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Van C. Gessel |
is Professor of Japanese and Dean of the College of Humanities
at Brigham Young University, where he has also been chair of the Department
of Asian and Near Eastern Languages. He Received his undergraduate degree
in political science at the University of Utah, and his masters and Ph.D.
degrees in Japanese at Columbia University.
He has been a faculty member at Columbia, Notre Dame, and UC Berkeley, and he joined the faculty at BYU in 1990. Van received the Student Award for Excellence in Teaching for his department five times, was named the P.A. Christensen Lecturer in Humanities in 1995, and is the author of The Sting of Life: Three Contemporary Japanese Novelists (Columbia University Press, 1989) and Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata (Kodansha International, 1993), editor of The Showa Anthology and of two volumes on modern Japanese novelists for the Dictionary of Literary Biography series. He has published six translations of literary works by the Japanese Christian novelist Endo Shusaku. Currently he is working with Professor Thomas Rimer of the University of Pittsburgh to edit an anthology of modern Japanese literature for Columbia University Press. Back to list
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| received her doctoral degree from the Department of South
and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. She is
currently Professor in the Department of History (since 1986), University
of California, Davis.
A specialist in the history of South Asian Muslims, she is the author of Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982 and 2nd edition, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002); translator and commentator on Perfecting Women: Maulana Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi's Bihishti Zewar (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990); and editor and contributor to Moral Conduct and Authority: The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984); and Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe (University of California Press, 1996). Her work has been supported by numerous awards and fellowships, among them National Endowment for the Humanities, John Simon Guggenheim, and Fulbright fellowships. Back to list
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| has taught Chinese history and American history at City College
for many years. She holds a Masters in International Affairs and a J.D.
degree. She chaired the History of the Law Committee for the State Bar of
California, is the co-editor of California Legal History Manuscripts in
the Huntington Library, and co-author of "The Chinese Contribution
to the Development of American Law" in Entry Denied: Exclusion and
the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943.
She will be a contributor to an anthology of essays on the major United States Supreme Court decisions, which will be published by Peking University Press within the next year. She has been a participant for five years in the SCANS program at City College. Back to list
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Vicente L. Rafael |
is Professor at the Department of Communication, University of California
at San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian History at Cornell
University and his B.A. at the ATeneo de Manila University in Manila,
Philippines.
Professor Rafael is the author of Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule. And more recently, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History, both published by Duke University Press. He has also edited two collections of essays, "Discrepant Histories: Translocal Essays in Filipino Cultures" (Temple University Press) and "Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines and Colonial Vietnam" (Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications). Currently, he is working on a book project tentatively titled "Translation and Revenge: Language and the Origins of Nationalism in the Philippines, 1840s-1930s". Back to list
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received her Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology at Harvard in June
2000 and is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development
at Cornell. Her research interests are at the intersection of cognitive
and social development, focusing on the development of autobiographical
memory.
Her current studies examine the impact of self-concept, gender-role, emotion situation knowledge, and family narrative practices on autobiographical remembering, addressing both cross-cultural differences and within-cultural variations. Back to list
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Kate Zhou |
is from Wuhan, the greatest city in Central China. She received her B. A. of English in Wuhan University, M.S. of Sociology in Texas A&M University and Ph. D. of Politics, at Princeton University. She is now an Associate Professor of Comparative Politics and Political Economy of East Asia (China and Japan) in the Department of Political Science at University of Hawaii. Her main research interests include the dynamics of transition from central planning to markets, Chinese economic development, Chinese business, globalization in East Asia, comparative studies of businesses and Asian entrepreneurship. She has published articles on political economy and women's studies, along with a book titled How the Farmers Changed China: Power of the People. Back to list |