George Adams is a Lecturer of Japanese. He has been a Lecturer of Japanese at Texas A&M University since 2004. Mr. Adams teaches first and second year courses in Japanese language. Though born in America, George Adams' experience includes having spent 14 years living and working in Japan.
Email: georgeadams@tamu.edu
Webpage: http://japan.tamu.edu/instructors.htm
Nandini Bhattacharya is associate professor of English and the convener of the South Asia Working group at Texas A&M University. Her books are _Reading the Splendid Body: Gender and Consumerism in Eighteenth-Century Writing on India_ (Delaware, 1998), and _Slavery, Colonialism and Connoisseurship: Gender and Eightenth-Century Literary Transnationalism_ (Ashgate press, 2006). She has also published articles on South Asia, women's writing, colonial and postcolonial discourse in _Cultural Critique_, _Eighteenth-Century Studies_, _Meridians_, _Journal of South Asian Popular Culture_, and other scholarly journals. Her current courses include Women of South Asia; Indian Cinema; Women, Race and the Enlightenment; and Asian and Middle Eastern Writing.
Email: nbhattac@tamu.edu
Webpage: http://www-english.tamu.edu/index.php?id=229
Olga Dror is an Assistant Professor of Asian History. Educated in the USSR, Israel, and the US, she received her Ph.D. from Cornell University. Her previous research focused on religion in Vietnam and China and contacts between Asia and the West. Currently she works on a project considering
Vietnamese identitities during the war (1965-1975). She teaches courses on the US-Vietnam War, World War II in Asia, Modern East Asia, and soon will offer a course on Communism in Asia.
Email: olgadror@tamu.edu
Webpage: http://www.tamu.edu/history/faculty/dror.htm
Yan Hong, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Health, School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center. Dr. Hong’s research interests are behavioral intervention to reduce HIV/STI risks among vulnerable populations such as migrants, high-risk women, minorities. She is also interested in interaction of mental health and health behaviors. She has worked in HIV prevention projects in China and U.S. She teaches social ecology and health behavior.
Email: yhong@srph.tamhsc.edu
Chiaki K. Johnson is a Lecturer of the Japanese language program at Texas A&M University. She was born and raised in Ibaraki prefecture, Japan. She received a B.A. degree from Ibaraki University in English Education in Japan in 2002. She obtained a M.A. degree in Applied Linguistics from Georgia State University in 2004. She has taught Japanese in Georgia for 4 years, and has taught Japanese in Texas A&M University since 2006. She teaches advanced level courses (300 and 400 levels) at Texas A&M University. She is an active member of Japan Club at Texas A&M University
Email: chiakijohnson@tamu.edu
Randolph Kluver is Director of the Institute for Pacific Asia and a Research Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. Dr. Kluver’s current research interests include the role of the Internet in Asian societies, political communication, globalization, and the political and social impact of information technologies. Dr. Kluver is one of the principal investigators of the international "Internet and Elections" project, a comparative analysis of the use of the Internet in the 2004 election cycle. This work can found in the recently published book by Routledge, "The Internet and National Elections – A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning", which Dr. Kluver co-edited.
Email: rkluver@tamu.edu
Webpage: http://ipa.tamu.edu/about/kluver.asp
Dongxiao Liu is Assistant Professor of Sociology. She is interested in understanding state-society relations in developing countries. Her empirical research includes historical comparisons of social movements, gender, and social policy in China and India. She teaches undergraduate courses in social theory and global social trends.
Email: dliu8@neo.tamu.edu
Webpage: http://sociweb.tamu.edu/faculty.php?faculty_id=64
Ranjita Misra, Ph.D, CHES, FMALRC is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University. Dr. Misra is member of the Center for the Study of Health Disparities and Intercollegiate Faculty of Nutrition. Her research areas include multi-center intervention and exploratory studies examining prevalence & risk factors for metabolic syndrome, diabetes and CVD among Asian Indians, Mexican American and African American population in the US with cross-cultural comparative studies in rural/urban India and Mexico. She serves as the Chair of the South Asian Public Health Association (SAPHA), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of South Asians nationally and globally. She teaches the International Health course in her department.
Email: misra@hlkn.tamu.edu
Webpage: http://misra.tamu.edu
Anne Morey is an associate professor in English at Texas A&M University. Her book Hollywood Outsiders: The Adaptation of the Film Industry, 1913-1934 was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2003 and deals with Hollywood's critics and co-opters in the later silent and early sound periods. She has published in Film History, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, among other venues. She is presently at work on a history of religious filmmaking in the United States from the late 19th century to the present. She teaches courses on film history, the cinemas of Japan, Italy, and England, the American film industry in various decades, the woman's film, and film noir.
Asian studies course she teaches Japanese cinema.
Email: amorey@tamu.edu
Kathleen O’Reilly does research in the areas of gender, environment and development in India. She is particularly interested in how development interventions restructure social, environmental and spatial relations. For over a decade she has been studying community participation in water resource management and women’s employment in NGOs.
Email: koreilly@geog.tamu.eduDudley L. Poston, Jr. is Professor of Sociology, the Director of Asian Studies, and the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Endowed Professor of Liberal Arts. He holds Adjunct Professorships at three universities in China: Renmin University, Fuzhou University, and Nanjing Normal University. His research focuses on the demography of China and South Korea, and the demography of homosexuality. He teaches an Asian Studies course on "Society and Population of Modern China," as well as other undergraduate and graduate sociology courses in demography and in statistics.
Email: d-poston@tamu.edu
Webpage: http://sociweb.tamu.edu/faculty/poston/
Srividya Ramasubramanian is an Assistant Professor of Communication. Her research focuses on the effects of gender and race stereotypes, especially in the South Asian context. She supervises independent research projects on mediated communication in South Asia and teaching courses on media effects, film criticism and research methods."
Email: srivi@tamu.edu
Webpage: http://comm.tamu.edu/people/profiles/ramasubramanian.html
Martin Regan, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory in the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University and is a member of the College Music Society and the Society of Composers. Since 1993, he has been interested in integrating Japanese aesthetic sensibilities into his creative work, and he is active as a composer of gendai-hougaku (contemporary music for traditional Japanese instruments) in Japan. In June 2002, his composition Shinonome no Uta (‘Song-Poem of the Eastern Clouds’) was selected for the 5th Annual Composition Competition for Traditional Japanese Instruments at the National Theater of Japan. He is affiliated as a composer and conductor in AURA-J, a chamber ensemble of Japanese instrumentalists devoted to developing new repertoire for traditional Japanese instruments and in 2005 he was awarded the Tai Hei Shakuhachi Scholarship in recognition of his efforts for advocating the Japanese performing arts abroad. He recently completed an English translation of prominent Japanese composer Minoru Miki’s orchestration/instrumentation manual, Composing for Japanese Instruments, for publication by the University of Rochester Press in 2008. His research and teaching examine the intersections between Western music theory and concepts and pedagogies from non-Western music.
Email: reganm@tamu.eduDaniel Z. Sui is Professor of Geography, Director for Geospatial Information Science and Technology (GIST), holder of the Reta A. Haynes endowed chair in geosciences at Texas A&M University. He is also a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Texas A&M Health Science Center. He holds adjuct professorships at Peking University and Beijing Normal University. His research focuses on the changing spatial structure of Chinese cities and the environmental impacts of rapid urbanization in China. He teaches an Asian Studies course on "Geography of East Asia," as well as other undergraduate and graduate sociology courses in geography, GIScience, and public health. "
Email: suidianzhi@yahoo.com
Webpage: http://geog.tamu.edu/~sui
Kazuko Suzuki is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. She specializes in International Migration, Race and Ethnic Relations, and Asian/Asian-American Studies. She has research experience in Japan as well as in the United States and Russia. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at University of California, San Diego. She taught “Race and Ethnicity in East Asia and Beyond” at Columbia University (http://www.exeas.org/syllabi/race-ethnicity-ea.html) and teaches “Gender in Asia” at Texas A&M as an Asian Studies course. Her research interests include: immigrant adaptation from an international comparative perspective; historical and regional analysis of ‘race’ beyond the Western paradigm; human trafficking in women to the United States and Japan; and gender and sexuality in Japanese popular culture media.
Email: ks2303@neo.tamu.edu
Webpage: http://sociweb.tamu.edu/faculty.php?faculty_id=33
Ming Tai-Seale, PhD, is an associate professor of health economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Texas A&M Health Science Center. Her research focuses on 1) the effect of financial and organizational incentives on practice behavior of health care providers and the subsequent impact on cost, utilization and quality of health care; 2) the economics of health care disparities; and 3) the economics of mental health services in primary care. Among the courses she teaches is an "Introduction to Health Economics."
Jyotsna Vaid is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Texas A&M University, member of the South Asia Working Group of the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, and a Trustee of the American Institute of Indian Studies. Her research focuses on psycholinguistic aspects of multiple language experience. Her studies have examined bi- and multilingual users of a variety of Asian languages and scripts. She teaches a course on the Psychology of Language (crosslisted as Introduction to International Studies) and supervises Directed Research projects (Psyc 485 or INTS 485) for students interested in gaining research skills in her Language and Cognition laboratory. She has also taught an undergraduate honors and a graduate course on The Bilingual Mind.
Email: jvaid@psych.tamu.edu
Webpage: http://people.tamu.edu/~jvaid/labweb/lab.htm
Dr. Di Wang is an Associate Professor of History, who specializes in Chinese
social and cultural history. His book Street Culture in Chengdu: Public
Space, Urban Commoners, and Local Politics, 1870-1930 (Stanford University
Press, 2003) won the Best Book (Non-North American) Award for 2005 from the
Urban History Association. His new book The Teahouse: Small Business,
Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900-1950 will be published
by Stanford University Press. He has taught seven courses on Asia, including
Modern China, Modern East Asia, Traditional East Asia, Twentieth-Century
Japan, Chinese Popular Culture since 1600, Imperial China, and Revolutions
and Reforms in 20th-Century China.
E-mail: di-wang@tamu.edu
Webpage: www.tamu.edu/history/faculty/wang.htm
Ian Weber, PhD is an Associate Professor and Director of Instructional Laboratories, in the Department of Communication. His research focuses on media in China, youth and civil society, and global media. He teaches two Asian Studies courses "Intercultural Communication" and "China, Communication & World Affairs", as well as other undergraduate and graduate courses in media studies. Dr Weber also coordinates and leads the annual China International Communication Study Abroad Program.
Email:iweber@tamu.edu
Webpage: http://comm.tamu.edu/people/profiles/weber.html
Kathryn Woodard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Performance Studies. As a pianist she specializes in repertoire that explores cross-cultural exchange particularly with Asia. Her performances and research have taken here to Korea, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey. She has collaborated with prominent musicians from Asia, including pipa virtuoso Min Xiao-Fen and the composer Huang Ruo. Her recording of "Four Studies of Peking Opera" by Ge Gan-ru with the Shanghai Quartet was recently released on New Albion Records. In 2007-2008 she is initiating a music series, "Sonic Crossroads," to explore musical exchange at Texas A&M. The first season's concerts will offer music from the Caucasus and from Japan.
Email: woodard@tamu.edu
Chunfang Zhao, is the lecturer of Chinese. She has been teaching Beginning Chinese I,II & Intermediate Chinese I since fall, 2005. Currently, she is teaching Beginning Chinese I&II.
Email: cfzhao@tamu.edu
Lu Zheng is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research focuses on China's stock market and listed firms, with topics ranging from corporate restructuring, IPO process, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, to corporate malfeasance. He teaches an Asian Studies course on "Pacific Rim Business Behavior," as well as other undergraduate and graduate sociology courses in Organizational Studies.
Email: l-zheng@tamu.edu
Webpage: http://sociweb.tamu.edu/faculty.php?faculty_id=55