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Affiliated Faculty | Graduate Students

Sabine Frühstück
East Asia Center, Director
Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies

Affiliated Faculty

Communication | Dramatic Arts | East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies | Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology | Economics | English | Gevirtz Graduate School of Education | Global Studies | History | History of Art and Architecture | Independent Scholars and Other Affiliates | Library | Linguistics | Music | Political Science | Religious Studies | Sociology

Communication
Howard GILES
 
Dramatic Arts
Suk-young Kim

East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
Robert L. BACKUS
Ronald EGAN
Sabine FRÜHSTÜCK
Koji FURUKAWA
Allan G. GRAPARD
Daoxiong GUAN
Atsuko HAYASHI
Chuan-chen HSU
Haruko G. IWASAKI
Sunny JUNG
Sun-Ae LEE
John W. NATHAN
Hyung Il PAI
Yupei PENG
Katherine SALTZMAN-LI
Chikako SHINAGAWA
Hiroko SUGARAWA
Kuo-ch'ing TU
Mayfair Mei-hui YANG
Hsiao-jung YU

Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
Peter Michael COLLINS
Peter CHAILLÉ

Economics
Chenzong QIN

English
Shirley Geok-lin LIM
Yunte HUANG

Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Mary E. BRENNER
Hsiu-zu HO
Yukari OKAMOTO
Jules M. ZIMMER

Global Studies
Richard APPELBAUM

History
Tsuyoshi HASEGAWA
Luke S. ROBERTS

History of Art and Architecture
Peter Charles STURMAN
Miriam WATTLES

Independent Scholars and Other Affiliates
Angela BOYD
Gary A. COLMENAR
Susan Chan EGAN
Orna NAFTALI | Orna Naftali received her PhD in Anthropology in September 2007. The title of her dissertation is gReforming the Child: Childhood, Citizenship, and Subjectivity in Contemporary China.h She is currently a Lady Davis post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and is working on a book on childhood and politics in modern China.

Library, East Asian Collections
Cathy CHIU
Seiko Y. TU

Linguistics
Patricia M. CLANCY
Charles N. LI
Sandra A. THOMPSON

Music
Dolores HSU

Political Science
M. Kent JENNINGS
Pei-te LIEN
Alan P. L. LIU

Religious Studies
JosE Ignacio CABEZÓN
William F. POWELL
Vesna WALLACE
Mayfair Mei-hui YANG

Sociology
Mark JUERGENSMEYER
Raymond WONG

Graduate Students

Anthropology | Communication | Comparative Literature | East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies | Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology | History | History of Art and Architecture | Linguistics | Political Science | Religious Studies

Anthropology
Jacqueline Eng
jteng@umail.ucsb.edu | Research: Bioarchaeology of Bronze and Iron Age skeletal populations in China. She will be visiting Sichuan Union University in Chengdu and Ji Lin Univ.

Choon-hwan Park
hanam@umail.ucsb.edu | Research: Rural-urban relations in china.

Susan McArver
susan_mcarver@umail.ucsb.edu | Advisor: Mary Hancock | Research: Japanese media, identity, humor // "Laughter and Gaikokujin on Japanese TV: Constructing Foreign Identities"

Communication
Robert McCann
chiwit@hotmail.com | Advisor: Howard Giles

Comparative Literature
Lily Wong
lilywongcc@yahoo.com.tw | Research interests : Postcolonial theory and literature,globalization and media theories, language and translation theories; paying close attention to notions of affect, the body, performativity, and historical writing. She is now working on a project that focuses on cross-cultural translations of local narratives through literary, filmic, and music representations of prostitution culture in the regions of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taipei.
East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
Ethan Stockton
stockton_ethan@hotmail.com | Research interests : Modern Japanese History, social impacts of Japanese popular culture, Japanese secondary education system.
History
Teresa Algoso
talgoso@umail.ucsb.edu | Advisor: Sabine Frustuck | Research: Policing Bodies: Gender and Hermaphroditism in Modern Japan.

Christopher Dewell
cdewell@umail.ucsb.edu | Advisor: Joshua Fogel | Research: Sino-Japanese relations

Kirsten Ziomek
kirszio@lycos.com | Interested in the study of modern Japan, particularly WWII memory and the history of women


History of Art and Architecture
Gabrielle Chang
gabrielle.chang@gmail.com | Advisor: Prof. Miriam Wattles | Thesis project: Western preception on Japanese Rinpa School | Research interests: Japanese and Chinese art history

Han-yun Chang
| Dissertation topic: "He Tianjian (1891-1977) and Defence of Guohua" | Other research interests: early 20th-C Chinese Art History; Modern Chinese art publications/writings and art societies; Chinese artists and art students in Japan at the turn of the 20th Century | Summer 2006: Curatorial intern and researcher for Asian Arts at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Linguistics
B. Ellen Bartee
ellenb@umail.ucsb.edu | Research: A general description of Dongwang Tibetan, which belongs in the Southern Khams Tibetan group: grammar and literacy.

Monica Turk Burden
mjt0@umail.ucsb.edu | Research: Mandarin clause structure and conversation

Akiyo Maruyama
am4@umail.ucsb.edu | Advisor: Patricia Clancy | Research: Sociocultural linguistics; Japanese discourse syntax.

Joseph Park
umac.mo | Research: Influence of English on Korean ideologies.

Reijirou Shibasaki
reijirou@umail.ucsb.edu | Research: Japanese historical syntax and pragmatics.

Nobutaka Takara
nobutakatakara@umail.ucsb.edu | Advisor: Matthew Gordon | Research interests: Japanese Linguistics (especially Phonetics/Phonology), Phonological phenomena of the Okinawan Dialect

Political Science
Laura Dodge
Research: The deregulation and privatization processes in China's power industry.

Religious Studies
David Cooper
dcooper@umail.ucsb.edu | Research: Tibetan Buddhist monastic life and pilgrimage.
 
Ryan Adams
taylora@umail.ucsb.edu | Research: Falungong in China
 
Alex Catanese
alexcatanese@yahoo.com | Research: Tibetan Buddhism
 
Zoran Lazovic
zoranlazovic@umail.ucsb.edu | Research: Tibetan Buddhism
 
Alyson Prude
mprude13@hotmail.com | Research: Tibetan Buddhism and women.

Boston Russell
thehoyaboy@aol.com | Advisor: Jose Cabezon | Research: Tibetan Buddhism.

Tenzin Sherab
tsherab1964@yahoo.com | Advisor: Jose Cabezon | Research: Historical, religious exchanges between Tibet and China.