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Visitors
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Visiting
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 GIULIO
AGOSTINI (Buddhist Studies
Program)
After
completing a laurea in Classics and Sanskrit from the University
of Milan, Giulio Agostini earned a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from
the University of California, Berkeley. His thesis focused on doctrinal
debates about the definition of 'lay Buddhist' in ancient India.
He has published on ethics and legal issues, such as the admissibility
of abortion and of taking 'partial' lay vows, and on the history
of exegetical disagreements between competing Buddhist traditions. |
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 ZHONGMIN
CHEN (Chinese
Program)
Zhongmin Chen, is a professor at Zhejiang University, and “Zhiqiang” adjunct
professor at Shanghai University. Currently he is a visiting professor of Chinese
linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D.
from
UC Berkeley, and has about 20 years teaching experience on Chinese Linguistics
in many academic Universities located in China, Singapore and the United States.
His major research interests have been in Chinese historical linguistics, Chinese
phonology, Chinese dialectology, and experimental phonetics.
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LALITHA
GOPALAN (EALC Program)
Profile coming soon. |
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 JUNKO HABU (Japanese Program and Anthropology)
Junko Habu, Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology, received her MA in Archaeology from Keio University in Tokyo (1984), and her Ph.D, in Anthropology from McGill University (1996). Her research and teaching interests include long-term changes in the prehistoric Jomon culture of Japan, Edo Period archaeology, archaeology and Japanese identities, and sociopolitics of archaeological studies. She has conducted archaeological excavations in both Japan and North America. Her books include Ancient Jomon of Japan (2004), Hunter-Gatherers of the North Pacific Rim (Senri Ethnological Studies No. 63, co-edited with J. M. Savelle, S. Koyama and H. Hongo), Beyond Foraging and Collecting (2002, co-edited with B. Fitzhugh), and Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso Phase of the Early Jomon Period of Japan (2001).
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 LI HUANG (Chinese Program)
Li Huang is an associate professor at Peking University, China. Currently he is a visiting instructor at the Department of East Asian Language and Culture. The main courses he has taught in the past 16 years include Oral Chinese (at all levels), Intensive Chinese Reading (at all levels), Chinese Films, Diplomatic Writing in Chinese, Theories of Second Language Teaching and Learning, among others. His major research interests have been in acquisition of Chinese grammar, TCSOL pedagogy, and TCSOL material development. |
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 DIANE DIEN-MIN
LIU (Chinese Program)
Diane Liu received the first place award in the annual Republic of China Mandarin Speech Competition in 1991. With a Bachelor's degree from Chinese Culture University in Chinese Literature and Drama of Arts, she has taught Chinese literature for seven and a half years to high school students. After completing her MBA at Lindenwood University in the US, she initiated and taught fourteen years of Communication and Negotiation courses in Soochow University. In addition to her MBA degree, she also received a Certificate in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University. With this qualification, she is currently teaching Mandarin Chinese to foreign students and Chinese Literature to overseas Chinese students at both Soochow and National Taiwan Normal University. In 2006, she received an offer to teach Mandarin Chinese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota. |
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 SANJYOT
MEHENDALE (Near Eastern Studies and Buddhist Studies Programs)
Dr. Mehendale received her B.A. (Art and Archaeology) from
the University of Amsterdam and her M.A. (Art and Archaeology)
from the Rijksuniversity of Leiden, The Netherlands.
She obtained her Ph.D. (Near Eastern Studies) in 1997 from the University of
California at Berkeley. Since 1997, she has been teaching on Central Asia and
Silk Road art and archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. In
Fall 2007, she will teach “Buddhism along the Silk
Road” under the auspices
of the Group in Buddhist Studies. From 2001-2005, she was the co-director of
the Uzbek-Berkeley Archaeological Mission (UBAM); she is currently developing
a new joint archaeological project in Sri Lanka. During the same period, she
was Executive Director of the Caucasus and Central Asia Program under the auspices
of the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. Among Dr. Mehendale’s
main research concerns is a focus on the Kushan period, in particular on trade
and cultural exchange and the relationship between Kushan kingship and Buddhist
institutions. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship,
she has developed, in collaboration with the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative,
a digital archive of the Begram ivory and bone carvings, which were once housed
in the National Museum in Kabul, Afghanistan (www.ecai.org/begramweb). The
author of several articles on Silk Road art and archaeology, she is the co-editor
of
Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora (Routledge, 2005),
and is currently working on a book on the Begram carvings. Under the auspices
of the Center for Buddhist Studies, Sanjyot Mehendale serves as the program
coordinator for its Silk Road Initiative. |
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 LAN
CHIH PO (Chinese
Program)
Po Lanchih is visiting associate professor at the Institute of International and Area Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. She received her doctorate from the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley in 2001, and then she taught at Peking University in Beijing from 2001 to 2006. Her research interests encompass divergent developmental paths in China’s transitional economies, including the influence of Taiwanese direct investment on local institutional change, the globalization of producer services and the formation of China’s city-regions, and the socio-economic transformations associated with China’s (sub)urbanization process. Representative publications include “Repackaging Globalization: A Case Study of the Advertising Industry in China” in Geoforum, (2006); and “Redefining Rural Collectives in China: Land Conversion and the Emergence of Rural Shareholding Cooperatives.” Urban Studies (forthcoming, 2008). |
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JAMES ROBSON (Buddhist Studies Program)
James Robson is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He specializes in the history of Medieval Chinese Buddhism and Daoism and is particularly interested in issues of sacred geography, local religious history, talismans, and the historical development of Chan/Zen Buddhism. He is the author of "Buddhism and the Chinese Marchmount System [Wuyue]: A Case Study of the Southern Marchmount (Mt. Nanyue)" in John Lagerwey, ed. Religion and Chinese Society: Ancient and Medieval China (Hong Kong: The Chinese UP and École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 2004) and "A Tang Dynasty Chan Mummy [roushen] and a Modern Case of Furta Sacra? Investigating the Contested Bones of Shitou Xiqian," in Bernard Faure, ed. Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context (London: Routledge Curzon, 2003). He is presently completing a book manuscript entitled Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak [Nanyue 南 嶽] in Medieval China (forthcoming, Harvard Asia Center). He has also been engaged in a long-term collaborative research project with the École Française d'Extrême-Orient studying local religious statuary from Hunan province and what they can tell us about the local religious history of that region. |
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DEBORAH RUDOLPH (Chinese Program)
Profile coming soon. |
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 JENNIFER YING-CHU SHIAO (Chinese Program)
Ying-chu Jennifer Shiao graduated from the Department of Chinese Literature and Language, Beijing Normal University. She has taught Chinese at International Chinese Language Program, the former IUP, National Taiwan University, and National Zhengzhi University. She also has a Certificate of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language Proficiency issued by Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan. When not working, she likes writing Chinese novels, practicing qi-gong, cooking, and reading. |
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 JOHN
WALLACE (Japanese Program)
John Wallace teaches premodern
Japanese language and literature. He received his Ph.D. from
Stanford University in 1991. He has
taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1991–98), University of
California, Berkeley (1998–99), and Stanford University (1999–2003).
Professor Wallace specializes in Heian period women’s memoirs with an
emphasis on the rhetorical construction of self. He is the author of Objects
of Discourse: Memoirs by Women of Heian Japan (Center for Japanese Studies,
University of Michigan). He is currently working on the poetry of Ono no Komachi
and Ise
as early precursors to the romantic persona constructed by Heian memoirists.
He is also interested in the interface between traditional research on classical
Japanese literature and literary analysis that relies on modern critical thought. |
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DENNIS WASHBURN (Japanese Program)
Dennis Washburn is Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He has written and edited works on various aspects of both modern and classical Japanese culture, and has translated several novels into English. His most recent publications include a monograph,Translating Mount Fuji, an edited volume, Converting Cultures, and a translation of two novellas by Mizukami Tsutomu. He is currently preparing a critical edition of Tales of Genji for Norton. |
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LIN WU (Chinese Program)
Lin Wu is a lecturer from Xiamen University, China. She received her M.A. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics (with the specialty of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language) from Beijing Normal University in 2004, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Chinese Lexics. She has been teaching elementary and intermediate Chinese since 2002, including the UC-BNU program, PIB (Princeton in Beijing), UNC-XMU program, etc. Her major research interests are in character-expression relationship, contrastive linguistics, and TCSOL.
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