Faculty Expertise

Alphabetical faculty listing
Sigur Center staff

Sigur faculty expertise categories:

• China
• Japan
• Korea
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Special Topics

China

• Hsuyin Chang – Teaching Chinese as a second language.
• Jonathan Chaves – Chinese and Japanese culture and literature.
• Alice Cheang – Chinese literature.
• Donald C. Clarke – Chinese legal institutions and the legal issues presented by China's economic reforms.
• Bruce Dickson – Government and politics of China, Taiwan, and East Asia.
• Molly Spitzer Frost – Chinese culture through films and literature.
• Peter Hotez – Vaccine development for parasitic and tropical diseases, the role of vaccines in international diplomacy, China.
• James Kilpatrick – Economies of China and Japan, APEC.
• Jin Liu - Chinese language.
• Lynda Maddox – China, Advertising, Consumer behavior, Communications, Focus group research, Marketing management, Experiential learning.
• Edward McCord – Modern Chinese history; socio-political history; civil-military relations.
• David Shambaugh – Chinese politics and foreign policy; U.S.-China relations; China's military and security; international relations of the Asia-Pacific region.
• Robert J. Shepherd – Tourism, cultural heritage issues, side effects of market changes in China.
• Robert Sutter – Politics and foreign relations of Taiwan; international politics of East Asia; U.S. policy towards Asia.
• Bing-Sheng Teng – China, Strategic management, Strategic alliances, Cooperative and competitive strategies, Risk issues in management, Strategic decision making, International management.
• Richard Thornton – U.S. foreign policy; Sino-Russian relations.
• Elenah Uretsky – China, gender, sexuality, masculinity, HIV/AIDS, chronic disease, governance of health
• Miaochun Wei – Language pedagogy, second language acquisition, pragmatics.
• Richard Windsor – Evaluation of health promotion-disease prevention programs, China.
• Mei Wu - Chinese language.
• Jiawen Yang – Business environment in China.
• Guofang Yi – Chinese language.
• Phyllis Ni Zhang – Chinese language and culture, pedagogy, and technology.

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Japan

• Wakana K. Cavanaugh – Japanese language.
• Jonathan Chaves – Chinese and Japanese culture and literature.
• Shoko Hamano – Japanese language and linguistics, semantics, and phonology.
• I. Leopold Hanami – Modern and classical Japanese, classical Japanese poetry and poetics.
• D. Christopher Kayes – How Japanese and U.S. managers learn across cultures.
• James Kilpatrick – Economies of China and Japan, APEC.
• Young C. Kim – Japanese and Korean domestic politics and foreign relations; Russian relations with East Asia; and East Asian foreign relations.
• Mike Mochizuki – Japanese foreign policy and domestic politics, U.S.-Japan relations, international relations in East Asia.
• Henry Nau – U.S. foreign economic policy; international political economy; science, technology, and international affairs.
• Mitsuyo Sato – Japanese language.
• Rika Seya – Japanese language.
• Takae Tsujioka – Japanese language.
• Daqing Yang – Modern Japanese history; history of Japan's foreign relations; history of telecommunications in East Asia.

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Korea

• Gregg Brazinsky – American relations with Japan and Korea; US-Korean relations 1950-1960.
• John Finch – Korean culture.
• R. Richard Grinker – Contemporary Korea; sociocultural anthropology; nationalism & ethnicity.
• Jai Kwan Jung – Korean politics, conflict resolution and reconciliation, and comparative political institutions
• Young C. Kim – Japanese and Korean domestic politics and foreign relations; Russian relations with East Asia; and East Asian foreign relations.
• Young-Key Kim-Renaud – Korean language, linguistics, and humanities.
• Young Hoon Kwak – Korea, Project Management and Control, Risk Management, Technology Management, Construction Management.
• Miok Pak – Korean language syntax, semantics, morphology, pedagogy and second language acquisition
• Yoon-Shik Park - Korea, International banking, International financial markets, Multi-lateral development banks, Financial institutions.

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South Asia

• Martin Adelman – Patent law, India
• Prabir Bagchi – Logistics, supply chain management, production, and operations management, South Asia
• Shamnad Basheer – Patents and developing countries and the interface between patents and antitrust, India
• Elizabeth Chacko – Regional Development, South Asia.
• Kavita Daiya – Cultural representations in various media, in relation to historical, theoretical and anthropological accounts of colonial and postcolonial experience, in India, South Asia, and around the world
• Herbert Davis – Strategic management in developing country environments; Regional areas of expertise include South and Southeast Asia.
• Shahe Emran – Development economics, public economics, international economics, applied econometrics, Bangladesh
• Muhiuddin Haider – Health communications, infrastructure development, training, capacity building, and healthcare reform; South and East Asia.
• Balaji Hebbar – Hindu and Indian philosophy, linguistics, world religions and religious history, Sanskrit as well as many Indologically oriented subjects and languages
• Alfred Hiltebeitel – The great epics of India; regional folk epics; South Asian history and the history of religions.
• Karl Inderfurth – U.S.-South Asian Relations; National Security Council; United Nations and Peacekeeping; disarmament, security affairs.
• Shivraj Kanungo - Outsourcing and software development, India.
• Dane Kennedy – British Empire, colonialism in Africa and India, Modern Britain.
• Marilyn Merritt – Language and media in public places and spaces; creativity, interdisciplinarity, and social change; situated discourse analysis; ritual and civility; education and visual literacies; cross-cultural understanding and scientific collaboration, India.
• Barbara Miller – Medical anthropology, South Asia.
• Deepa Ollapally – South Asia; South Asia security; U.S. foreign policy; gender issues in international politics.
• Judith Plotz – British romanticism, children's literature, Indian literature in English.
• Pradeep Rau – India, Marketing research, Marketing strategy, International marketing.
• Inder Sud – Economic development in developing countries, South Asia.
• Emmanuel Teitelbaum – South Asian politics and development.

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Southeast Asia

• Alasdair Bowie – Comparative politics of Southeast Asia; politics of development.
• Herbert Davis – Strategic management in developing country environments; Regional areas of expertise include South and Southeast Asia.
• Joel Kuipers – Cultures of Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian development.
• Shawn McHale – Southeast Asian history, colonialism.
• Janet Steele – History of Journalism; Ideology and Professional Practices of Journalism; The Press in Modern Indonesia; Narrative Journalism; Media in the Developing World.

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Special Topics

• Maggie Xiaoyang Chen – International trade, regionalism, technical barriers to trade, and intellectual property rights.
• Andrew Jared Critchfield – The impact of organizational culture and personal identity — especially those marginalized due to hegemonic structures — upon organizational success and effectiveness; the effects of policy and "rules" on custom and culture.
• William Cummings – International Education and Development, Models of Socioeconomic Development, Asia.
• Richard F. Southby – Comparative health systems and public health policy.
• Ronald Spector – 20th Century war and diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific.
• John Wang – East Asian calligraphy.
• Liang (Larry) Yu – Hotel management; Tourism in Asia.

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