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Trian Nguyen

Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Asian art history, Daoist ceremonial paintings, East Asian ceramic, Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation and his impact, Vietnamese Buddhist sculpture

Susan A. Dewsnap

Lecturer in Art and Visual Culture

color theory, creation of ceramic art works with drawn and painted surfaces for exhibition, exhibition planning and negotiation, glaze chemistry testing and development, high and low fire technology using gas and electric kilns, ornamentation and pattern, studio practice, utilitarian ceramics, wheel throwing and hand building technologies

Justine K. Wiesinger

Associate Professor of Japanese

Wesley B. Chaney

Associate Professor of History

Helen C. Boucher

Professor of Psychology

cross-cultural differences in self-related processes (US vs. East Asia comparisons), cultural psychology, ego depletion model, meaning in life, meaning maintenance model, money priming, naive dialecticism, positive psychology, psychology of social class, self-concept, self-esteem, self-regulation, social psychology, terror management theory

Senem Aslan

Professor of Politics

comparative politics, ethnic conflict, Middle East politics, Moroccan politics, nationalism, state-building, state-minority relations, symbolic politics, Turkish politics

Raluca Cernahoschi

Associate Professor of German

contemporary German literature and film, East-Central European literature and film, film adaptation, German literature and culture since the 19th century, German literature and film, intercultural literature and film, literatures and cultures of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, poetry, Romanian-German literature, spatial constructions in literature and film

Zhenzhen Lu

Assistant Professor of Chinese

archival research, chinese language pedagogy, cultural studies, dramatic literature, late imperial China, literature and history, manuscript studies, material culture, performance studies, popular culture, vernacular literatures of East Asia

Özgür Özkan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics

Civil-Military Relations, comparative politics, ethnic conflict, international relations, international security, Middle Eastern studies, National Security, NATO-Russia Relations, Political violence, security cooperation

Alison Melnick

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

18th Century Tibetan History, Asian religious history, Chinese borderland religions, Gender and Authority in Tibet, gender and religion, Hagiography in Asian contexts, Privilege studies, Religion and Gender in Asia, Religions of China, Religions of South Asia, Tibetan religion, Tibetan religion and history