Dr. Albert Chang, Public Health
Dr. Howard
Chang, Civil and
Environmental Engineering
Phone:Office:
E-421B
E-mail:
changh@mail.sdsu.edu
Web: http://chang.sdsu.edu
Dr. Howard Chang is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at San Diego State
University, and a registered civil engineer in California and Arizona.
He has taught 17 different courses at San Diego State University.
Dr. Chang’s
research is in the area of water resources engineering pertaining to
river hydraulics, sedimentation, and erosion.
Dr. Chang has
been active in floodplain mapping, hydrology and watershed modeling,
hydrological simulation, flood control channel design, floodwater
detention basin and sediment basin design, river channel erosion
analyses, and sedimentation studies.
He has also served as a consultant for consulting firms; local,
state and federal governmental agencies; and the United Nations.
Dr. Fang Chou, Engineering
Dr. Chee Chow, Accounting
Dr. Pao-chin Chu, History
(link
to Dr. Chu's Photos)
(B.A., National Taiwan University; M.A.
and Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania). Dr. Chu is Professor in the
Department of History at San Diego State University. He was the
Founding Director of the China Study Institute in 1988 and the Director
of Center for Asian Studies between 1981-1984. Dr. Chu also served
as the advisor for the Chinese Students and Scholar Association at SDSU,
consultant for local Chinese communities in San Diego, and the
Chairperson of China Opera Club in San Diego. His research interests
focus on historical Sino-American relationships and the Diplomacy of
Warload China. Recently, he published his memoir "From
Cave Refugee in North China to American Professor" in January 2001 (ISBN
7-201-03562-2).
Dr. Kevin G. Cai. Dr. Cai is
Assistant Professor
in the Department of Asia Pacific Studies at SDSU. His research
interests include regional integration and institution-building in the
Asia Pacific, China's integration with the regional and global economy,
and various political, security and economic issues in the Asia Pacific
region. Dr. Cai has published in a variety of professional journals and
elsewhere.
For more information about Dr. Cai, please visit his personal web at
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~kevincai.
Dr. KATHRYN EDGERTON-TARPLEY (Indiana University, 2002)
teaches Chinese History, Asian History, and World History for Teachers.
Her research interests lie in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese history,
cultural, social, and gender history, and comparative responses to
trauma and disaster. She spent much of 1999-2001 conducting research in
China, and returned to Beijing and Shanxi in the summer of 2004 to
complete additional archival research. Her current research, based on
her dissertation, "The Semiotics of Starvation in Late-Qing China:
Cultural Responses to the 'Incredible Famine' of 1876 to 1879," explores
local and trans-national reactions to famines in nineteenth-century
China and Ireland. A recent article, "Family and Gender in Famine:
Cultural Responses to Disaster in North China, 1876-1879" is forthcoming
in the Journal of Women's History.
Dr. Lei Guang, Department of Political Science. Professor Lei Guang
received his Ph.D in political science from the University of Minnesota
in 1999. Since then he has been teaching in the department of political
science at San Diego State. His research focuses on various aspects of
the Chinese politics, including issues of migration, rural-urban
relations, labor, the Chinese diaspora, nationalism and democracy. He
has published or has articles forthcoming in journals such as
International Migration Review, Modern China, the China
Quarterly, positions, Pacific Review, Journal of
Contemporary China, etc., as well as articles in edited volumes on
migrant labor. His teaching repertoire includes courses on the East
Asian politics, international relations of the Pacific Rim, the politics
of developing countries, globalization and the international political
economy.
Dr.
Ming Ji is Assistant Professor in the Division of Epidemiology
and Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State
University. He got his MS in control theory from East China Normal
University, MS in mathematics from Kansas State University and PhD in
statistics from University of California, Davis. He joined GSPH, SDSU
in 2001. His research interests include biostatistics and health
behavior. He is working on developing an international health program
between SDSU and universities in mainland China."
Dr. Hiroko Johnson, received her Ph.D. in Art History from
University of Southern California in 1994. Her area of emphasis is in the
eighteenth century painting. She focused how the Dutch influenced
Japanese art when Japan was practicing isolationism. The book on ‘The
Dutch Influence on Japanese Art: the Akita ranga art School and Foreign
Books” will be coming out in November 2004. Her current research is on
the Westernization of Japan during the nineteenth century. Dr.
Johnson is currently teaching Asian Art history, covering China, India,
Korea and Japan, Chinese Art history and Japanese Art history. She
also has seminars on Images of Women and Ukiyo-e art.
Ron
Moffatt, is the Director of International Student Center at San
Diego State University. He has a personal web page on the
International Student Center web site for more information:
http://www.sdsu.edu/isc/moffatt.htm .
Dr. William N. Rogers II (B.A., Stanford University; M.A.
and Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Professor in the
Department of English and Comparative Literature. He has on two
occasions served as Chair of the Department of Asian Studies and is a
founding member of the China Institute. Courses he has taught, in
his own department and in the Department of Asian Studies, include
Modern Asian Literature, Modern Chinese and Japanese Literature, The
Chinese Short Story, Classical Chinese Literature, and Women in Modern
Chinese and Japanese Literature. His current research interests in
Asian literature concern the literature of the May 4th
Movement and short stories by women writers of China and Japan. He
has lived in both Japan and Taiwan. E-mail: rogers@mail.sdsu.edu.
Office phone: (619) 594-6232.
Julie
C. Su
(Master of Librarianship from UC Berkeley; Specialist degree
in LIS from Indiana University)
is
Digital
Resources / Serials Librarian /Asian
Studies Librarian
and the Head of the Serials Unit at San Diego State University Library.
She is an
active member in the American
Library Association (ALA) serving on the Association for Library
Collection and Technical Services ( ALCTS)’s Committee to Study Serials
Standards (CSSS), Continuing Resource Cataloging Committee, Cataloging
Policy and Planning Committee, Cooperative Online Serials (CONSER)
Publication Pattern Initiative and served on the Workflow Task Force.
Ms. Su is the President of Southern California Technical Processing
Group and Active member of Association for Asian Studies, Chinese
American Librarians Association. Her email address is <jsu@mial.sdsu.edu>.
Dr. William Tong,
Department of Chemistry
Phone: (619) 594-2442, Fax: (619) 594-2442 or -2725 or -4634
E-mail: william.tong@sdsu.edu
OR wtong@home.com
Web: http://rohan.sdsu.edu/~tong
Dr. William Tong is Professor in the Department of Chemistry.
His research focuses on the application of novel nonlinear multiphoton
spectroscopic methods in the development and understanding of new
methods in laser analytical spectroscopy. Emphasis is placed on the
understanding of fundamental principles and experimental observations of
new spectroscopic phenomena. Integration of innovative nonlinear laser
techniques and computer interfacing of high-precision instrumentation
provides many advantages with new experimental possibilities over
conventional laser spectroscopic methods in analytical problem solving.
Dr. Ming-Hsiang Tsou,
Department of Geography
Phone: (619) 594-0205
Fax: (619) 594-4938
E-mail: mtsou@mail.sdsu.edu
Web:
http://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Pages/tsou/index.html
Dr. Tsou is Associate Professor in the Department of
Geography. His research interests focus on Internet-based Geographic
Information Systems (GIS), Cartography, distributed computing, intelligent
agents, and metadata modeling. He has several ongoing research projects
supported by National Science Foundation, NASA, and The City of San Diego.
Recently, he created a Web-based Mapping Tool for San Diego Wildfire 2003 at http://map.sdsu.edu .
Dr. Sandra A. Wawrytko, M.A., Ph.D. (Philosophy, Washington
University at St. Louis; Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar Board) is on the
faculties of Philosophy and Asian Studies at San Diego State
University. She has authored several books, including a CRYSTAL:
Spectrums of Chinese Culture Through Poetry (Peter Lang, 1995), The
Buddhist Religion (Wadsworth, 1996), and Chinese Philosophy in Cultural
Context (Peter Lang, forthcoming), and has edited more than ten
volumes. Currently she is Editor of the Asian Thought and Culture
series published by Peter Lang. She is a member of the Executive
Committee of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy and
President of the Charles Wei-hsun Fu Foundation, a non-profit
educational foundation dedicated to promoting scholarship on Asia.
Recent publications include: Language and Logic in the Lotus Sutra: A
Hermeneutical Exploration of Philosophical Underpinnings, Chung-Hwa
Buddhist Journal; prudery and Prurience: Historical Roots of the
Confucian Conundrum Concerning Women, Sexuality, and Power,
Confucius and the Second Sex (Open Court); and Kong Zi as
Feminist: Confucian Self-cultivation in a Contemporary Context, Journal
of Chinese Philosophy.
Dr. Allen Wittenborn, Asian Studies. (B.A. San Francisco State Univ., M.A. University of
Oregon, Ph.D. University of Arizona). Dr. Wittenborn is a
faculty member of the Department of Asian Studies and History. Dr. Wittenborn's interests include
research on Tang and Song intellectual history and foreign relations, in
particular with Turkic peoples in Central Asia. He is also active in studying modern China and its relations with Southeast Asia, especially
the role of overseas Chinese. In this regard, Dr. Wittenborn serves as an expert witness in testifying at political asylum cases with the INS.
In addition, he is currently conducting research on Tang-Arab relations,
on the rise of the Nationalist Chinese army in Burma, and on the position
of Chinese in Malaysian and Indonesian society.
Dr. Cathy Woo, Linguistics
Dr.
Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu,
the Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages
Office: BAM 329
E-mail: rwu@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: (619)594-2735
Ruey-Jiuan Regina Wu (B.A.,
National Taiwan Normal University; M.A., University of Washington;
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages.
Prior to joining SDSU, Professor Wu taught English in Taiwan and
Mandarin Chinese at UCLA and the University of Washington and was
also heavily involved in curriculum development
and teacher training. Professor Wu's
research interests include conversation analysis (CA), pragmatics,
functional linguistics, interpersonal communication in Chinese
communities, language assessment,
and TESL
(teaching English as a second language)/TCSL (teaching Chinese as a
second language) methodologies.
In the past few
years, she has also been involved in a couple of projects related to
K-12 Chinese Language education and teacher-training in the San
Diego area.
Dr. Wu’s recent book, Stance in Talk: A
conversation analysis of Mandarin final particles (2004, John
Benjamins), explores how participants in Mandarin conversation
display stance in the unfolding development of action and
interaction through the use of Mandarin final particles, and is one
of the pioneering CA studies of Mandarin Chinese. Her work on
pragmatics and interpersonal communication in Mandarin conversation
has also appeared in the Journal of Pragmatics, Discourse
Processes, Studies in Language, and Issues in Applied
Linguistics. (Click
here to link to the book page:
Stance in Talk: A conversation analysis of Mandarin final
particles.) (http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P_bns_117)
Dr. Russell Young, Policy Studies in Language and Cross-Cultural Education.
Dr. Russell Young is a Professor in the Department of Policy Studies in
Language and Cross-cultural Education and Department of Asian Studies.
He has taught courses in multicultural education, educational research,
and language policy. His research interests include ethnic
identity, mutlicultural strategies in teaching, and sociology of
language among Asians. His fieldwork for his thesis was at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong and in Taiwan for his dissertation.
He has lived in Asia, mostly in Taiwan, for six years. He has taught
education and English courses at the National Taiwan Normal University,
National Chengchi University, and National Kaohsiung Normal University.
He is also an award winning Children's story writer, having published in
Chinese and English.
Dr. Elena Yu, Graduate School of
Public Health. E-mail:
eyu@mail.sdsu.edu. Phone: (619) 594-2711. Dr. Elena Yu is
Professor of Epidemiology with academic degrees in economics, sociology,
and epidemiology. She has conducted research on Alzheimer’s disease and
dementia in China, aging and mental health of Asian Americans, and
cancer control on Chinese and Korean Americans. Her areas of current
research interest are on Health Policy, Social Epidemiology, the
Epidemiology of Minority Health, and Asian American and Pacific
Islanders’ Health Disparities.
Dr. Zheng-sheng Zhang, Linguistics
Office: BA 418A, Phone: (619) 594-1912
Email: zzhang@mail.sdsu.edu
Web:
http//www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/chinese/zhang/zhang.html
Dr. Li-Rong Lilly Cheng, Department of Communicative Disorders.
Dr.
Mei Zhong, (Ph.D. 1996, Kent State University)
