Faculty and Staff Overview A team of four full-time staff oversee the Chinese Studies program. An academic director recruits and manages area studies faculty, directs the program's curriculum and teaches 21st Century Beijing. A resident director arranges field trips and activities, and helps students adjust to life in China. A Chinese language coordinator oversees the language curriculum and faculty, and manages Chinese language classes. Finally, a program assistant offers support to all staff members and students on day-to-day issues.
To oversee the area studies program, the Academic Director works in conjunction with CET's Chinese Studies Advisory Board. Area studies courses are taught in English by American or Chinese faculty. American faculty are typically scholars from US universities on sabbatical or summer leave. In addition, some may be ABD graduate students who are conducting dissertation research while in Beijing or scholars, trained in the US, who are currently living in Beijing and working in non-academic fields, such as business, media, etc. Chinese faculty typically come to CET from Capital Normal University, the program's host university. In addition, some are recruited from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, one of China's most prestigious research institutions.
To oversee the Chinese language curriculum, the Chinese Language Coordinator works with the Academic Director at the Intensive Chinese Language in Beijing program, with assistance from CET's Chinese Language Advisory Board. CET's agreement with Capital Normal University provides us full autonomy in hiring Chinese language faculty. Therefore, language faculty for this program are selected from our pool of experienced faculty at the Intensive Chinese Language in Beijing program.
David Moser, Academic Director David Moser holds a Master's and a Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan, with a major in Chinese linguistics and philosophy. His Ph.D. dissertation "Abstract Thinking and Thought in Early Chinese and Classical Greek" won the Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award in 1996. He has been a visiting scholar at Beijing University, and a visiting professor for five years at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, where he taught courses in Translation Theory and Psycholinguistics. Moser has also worked as a program advisor, translator and host at China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing. Since 1992, he has appeared frequently on Chinese TV as a foreign expert, host, and occasional performer of a kind of Chinese stand-up comedy form called xiangsheng or 'crosstalk'. He lives in Beijing with his wife Lihua and daughter Leah, and regularly plays piano with various Beijing jazz groups.
Elliott Bernstein, Resident Director Elliott Bernstein joined CET in 2008, and has coordinated CET's Janterm and Chinese Studies programs as well as Journeys and short-term programs for schools including the University of Chicago, University of Pittsburgh, and University of Texas-Austin. Graduating from Columbia University's department of East Asian Languages and Cultures with a Master's Degree in Modern Chinese History, he then continued his graduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. Elliott's passion for the study of Chinese language and culture began in 1999 on a summer study abroad trip to Beijing with Northfield Mount Hermon School, and he has been coming back to the city ever since. His research interests include Chinese internet and technology, history, food, gender relations, and Chinese language, translation, and pedagogy. Occasionally writing for national publications on issues of culture and history, Elliott has also translated numerous articles for publication, and is currently writing a book for Chinese students interested in international business.
Liu Fang, Chinese Language Coordinator Liu Fang has taught at CET for nearly five years since obtaining her MA in Applied Linguistics and BA in Education from Beijing Normal University . During her time with CET Liu Fang has been a language instructor at Beijing Chinese Language, Beijing Chinese Studies and in the Hangzhou Immersion Programs. She has also been a language instructor at Middlebury College for two summer terms and one full academic year. She has been the Academic Coordinator at Chinese Studies since 2008.
An Yanming Dr. An Yanming currently serves as an Associate Professor of Chinese and Philosophy at Clemson University. He received his Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Michigan in 1997, and his M.A. and B.A. in Philosophy from FudanUniversity in 1985 and 1982 respectively. Before coming to the U.S. in 1991, he served as both a research fellow, specializing in the philosophy of history and society, and deputy director of a research section at the Institute of Philosophy, ChineseAcademy of Social Sciences (1985-1991). He joined the Clemson faculty in 1999, after teaching for one year each at the University of Michigan and PrincetonUniversity. The courses he has taught in the U.S include Philosophy in Ancient China, Philosophy in Modern China, Buddhism in China, Comparative Philosophy, Daoism and Chan Buddhism, Introduction to China, and Chinese language at all levels, modern and classical. Among his extensive publications is a monograph in English that appeared this month, The Idea of Cheng (Sincerity/Reality) in the History of Chinese Philosophy. Right now he is working on a project concerning Wilhelm Dilthey's theory of historical understanding and traditional Chinese historiography. In addition, he directed the first Clemson summer program to China in 2001, and co-directed the same program to China in 2002, 2004, and 2005.
Dorothy Borei Dr. Dorothy Borei, Professor of History at GuilfordCollege in Greensboro, North Carolina, has a background in both history (B.A. from Lycoming College in 1964) and French language and literature (M.A. from SUNY Binghamton in 1967). She received her Ph.D. in Oriental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 and has been teaching at GuilfordCollege since 1979. She served as Guilford's Director of International /Intercultural Studies until 2005 and has acted as Faculty Director for Guilford's Semester Study Abroad in China four times since 1990 (2006, included). She has published numerous articles on Chinese history and has been active in a variety of professional organizations, including the Southeast Region/Association for Asian Studies (President, 1999-2000) and the ASIANetwork (Board of Directors, 1992-95, and Director of the Luce Consultancy Program, 1995-98). CET is thrilled to have Dr. Borei serve as Beijing Chinese Studies program faculty in the fall of 2006.
Rebecca Clothey Dr. Rebecca Clothey has been involved with CET's programs for many years. Since 1996, she has served as Student Services Coordinator, Beijing Resident Director, Instructor of Chinese Society Today, consultant for CET's Jewish Studies in Prague program and, most recently, member of CET's Chinese Studies Advisory Board. Dr. Clothey received her Ph.D. in Education from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004, her M.A. in International Communication from AmericanUniversity in 1996 and her B.A. in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh in 1991. Her areas of specialization include comparative education policy, education in Asia and ethnic minority education. In addition to her extensive experience in the classroom, Dr. Clothey has also served as a research assistant at the RAND Corporation, where she focused on policy analysis, and educational writer for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), where her focus was the coordination of elections training in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Cui Shuqin earned a Ph.D. in Culture and Cinema Studies from the University of Michigan in 1996.For the past decade she has been one of the most prolific and influential scholars in the field of Chinese cinema, and her monograph, Women Through the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema, was published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2003, to much critical acclaim. She is also an analyst of contemporary Chinese cultural trends and Chinese literature.From 2003 to 2005 she was CET's summer Academic Director and an advisory board member.
Deng Xiaosong Deng Xiaosong holds two Master's degrees, one in Chinese Literature and Religion from the University of Iowa, and Master's in Buddhist Studies from the Graduate Institute of Pali and Buddhist Studies, Kelaniya University, Colombo, Sri Lanka.He has also taught classes in Chinese and Japanese philosophy in the Philosophy Department of the University of Colorado.In addition to his philosophical interests, Deng also works as the host of a Beijing TV talk show called Common Ground, which each episode deals with East-West cross-cultural differences, aspects of Chinese life and modernization, and problems of foreigners in Chinese culture.
Judith Farquhar is Max Palevsky Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the College at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include traditional Chinese medicine in modern China, urban popular culture, and anthropological approaches to both a textual tradition and to everyday bodily life. She is the author of Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine (1994) and Appetites: Food and Sex in Postsocialist China (2002), and co-editor of Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life (2007). Her current research focuses on popular life-nurturing practices in contemporary Beijing.
Andrew Field "My interest in China began as a freshman at DartmouthCollege in 1987, when I took an introductory Chinese language course. Subsequent language training in Taiwan in 1988 and a trip through China in 1989-9 whetted my appetite for further study. After majoring in Asian Studies at Dartmouth College (BA 1991), I immediately started a PhD program at Columbia University in East Asian Languages and Cultures (MA 1995; PhD 2001), focusing on modern Chinese history.During that program I spent a year of intensive language training at the StanfordCenter in Taipei (1993-4), and in 1996 embarked for China once again to undertake dissertation research. Since then I have returned to China many times in the past ten years, and have accumulated around four years of living experience there, mostly in Shanghai. The focus of my dissertation research was the nightlife industry that emerged in Shanghai in the 1920s and continued to flourish in the city through the 1940s, despite (or perhaps because of) the forces of war and revolution raging in China during that era. As well as studying the dance halls, cabarets, and nightclubs of Old Shanghai through newspapers, magazines, books, and films from that era, as well as police and government archives, I also spent a great deal of time in the nightclubs of contemporary Shanghai. This has resulted in two book projects, one on nightlife and modernity in Interwar Shanghai (forthcoming), and another on nightlife in contemporary China (also forthcoming). In addition I have self-produced several films highlighting various aspects of contemporary urban culture in Shanghai and Tokyo, as well as several short films on important historical sites in China, some of which are posted on my websites and may be downloaded and viewed by the public. I plan to continue filming and photographing everyday life in China, focusing on the rapid changes that are taking place in China's large cities such as Shanghai and Beijing. Another project that I am working on is a case study of the murder of a Japanese naval officer in Shanghai in 1935, which had tremendous repercussions for Sino-Japanese relations in the era leading up to Japan's full-scale invasion of China in 1937. While overburdened by these multiple projects, I am still committed to teaching. At UNSW in Sydney, Australia, I teach courses on Chinese Civilization, Modern China, and a special course on Nightlife and the Metropolis." Dr. Field's new website is: http://shanghaijournal.squarespace.com.
Marcia Frost Dr. Marcia Frost serves as Assistant Professor of Economics and East Asian Studies at WittenbergUniversity, specializing in economic history and development. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, and has taught at institutions such as DenisonUniversity, GuildfordCollege and GrinnellCollege. She has taught a wide variety of courses, from "Public Policy and Finance" to "Economies in Transition" to "The Silk Road". She actively serves in many professional organizations, such as the American Economic Association, the Association for Asian Studies and the Social Science History Association. During the Summer 2007 term, she will be teaching a course on "China's Economic Transformation and Development" at CET's Chinese Studies program in Beijing.
W. Chad Futrell W. Chad Futrell is a Ph.D. candidate in the field of Development Sociology at CornellUniversity.He is currently writing his doctoral dissertation on the "Emergence of Transnational Environmental Civil Society in East Asia".Having studied Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.A. 1996) and Philosophy at the University of Sussex, Chad first came to East Asia in 1996.Since then he has split his time between China and South Korea while working with numerous NGOs, most notably Friends of Nature in Beijing and the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement in Seoul.After completing the coursework for an MPS in Environmental Management at Cornell, he transferred to the field of Development Sociology where he received his MS.Chad also received a Certificate of Advanced Chinese Language from the Cornell FALCON/Tsinghua University IUP program in 2004.He was a Korea Foundation fellow in 2005, through which he studied Korean at SogangUniversity and completed the Korean portion of his doctoral fieldwork.He most recently completed a year of fieldwork in China through the auspices of the Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowship.He has published articles on environmental conservation and NGOs in Korea and China, as well as China's history and American agriculture.
Elvira Hammond Elvira Hammond is currently a College Assistant Professor in History at New Mexico State University where she teaches courses in Asian History and Chinese Literature. She is also the Co-Director of the Confucius Institute at NMSU where she oversees the Chinese language in the public schools program. Prior to teaching in New Mexico, she worked for many years for CET in Beijing, developing and leading educational programs for American students of all ages. (She was a student on the first CET-Wellesley College Spring Semester in Beijing in 1983.) She holds a Masters Degree in Chinese Language and Literature from Stanford University. Having traveled widely in China and extensively in Asia for educational and business purposes, Ms. Hammond has also been a study leader for Smithsonian Journeys and National Geographic Expeditions China programs since 2001.
Kenneth Hammond Ken Hammond first traveled to China in 1982 to study Modern Chinese in the inaugural CET Summer Program, and wound up working for CET in Beijing and Boston until 1987. He completed his PhD in History and East Asian Languages at Harvard in 1994, and has taught at New MexicoStateUniversity for the past 12 years. He travels regularly to China for research, and spent six months as a visiting scholar at the History Institute of the ChineseAcademy of Social Sciences in 1999. In 2002-03 he was a visiting fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. He is past president of the Society for Ming Studies, and currently serves as a member of the Society's Board of Directors. He has published numerous articles on Chinese history and edited a reader in Chinese biography, as well as produced a 36 lecture series on Chinese history on CD and DVD for the Teaching Company.
James Hevia
James Hevia's research has focused on empire and imperialism in eastern and central Asia. Primarily dealing with the British empire in India and Southeast Asia and the Qing empire in China, the specific concerns have been with the causes and justifications for conflict; how empire in Asia became normalized within Europe through markets, exhibitions and various forms of public media; and how the events of the nineteenth century are remembered in contemporary China. Current research centers on how European empires in Asia developed and became dependent upon the production of useful knowledge about populations and geography to maintain themselves. The focus is on British military intelligence in India from 1870 through the interwar period. In order to produce authoritative estimations of threats to British hegemony, military engineers, cartographers, statisticians, and translators created an information system that linked their "reconnaissance" missions to their vast library of contemporary source materials in multiple languages from northeast, southeast and south Asia, the Middle East and east Africa.
Dr. Vannina Pomonti earned her Ph.D. in Envirnomental Science from the University of Orleans in 2003. Dr. Pomonti's particular area of research focuses on the environmental impact of automobile pollution in urban areas. Dr. Pomonti worked previously as a free lance journalist on environmental issues and an expert on environmental issues for the French embassy in Beijing. Dr. Pomonti, a native French speaker, has published numerous articles on the environmental impact of automotive traffic on Beijing in French and English.
Liang Zhanjun Dr. Liang Zhanjun currently serves as an Associate Professor of History at CapitolNormalUniversity. He received his Ph.D., MA and BA in History from that institution in 1998, 1993 and 1990 respectively. In 2003-04, he was a Visiting Scholar at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has taught courses for both Chinese and foreign students on topics such as modern world history, modern international relations, the history of the Second World War, and general Chinese history and culture. Dr. Liang's research interests focus on great powers diplomacy and international relations in the twentieth century. He is the author of numerous papers and articles, and the recipient of many honors, including the 2002 award for Excellence in Teaching Achievement, presented by the PRC's Ministry of Education.
Ma Zhao "I was born into an historian's family and grew up in Beijing. Like most kids in the city, I struggled with scary physics and bewildering mathematics for years in middle and high schools while trying to get into college. In 1992, a decent score on the college entrance exams sent me to Lanzhou, the geographical center of China, to start my undergraduate years. After working on English language and literature for four years, I finally found out that I was more interested in the Emperor Qianlong's autocratic rule than in Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to the summer's day?" Thus, I chose Chinese history for my graduate study. I have been studying at the JohnsHopkinsUniversity for my Ph.D. degree since 2000. My dissertation research focuses on women's desertion in Beijing over the course of the tumultuous 1940s, a decade of civil war and the Japanese occupation, of urbanization and socioeconomic transition. Relying upon criminal case files on bigamy, adultery and abduction, I attempt to investigate how women living in the courtyard neighborhoods understood the meaning of the institution of marriage and family, as well as how judicial officials handled women's desertion to resolve the tension between the early twentieth-century laws that made the individual central on the one hand, and the continuation of a long-time concept of viewing family integrity as the pillar of the society on the other."
Suzanne Model is Professor and Chief Academic Advisor in the Sociology Department of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.A San Franciscan by birth, Sue holds a Ph.D. in Social Work and Sociology from the University of Michigan.Her favorite research question is how receiving countries affect the economic position of immigrants.She explores this issue by comparing ethnically similar movers across different destinations.For instance, she has examined the economic outcomes of Chinese immigrants in the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Australia.The class she enjoys teaching most is "Social Change in China", but she also teaches courses on immigration and social class inequality.Sue has had several stints abroad as a visiting scholar, most recently in Anhui Province.
David Moser David Moser holds a Masters and a Ph.D. in Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan, with a major in Chinese linguistics and philosophy. His Ph.D. dissertation "Abstract Thinking and Thought in Early Chinese and Classical Greek" won the Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award in 1996. He has been a visiting scholar at BeijingUniversity, and taught Linguistics and Translation Theory at the BeijingForeignStudiesUniversity. His interests include Cross-Cultural Psychology, Philosophy of Language, and aspects of Chinese media. Moser also worked as a program advisor, translator and host at China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing. Since 1992, he has appeared frequently on Chinese TV as a foreign expert, host, and occasional performer of a kind of Chinese stand-up comedy form called xiangsheng, or "crosstalk".
Brian Murray Currently based in Beijing, Brian Murray runs AIG's corporate research offices throughout Asia. Brian previously managed a strategic research unit for AIG in New York where he began as a research analyst in 1995. He developed the model for AIG Country Risk Reports and has authored a wide range of country, industry, and company reports. AIG is the world's leading international insurance and financial services organization, with operations in more than 130 countries and jurisdictions.He has held various teaching positions at Columbia, Rutgers, and Georgetown. His academic experience also includes diplomatic history research in the Soviet Foreign Ministry and Communist Party archives in Moscow; the Republic of China Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Defense archives in Taipei; and the Number Two Historical Archive in Nanjing. Earlier, Murray did survey research in Taipei for the predecessor of the Gallup Organization. During his career, he has served as a Defense Analyst and has written selected conference papers and publications on capital markets, foreign investment, and political and economic policies in Russia and China.He received a BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan, an MS from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and a PhD in Political Science and East Asian Studies from Columbia University. He is completely fluent in Chinese (Mandarin), Russian, and French.
Jason Patent Dr. Jason D. Patent hold a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarly and teaching interests revolve aroud language and culture, specifically in comparing "equivalent" categories cross-culturally. For instance, does human rights mean "the same thing" as renquan? If not, how do these categories differ, and how do these differences relate to the broader picture of how American and Chinese culture differ? Dr. Patent has taught at the collegiate level for over ten years, ranging from sociolinguistics to the Chinese language to cognitive linguistics. He is committed to teaching young Americans about China, having led American high school students on experiential education trips through China in addition to his more "academic" pursuits.
Michael Saffle Born in Salt Lake City, Michael Saffle attended the University of Utah and Harvard; he completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University in music and humanities' A professor in Virginia Tech's Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, he teaches courses on the humanities and the arts, including such topical courses as "African American Music," "Rock and Postmodern Culture," and "Music and Film." A three-time winner of Tech's Certificate of Teaching Excellence, he has also received fellowships and prizes from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Fulbright Foundation; in 2000-2001 he served as Bicentennial Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki. Together with a colleague in Hong Kong, he is currently studying contemporary Chinese rock music and concerts.
Sue Saffle Sue Saffle graduated from the University of Utah and took her Master's degree in English at Virginia Tech. In addition to courses in creative writing, news writing, and public speaking, she has taught a variety of literary subjects at Tech, including "Speculative Fiction," "Satire," and "Literature for Children." During the 1989-1990 academic year, she lectured in 'American English' at the Institute for Translators and Interpreters, Budapest, and in 1999 she was a visiting professor at the American University of Bulgaria. In 1997 she received Tech's Joyce Gentry Smoot Prize for teaching excellence in English, and in 2004 a committee of Tech undergraduates presented her with the Sporn Award, honoring her as the university's best teacher of introductory subjects. She is currently working on a book about the experiences of Finnish and Swedish 'war children.'
Shawn Shieh Shawn Shieh is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He has been teaching, traveling, working, and doing research in China since 1984 when he took a leave of absence from his graduate studies in creative writing to teach English at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. He became hooked on China after that experience, wanting to understand why things in China didn't work the same way as they did in the U.S. Thinking the answer had to lie in China's political system, he decided to enter the Ph.D. program in Political Science at Columbia University where he specialized in Chinese politics. He no longer thinks politics explains everything, but he is glad he got the Ph.D. because it enabled him to earn a decent living and thereby become a respectable member of society. At Marist, he teaches classes on Chinese and Asian politics and International Relations. He has also led two student groups to China in the last three years. He has written and published a number of articles and book chapters on central-provincial relations, government-business relations and corruption in China . He is currently working on a book on government and NGO responses to social welfare needs in China since the 1990s.
Janice Swab I have been a biology educator for more than 40 years and have taught courses in plant biology, symbiosis, environmental science, natural history, field studies, and various special topics such as Darwin's Beagle voyage. I have led field studies in the U.S. and other countries and have taught as a Fulbright Scholar in three countries. My varied interests have taken me to each of the seven continents, including three teaching experiences in China--in 1986, 1996, and 2001. I received my BS in science education from Appalachian State University and MS and Ph.D. in biology from the University of South Carolina. Engaging students in the material, I believe, is one of the most important roles for an instructor. I use my courses not only to teach students about the subject, but also to teach them how to be scholars.
Teng Jimeng Teng
Jimeng has taught American Studies at
Beijing Foreign Studies University since 1991, and has served as full-time
associate professor of the University's Center for American Studies
since 1998. He has traveled extensively in South China and North
America with grant support, including the United Board for Higher
Education in Asia and US-China Fulbright Educational Exchange Grants.
His book, Music-Made America: Popular MusicSince the 1960's, frames rock 'n'
roll culture of the 1960s America within the history of mass media with a
focus on the popular culture as a mediation between mainstream and
alternative cultures. He is active in the Beijing film world, and as
worked as translator and consultant to Chinese director Chen Kaige
(Farewell My Concubine). Teng often appears on CCTV-9's "Dialogue"
program as a cultural commentator.
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