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Colorado College
Coleman, Tracy
Department of Religion

Colorado College
14 East Cache la Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Tel: 719-389-6195
Fax: 719-389-6179
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Assistant Professor of Religion
Degrees: Ph.D., Brown University; MTS, Harvard Divinity School; MA, Middlebury College
Distinctions: 2003-05 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor
Areas of specialization: Hinduism and South Asian Religions; Women and Gender in Religion; Feminist Religious Thought; Sanskrit Literature
Selected publications: "Suffering Desire for Krishna:  Gender and Salvation in the Bhagavata Purana," Journal of Vaishnava Studies 10/2: 39-50 (Spring 2002) 

Webpage: http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/Dept/RE/people/coleman/coleman.html
Fennell, Vera Leigh
Department of Political Science, Colorado College,
14 Cache La Poudre St.,

Colorado Springs, CO 80903.
Tel: 719-389-6289
Fax: 719-389-6586.
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Assistant Professor, Political Science, Asian Studies, Women's Studies, and American Cultural Studies
Degrees: Ph.D. University of Chicago, MA University of Chicago, AB Princeton University
Research/teaching focus: Women's issues, entrepreneurship
Gardiner, David W.
Religion Department, Colorado College,
14 East Cache La Poudre St.,

Colorado Springs, CO 80903.
Tel: 719-389-6616
Fax: 719-389-6195
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Assistant Professor of Religion
Degrees: 1995, PhD Stanford
Distinctions: Sigma Xi
Research/teaching focus: Japanese Buddhism, especially Shingon, and the writings of Kukai; Teaching: Religions of China and Japan, Buddhism
Selected publications: see my dept. website below
Webpage: http://www2.coloradocollege.edu/Dept/RE/people/gardiner/gardiner.html
Levine, Vicki
Hulbert Center for Southwestern Studies, Colorado College
14 E. Cache la Poudre St.,

Colorado Springs, CO, 80903
Tel: (719) 389-6183

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Professor of Music and W. M. Keck Foundation Director of the Hulbert Center for Southwestern Studies
Degrees: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990, Musicology (Ethnomusicology); M.A., San Francisco State University (SFSU), 1980, Music History; B.Mus., SFSU, 1977, Music History (honors), B.A., SFSU, 1977, Anthropology (honors)
Distinctions: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor, Colorado College, 1991-93; Senior Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 1994-95; Ida Halpern Award, Society for Ethnomusicology, 1999; numerous research grants from Colorado College and other sources.
Research/teaching focus: American Indian Musics and Cultures; Latino Musics and Cultures of the Southwest. Ethnomusicology and world music; American Indian music; Latino music; Indonesian music; Southwest Studies
Selected publications:author, co-author, or editor of more than 50 publications, including three books, on topics in American Indian music, Latino music, and general issues in ethnomusicology.
McJimsey, Marianna Presler
Director of International Studies, Colorado College,
14 East Cache La Poudre St.,

Colorado Springs, CO 80903.
Tel: 719-389-7706
Fax: 719-389-6282.
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Director of International Studies; Lecturer in Education
Degrees: B.A., History, Oberlin College, M.A., History, University of Wisconsin/Madison
Distinctions: Madison, WI public school distinction in teaching award; ASIANetwork Executive Director Emeritus; grant awards for research in Japan.
Research/teaching focus: Japanese education; History of India; secondary history/social studies methods
Selected publications: Article in Teaching World History: A Resource Book, Heidi Roupp (editor), M.E. Sharp, 1997; articles in Association for Asian Studies journal, Education About Asia; Articles in The ASIANetwork Exchange, A Newsletter for Teaching about Asia; Editor The ASIANetwork Exchange; Editor, The Japan America Society of Southern Colorado Newsletter Dear Ted
Wang, Yunyu
Drama and Dance Department, Colorado College,
14 Cache La Poudre St.,

Colorado Springs, CO 80903.
Tel: 719-3896460.
Fax: 719-389-6145.
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Associate Professor, Dance
Degrees: Master Degree in Fine Arts/MFA
Distinctions: Professional dancers with Cloud Gate in Taiwan for ten years; certified Laban Movement Analysis; certified Laban Notation Teacher and Reconstructor. Chair for the 2003 International Dance Festival; Asia Coordinator for 1999 International Dance Festival in Philedelphia; Coordinator for exchange art program between Asia and USA.
Research/teaching focus: Modern Dance; Chinese Meditative Arts including calligraphy and Taichi; Movement Analysis; Kinesiology(Pilates based)
Selected publications: Comparision of teaching dance in east and west; Dancing Female in Asia; Han Dynasty Dancing; Young Choreographers in Taiwan
Colorado State University
Boyd, James W.
Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University
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Professor
Degrees: Ph.D. and M.A. Northwestern University; BA Lawrence University
Distinctions: University Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Research/Teaching Focus: Japanese Shrine Shinto; Indo-Persian Zoroastrianism.
Selected publications: Ritual Art and Knowledge.
Charlton, Sue Ellen M.
Department of Political Science, Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1782.

Tel: (970) 491-6806
Fax: (970) 491-2490
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Professor
Degrees: Ph.D., Graduate School of International Relations, University of Denver
Distinctions: American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Fellowship; Co-Director, Fulbright Group Study Project in India; Visiting Scholar, Tokyo Women's University; Visiting Professor, Kansai Gaidai University
Research/Teaching Focus: Comparative politics; gender and development.
Selected publications: Comparing Asian Politics: India, China, and Japan (Westview Press; revised edition forthcoming).
Sargent, Stuart
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1774

Tel: (970) 491-6671
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Associate Professor
Degrees: BA, Asian Studies, University of Oregon; MA and PhD, Chinese, Stanford University
Distinctions: Recipient of Mellon Fellowship for Chinese Studies, 1982-1983, Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1991-1995, recipient of several faculty research fellowship awards, recipient of Instructional Improvement Grant, 1993, Woodrow Wilson Designate,
Research/Teaching Focus: Chinese language, poetry, literature, history, Su Shi, and Song Dynasty literary arts.
Selected publications: For a current list of his publications e-mail him.
Varner, Mindy
Tel: (970) 461-5990
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Japan Program Associate
Prorgram for Teaching East Asia
University of Colorado
595 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Tel: (303) 735-5124

Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Degrees: BA, Colorado State University (1998). MA, East Asian Studies, Yale University (2000)
Research/Teaching Focus: Japanese language, women's studies, premodern Japanese literature, court diaries, nikki bungaku, history of tea ceremony, tea ceramics, traditional performing arts, Okura school kyogen
Webpage: www.geocities.com/mindyvarner
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Hill, Christopher V.
History Department, Colorado College
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway

Colorado Springs, CO 80918-3733
Tel: (719) 262-4081
Fax: (719) 262-4068
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Professor, History
Degrees: BA, University of Utah; MA and PhD, University of Virginia
Distinctions: Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, 1999-2000 Recipient, Aldo Leopold Award for Best Article in Environmental History, from the American Society for Environmental History.
Research/teaching focus: Modern India
Selected publications: River of Sorrow: Environment and Social Control in Riparian North India, 1770-1994 (Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies Monograph Series, 1997). "Ideology and Public Works: 'Managing' the Mahanadi River System in Colonial North India," in Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Vol. 6, No. 5, December 1995. "Water and Power: Riparian Legislation and Agrarian Control in Colonial Bengal," in Environmental History, Vol. 14, No. 4, Winter 1990.
Web Page:http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/FLL/ch_ja.html#links
University of Colorado at Denver
Everett, Jana
CB 144, PO Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364.
Tel: (303) 556-3513

Fax: (303) 556-4861.
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Professor, Political Science
Degrees: Ph.D. University of Michigan, Political Science
Research/teaching focus: Politics of South Asia, Gender studies--India, Gender and International Development
Selected publications: 2001, Challenge and Co-optation: Women's Movements, NGOs, and Advocacy Coalitions in Asia (Review Essay). Critical Asian Studies 33(3): 439-45.
2001, Using modern Asian literature on gender in Social Science courses: Reinforcing or dismantling stereotypes? Education About Asia 6(1): 42-45.
2001, 'All the women were Hindu and all the Muslims were men': State, identity politics and gender, 1917-1951. Economic and Political Weekly 36(23): 2071-80.
1998, Indian feminists debate the efficacy of policy reform: The Maharashtra ban on sex-determination tests. Social Politics 5:314-37.
1984, Bank Loans to the Poor in Bombay. Do Women Benefit?" Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 10, No. 2, pp. 272-90. (With M. Savara). Reprinted in Women and Poverty, B. C. Gelpi, et al., eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1986) pp. 83-102.
1979, Women and Social Change in India (New Delhi: Heritage) and (New York: St. Martin's Press).
Hartman, Rudi
Campus Box 172, P.O.Box 173364
Denver, Colorado 80217
Phone: 303-556-5296
FAX: 303-556-6197
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Geography
Research/teaching focus: Geography of China, sustainable tourism development
Janes, Craig R.
Campus Box 103, P.O. Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364
Tel: 303-556-8422
Fax: 303-556-8501
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Anthropology & Health and Behavioral Science
Degrees: Ph.D. University of California Berkeley and San Francisco(medical anthropology) 1984
Distinctions: Fulbright Scholar, Taiwan, 1997-1998; Fulbright New Century Scholar, 2001-2002; President, Society for Medical Anthropology
Research/teaching focus: Asian medicine, health reform in China and Central Asia; post-socialist development; political ecology of nomadism
Selected publications: Janes, Craig R. "Buddhism, Science, and Market: The Globalization of Tibetan Medicine." Anthropology and Medicine, in press.
Janes, Craig R. "Producing Poor Medicine for Poor People: Market Ideology and the Fragmentation of Health Care in Post-Socialist Mongolia. Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies, in press.
Lu, Tsong-hsueh, Craig R. Janes, Tai-Pin Shih, Meng-Chih Lee, Ming-Chih Chou, and Chen-Kun Lin. "High-Frequency Death Certifiers in Taiwan: A Sociocultural Product." Social Science and Medicine (2002) 55:1663-1670.
Janes, Craig R., The Health Transition and the Crisis of Traditional Medicine: The Case of Tibet. Social Science and Medicine (1999) 48:1803-1820.
Janes, Craig R., Imagined Lives, Suffering and the Work of Culture: The Embodied Discourses of Conflict in Modern Tibet. Medical Anthropology Quarterly (1999) 13:391-412.
Janes, Craig R., The Transformations of Tibetan Medicine. Medical Anthropology Quarterly (1995) 9: 6-39.
Website:http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~cjanes/
Thomas, Steven C
King Center, Room 520,

Campus Box 190.
PO Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364
Tel: (303) 556-5259
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Associate Professor, Political Science
Degrees
: Ph.D., Political Science; MA., East Asian Studies.
Distinctions: CU President's Service Award.
Research/Teaching Focus: Chinese financial reforms and human rights.
Selected publications: Various publications on Chinese financial reforms.
University of Denver
Adrian, Bonnie
Core Curriculum

2000 Asbury St.
Denver, CO 80210
Tel: 303.871.2944, 303.871.4436

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Core Lecturer, Social Sciences
Degrees: Ph. D. Sociocultural Anthropology, Yale University 1999
Research/Teaching Focus: gender in Taiwan, Taiwan bridal industry, interdisciplinary general education courses
Selected Publications: "The Camera's Positioning in Taipei's Bridal Industry," Ethos 32(2): 140-63, 2004; Framing the Bride:  Globalizing Beauty and Romance in Taiwan's Bridal Industry.  University of California Press, 2003. (2005 Hsu Book Prize); "The Politics of Appearance in East Asia," Anthropology News 44(9): 44, 2003.

Web Page:http://www.du.edu/~badrian

Farer, Tom
2201 South Gaylord Street Denver, CO 80208
Tel: (303) 871-2539

Fax: (303) 871-2456
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Dean Graduate School of International Relations
Degrees: Harvard Law School, Magna cum Laude; Princeton University
Selected Publications: Financing African Development. Tom J. Farer, ed. (MIT, 1965). Warclouds on the Horn of Africa. (Carnegie Endowment, 1976; 2nd revised edition 1979). Toward a Humanitarian Foreign Policy: A Primer for Policy, Tom J. Farer, ed. (NYU, 1980). The Grand Strategy of the United States in Latin America, (Transaction Books, 1988). U.S. Ends and Means in Central America. (Plenum, 1988) (with Ernest van den Haag). Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Western Hemisphere. Tom J. Farer, ed. (John Hopkins University Press, 1996). Transnational Crime in the Americas. Tom J. Farer, ed. (Routledge, 1999).
Web Page:Graduate School of International Relations
Ishimatsu, Ginette
Sturm Hall 166

2000 Asbury Ave.
Denver, CO 80208
Tel: 303-871-2755

Fax: 303-871-2750
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Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Degrees: PhD South Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, MA Sanskrit, UC Berkeley, BA Japanese, UC Berkeley
Research/Teaching Focus: Taiwan, gender, family, globalization
Selected Publications: Framing the Bride: Globalizing Romance and Beauty in Taiwan's Bridaly Industry. University of California Press, 2003.
Web Page:http://www.du.edu/~gishimat/
Khan, Haider
GSIS University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208
Tel: 303-871-4461/2324

Fax: 303-871-2456
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Visiting Professor, CIRJE, Graduate School of Economics University of Tokyo
Degrees: PhD Cornell University
Distinctions: B.A. Summa cum laude, Cornell distinguished teaching award; NSF grants
Research/Teaching Focus: economics and trade, technology and finance, and political economy of asia
Selected Publications: Innovation and Growth in East Asia:The Future of Miracles, forthcoming, Macmillan and St. Martin's Press
Global Markets and Financial Crisis: Asia’s Mangled Miracle, forthcoming, Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press
Technology Systems and Development, Macmillan, 1997 with Jeffrery James.
Technology, Development and Democracy: The Limits of National Innovation Systems in the Age of Postmodernism Edward Elgar, 1998.
Transitional Economies and Regional Economic Development Strategies, UNCRD, Nagoya, Japan, 1996 (edited, with A. Kumssa).
Technology, Energy and Development: The South Korean Transition, (Edward Elgar, 1997)
African Debt and Sustainable Development , Phelps-Stokes Fund Monograph, New York, 1997.
Macroeconomic Effects and Diffusion of Alternative Technologies Within a Social Accounting Matrix Framework: the Case of Indonesia, Gower Publication, Co., Aldershot, U.K., 1988 (with Erik Thorbecke)
The Political Economy of Sanctions Against Apartheid, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, CO, 1989
Web Pages: Haider's Anti-war Poetry
http://www.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cirje/index.htm
Lanius, Mary C
2590 S. Milwaukee St., Denver, CO 80210-6215
Tel: 303-756-3987

Fax: 303-756-8768
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Professor Emeritus, Art History/Museum Studies
Degrees: MA, University of Hawaii
Nelson, Sarah Milledge
2000 E. Asbury

University of Denver
Denver, CO 80208
Tel: (303) 871-2682
Fax: (303) 871-2437
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Professor, Dept. of Anthropology
Degrees: PhD, MA, University of Michigan
Distinctions: John Evans Professorship, Faculty Scholar-Teacher Award, Honorary Phi Beta Kappa
Research/Teaching focus: Archaeology of China and Korea - beginnings of complex society
Selected Publications: The Archaeology of Korea, Cambridge, 1993; The
Archaeology of Northeast China, Routledge, 1995; Gender in Archaeology: Analyzing Power and Prestige, Alta Mira 1997 (2nd edition due in 2004).
Zhang, Huijie
2000 E. Asbury, Sturm Hall 342

Denver, CO 80208
Tel: (303) 871-2708
Fax: (303) 871-4555.
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Lecturer, Department of Languages and Literatures
Degrees: MA., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado.
Research/teaching focus: Chinese language, literature, and culture.
Zhao, Suisheng
Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver
2201 S. Gaylord
Denver, CO 80208
Tel: 303-871-2401
Fax. 303-871-2456
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Associate Professor of International Studies; Executive Director of Center for China-US Cooperation; Editor, Journal of Contemporary China
Degrees: Ph.D. Univeristy of California.
Distinctions: recipient 1999-2000 Campbell National Fellowship at Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
Research/teaching focus: Chinese Politics, Chinese Foriegn Policy, PRC Political and Economic History.
Selected publications: Decision-making in Deng's China (M. E. Sharpe), Power by Design: Constitution-making in Nationalist China (Hawaii U. Press), Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan, and the Crisis of 1995-96 (Routledge), China and Democracy: Reconsidering the Prospects for a Democratic China (Routlege), Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior (M. E. Sharpe).
University of Northern Colorado
Yagami, Kazuo
Hall 3280A
Greeley, CO 80639
Tel: (970) 351-2114
Fax: 970-351-2199
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Lecturer, East Asian History & Southeast Asia History
Degrees: Ph.D. Florida State University, 2002.
Research/teaching focus: Modern Japan & US-Japan Relations.
Selected publications: Konoe Fumimaro and the Failure of Peace in Japan, 1931-1941: A Critical Appraisal of Three-time Prime Minster, forthcoming 2006

Web Page: Yagami.


Last Updated: Fri, Dec 9, 2005

The Center for Asian Studies
University of Colorado at Boulder, UCB 279
Boulder, CO 80300-0279, USA
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