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Find information below on faculty members with an interest in Asia at UNCW. Listings are in alphabetical order.
Yixin Chen, Department of History Homepage: http://www.uncwil.edu/hst/homepage/faculty/Chen.htm, e-mail: cheny@uncw.edu.
Liping Gan, Department of Physics Homepage: http://fluffah.phy.uncwil.edu/phy/gan/, e-mail: ganl@uncw.edu.
Paula Kamenish, Department of English Homepage: http://www.uncw.edu/english/faculty2.htm , e-mail: kamenishp@uncw.edu. Paula Kamenish is an associate professor of English who holds the M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to her customary offerings in European, African, and Latin American literatures, she has also taught courses in Chinese and Japanese Literatures in translation at the 100, 200, and 300 levels. In 2000 she was awarded one of three UNCW Distinguished Teaching Professorships, and she also received the UNCW Board of Trustees Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Kamenish travels extensively and often leads groups of students abroad, most recently to Paris, Prague, and throughout Finland where she taught for one month. She speaks French, German, and is a student of Spanish. She is very active in the South Atlantic States Association for Asian and African Studies and served from 1997 to 2001 as the consortium's Executive Director. She is a former Thomas J. Watson fellow and NEH grant recipient. Her recent scholarly research is in modernist European art and literature by women, as well as dictatorial censorship of the arts in South America.
Homepage: http://www.uncw.edu/fll/faculty-kano.html, e-mail: kanoy@uncw.edu. Yoko Kano currently teaches all levels of Japanese language and a culture course at UNCW. Her classes use technology extensively to enhance teaching and student learning such as videoconferencing with Japan and E-learning course materials. She serves as the academic director and coordinator of Outreach Program of North Carolina Teaching Asia Network (NCTAN), the director of Japan Center-Coastal Chapter, the director of Foreign Language Resource Center at UNCW. She was also a board member of the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT), a national task force member of American Council on Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Japanese language standard for preschool to college, and the former president of Carolina Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ).
William McCarthy, Department of History Homepage: http://people.uncw.edu/mccarthyw/index.htm, e-mail: mccarthyw@uncw.edu.
Paige Tan, Department of Political Science Homepage: http://people.uncw.edu/tanp/, e-mail: tanp@uncw.edu. Paige Tan came to the Department of Political Science from the University of Virginia, where she completed her Ph.D. in Foreign Affairs, specializing in Comparative Politics and Southeast Asia. Her dissertation was titled Streams of Least Resistance: the Institutionalization of Political Parties and Democracy in Indonesia. Dr. Tan has contributed articles on Indonesian politics to Contemporary Southeast Asia, the Jakarta Post, the Van Zorge Report on Indonesia, and the Daily Yomiuri (Japan). In addition, a recent study of East Timor’s political parties will be published as a chapter in a forthcoming book entitled Double Transition in East Timor: The Consolidation of Sovereignty and Democracy (Paulo Gorjao, ed.). Dr. Tan has been an invited speaker on Indonesian and Asian politics at conferences and events sponsored by several government agencies, including the U.S. State Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Tan served as a consultant to the API Foundation, Jakarta, working on issues related to the construction of democratic institutions in Indonesia. From 1998-1999, she worked for the Harvard Institute for International Development as a Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore. Dr. Tan has a Master’s Degree in International Public Administration (International Development) from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. She is a former Fulbright scholar who speaks Indonesian, French, Chinese, and German. At UNCW, she teaches several Asia-related courses, including PLS 339 Asian Politics and PLS 317 Asian Political Thought.
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To report problems, contact Asian Studies Minor Coordinator, Yoko Kano at kanoy@uncw.edu. |
Yoko Kano, Department of
Foreign Languages and Literatures