vietnam Partnership.

Department of Education Policy and Leadership

Jing Lin
Associate Professor. Ed.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Areas of specialization: Social and political transformations in China since 1978, Education for ethnic minorities.

Department of Education Policy Studies

Barbara Finkelstein
Professor. B.A., Barnard College, 1959; M.A., Columbia University Teachers College, 1960; Ed.D., 1970.

Department of English

Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux
Associate Professor. Associate Dean, College of Arts and Humanities. Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1980).
Areas of specialization: Modernism, Modern British.

Department of Entomology

Michael Co Ma
Professor. Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison in Entomology (1978).
Areas of specialization: Insect Endocrinology, Reproductive Physiology, Virology.

Department of Government & Politics

Douglas Grob
Associate Professor. Ph.D. Stanford University (2001).
Areas of specialization: Political Economy of Institutions, Rule of Law, Chinese Legal Reform, American Political Development

Scott L. Kastner
Associate Professor. Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 2003.
Areas of specialization: International Relations, International Political Economy, International Politics of East Asia, Relations across the Taiwan Strait.

Soo Yeon Kim
Associate Professor. Ph.D. Political Science, Yale University.
Areas of specialization: Trade and Security, International Political Economy and International Relations, Political Methodology, East Asian Security and Political Economy

Margaret M. Pearson
Professor. Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University (1987).
Areas of specialization: The evolution of China's regulatory state, China's participation in the WTO.

Lois Vietri
Lecturer. Ph.D. University of Maryland-College Park (1981).
Areas of specialization: American Political Institutions, Developmental Public Administration, Southeast Asia, and Curriculum Development. Research interests include the normalization process, systems approaches to problem solving, and the organizational development challenges in communist and post-communist societies.

Department of History

James Zheng Gao
Associate Professor. Ph.D. Yale 1994.
Areas of specialization: China, East Asia

Charles R. Lilley
Lecturer.

Marlene J. Mayo
Associate Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University, 1961.
Areas of specialization: Modern Japanese History, East Asian History

Department of Mathematics

Denny Gulick
Professor . B.A., Oberlin College, 1958; M.A., Yale University, 1960; Ph.D., 1963.

School of Music

Robert C. Provine
Professor. Ph.D. in Music Harvard University.
Areas of specialization: Ethnomusicology, Korean music, East Asian music.

J. Lawrence Witzleben
Associate Professor. Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, University of Pittsburgh.
Areas of specialization: Ethnomusicology, Chinese music.

Department of Nutrition and Food Science

Y. Martin Lo
Associate Professor. Ph.D. (1995) Food Science & Technology/Biochemical Engineering, Ohio State University.
Areas of specialization: Integrating biotechnology and process engineering for the advancement of food safety and value-added food products.

Department of Women's Studies

Seung-kyung Kim
Professor. Ph.D. (1990), Certificate of Women's Studies (1990), and M.A. (1987) City University of New York Graduate Center.
Areas of specialization: Women and work, Anthropology of gender, Feminist theory and movements, Asian and Asian-American women.

Institute for Global Chinese Affairs

Rebecca W. McGinnis
China Programs Coordinator.

Libraries

Yalan Qi

Eiko Sakaguchi

Kenichiro Shimada

Frank Joseph Shulman

Kenneth K. Tanaka

Amy P. Wasserstrom

Jean Y.J. Wu

UGST-Honors Program

Miyuki Kagawa Yoshikami
Lecturer. B.A., California State University-Los Angeles, 1960; M.A., University of Maryland-College Park, 1990; Ph.D., 1993.
Areas of specialization: Japanese music and performing arts