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CAS Graduate Student Directory

This is a listing of Graduate students at CU who have an Asian-emphasis in their studies.

Cole V. Akeson
cole.akeson@colorado.edu
Department: Geography
Research interests: Human Geography, Anthropology, Civil Society, NGOs, former Soviet Union, Ukraine, Central Asia
Languages:Russian, Spanish, Tajik (elementary)
Expected graduation date: May 2010
Previous degree(s): BA in Geography, Urban Studies, Anthropology (minor) Macalester College
Jennifer Beltzer
jennifer.beltzer@colorado.edu
Department: History
Research interests: Gender in modern Europe and Japan
Languages: French, German, Italian
Expected graduation date: May 2011
Previous degree(s): BA History cum laude CU; BA French CU
Daniel Burton-Rose
daniel.burton-rose@colorado.edu
Department: Asian Languages and Civilizations
Research interests:Daoism, Medicine, Popular Religion, Buddhism, Late Ming popular literature.
Languages: Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish
Title of Thesis:
Late Imperial Daoist Inner Alchemy: A Contextualization and Annotated Translation of Xingming guizhi
Expected graduation date: May 2009
Previous degree(s): BA Oberlien College
Graham Chamness
graham.chamness@colorado.edu
Department: Asian Languages and Civilizations
Research interests: Early Chinese poetry; rhetoric; Daoism
Languages: Chinese, Japanese, Latin, Greek, Italian
Expected graduation date: May 2010
Previous degree(s): University of Colorado, BA Classics
Afton Clark-Sather
afton.sather-knutsen@colorado.edu
Department:Geography
Research interests: China, Human-Environment Interactions, Ethnic and National Identity.
Languages: Mandarin
Expected graduation date: 2011
Previous degree(s): MS Environmental Policy, Michigan Tech; BA Politics, Whitman College
Heng Du
heng.du@colorado.edu
Department: Asian Languages and Civilizations
Research interests: Chinese Literature
Languages: Chinese, Japanese
Expected graduation date:
Previous degree(s): BA Classics, Comparative Literature
Daniel M. DuBois
daniel.dubois@colorado.edu
Department: History
Research interests: US Foreign relations; US-China relations
Languages: Spanish, Chinese
Expected graduation date: 2013/2014
Previous degree(s): BA History
Robert K. Eschbach
robert.eschbach@colorado.edu
Department: Religious Studies
Research interests: Chan/Zen Buddhism
Languages: Japanese
Expected graduation date: May 2010
Previous degree(s): Michigan State University, Philosophy, BA
Rachel Fleming
rachel.fleming@colorado.edu
Department: Anthropology
Research interests: Urban development, Public space, Gender, South Asia (South India)
Languages: Hindi
Expected graduation date: Spring 2013
Previous degree(s): BA Anthropology, Dartmouth College; MA City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ian Stuart Ferguson
Ian.S.Ferguson@Colorado.EDU
Department: Asian Languages and Civilizations
Research interests: Japanese language education and Japanese folklore
Languages: Japanese
Expected graduation date: TBD
Brandon Gilbert
brandon.gilbert@colorado.edu
Department: Asian Languages and Civilizations
Research interests:Modern/Contemporary Japanese Literature
Languages: Japanese
Expected graduation date: May 2011
Previous degree(s): University of Colorado, Japanese BA, Journalism BS
Dongmin Lee
dongmin.lee@colorado.edu
Department: Political Science
Research interests: Chinese politics; Political economy; Military in politics.
Languages: Chinese, Korean, Japanese.
Expected graduation date: Spring 2009
Previous degree(s): Chinese, Japanese, Political Science BA; Political Science MA.
Publications: “Chinese Civil-Military Relations: The Divestiture of People’s Liberation Army Business Holdings.” Vol.32, No.3, Armed Forces & Society, April 2006; “Election Years, Domestic Factors and Security Dynamics in East Asia: Review of International Conference”, (with Liu Qunmei), International and Strategic Studies Report, Volume 18, (June, 2008) [In Chinese]
Fang Liang
fang.liang-1@colorado.edu
Department: Asian Languages and Civilizations
Research interests: Chinese Literature; Chinese dialects
Languages: Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Sichuanese)
Expected graduation date: Spring 2012
Previous degree(s): BA Chinese Language and Literature; MA Journalism.
Thomas Mazanec
Thomas.Mazanec@Colorado.EDU
Department: Comparative Literature
Research interests: East-West Poetics
Languages: Modern Chinese, Classical Chinese, English, and very basic French and Spanish
Expected graduation date: Spring 2011
Previous degree(s): B.A. in English and Asian Studies, Calvin College.
Michael H. Meyer
michael.h.meyer@colorado.edu
Department: Asian Languages and Civilizations
Research interests: Chinese Literature
Languages: Japanese, German
Expected graduation date:December 2009
Previous degree(s): University of Colorado, ALC, BA.
Chad Nilep
chad.nilep@colorado.edu

Department: Linguistics
Research interests: Language learning; socio-cultural linguistics; Japan
Languages: Japanese, Spanish
Expected graduation date: Dec 2009
Previous degree(s): University of North Dakota, BA Liberal Arts.
Publications: "Sibling Interaction and Symbolic Capital." Journal of Pragmatics (under review); "Identity and Code Choice." In Xoán Paulo Rodríguez Yáñez, Anxo M. Lorenzo Suárez, and Fernando Ramallo, Actas do II Simposio Internacional sobre o Bilingüismo. Vigo, Galicia, Spain: Servizo de Publicacións da Universidade de Vigo. 2004; "Animating functions of quotative particles to and tte in spoken Japanese." JSLS 2003 The 5th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Science. 60-65. 2003. (with Junko Fujimoto)

Chad Pennington
chad.pennington@colorado.edu
Department: Linguistics
Research interests: TESOL, language acquisition, Chinese language and linguistics.
Thesis/Dissertation title: English for Special Purposes
Languages: Spanish, Mandarin, Finnish
Expected graduation date: May 2010
Previous degree(s): Music and Cultural Studies, BA.
Jennifer Perez
Jennifer.Perez@Colorado.EDU
Department: Linguistics
Research interests:
Languages:English, Japanese, Basic Chinese, Basic French
Expected graduation date: Spring 2011
Previous degree(s):
Jonathan Pilgrim
jonathan.pilgrim@colorado.edu
Department: Religious Studies
Research interests: Theravada Buddhist philosophy and symbolism
Languages: French, Sanskrit
Expected graduation date: May 2010
Previous degree(s): Philosophy BS; Architecture MA.
Hisako Schibli
hisako.schibli@colorado.edu
Department: Asian Languages and Civilizations
Research interests: Japanese Language Pedagogy, Heritage Language Pedagogy in Japanese
Languages: Japanese
Expected graduation date: Dec 2009
Previous degree(s): BA in Management
Henry Schliff
mschliffer@yahoo.com
Department: Religious Studies
Research interests: Tibetan-Buddhist studies textual and ethnographic work; India
Languages: Tibetan, Hebrew
Expected graduation date: Spring 2011
Margaret Shugart
shugartm@colorado.edu
Department: Anthropology
Research interests: Nutritional anthropology; rice farming in Bali
Languages: Indonesian, French
Expected graduation date: Dec 2009
Previous degree(s): University of Texas, Anthropology BA, Religious Studies BA.
Bozena Christina Welborne
welborne@colorado.edu
Department: Political Science
Research interests: Comparative politics of the Middle East, Dissertation title: "Between the Veil and the Vote: Exploring the Variation in Women's Political Incorporation across the Middle East and North Africa
Languages:Arabic (advanced intermediate), Serbo-Croatian, German, Italian, Russian, French
Expected graduation date: PhD Candidate
Previous degree(s): M.A. in Political Science from CU-Boulder, B.A. in International Political Economy from Colorado College
Adam Stokes Williams
adam.williams@colorado.edu
Department:Geography
Research interests: Migration; Recycling; Urban space; China
Languages:Chinese
Expected graduation date:2013
Ethan Windschitl
pankeeki@gmail.com
Department: Asian Langauges and Civilizations
Research interests: Edo-period literature (travel diaries)
Languages: Japanese, Mandarin
Expected graduation date: 2011
Previous degree(s): BA Japanese
Amy Zader
amy.zader@colorado.edu
Department: Geography
Research interests: Food and agriculture, Cultural Geography, Political Ecology, China
Languages:Chinese
Expected graduation date: PhD candidate
Previous degree(s): BA, Environmental Studies, Allegheny College,
MA Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic