Faculty Research in Asia

(Faculty Members are listed alphabetically)

Ali, Saleem- International Studies

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Artisanal Gemstone Mining and the Environment

The first comaprative study of the environmental impact of colored gemstone mining in Madagascar, thailand and Brazil. The project is funded by the Tiffany Foundation and also includes an informative documentary and a guidance manual for miners

Dr. Ali's research focuses on the causes and consequences of environmental conflicts and how ecological factors can promote peace. He has also on the visting faculty for the United Nations University for Peace (Costa Rica), where he teaches a course on Indigenous Environment and Development Conflicts. Much of his empirical research has focused on environmental conflicts in the mineral sector and he is the author of Mining, the Environment and Indigenous Development Conflicts (published the University of Arizona Press, fall 2003). In the spring of 2005, he received a two-year grant from the Tiffany Foundation to embark on a comparative study of the environmental and social impact of gemstone mining in Madgascar, Brazil and Myanmar / Burma.

Anderson, Douglas- Anthropology

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I have two projects:

(1) I am investigating the nature of interactions among the various Eskimo groups of northwestern Alaska over the past millennium. This has involved integrating biological, historical, ethnographic and archaeological data to determine the changes in settlement patterning, response to climatic change, and most importantly, technological and social adjustments to fluctuating resources. Key to understanding the nature of these adjustments is identifying how the critical raw materials move from their source areas to the people in the rest of the region. Possible mechanisms by which materials move from one area to the next are trade, peaceful arrangements between groups for self-acquisition, or predatory raids. Each mechanism implies a different set of social arrangements between groups. The archaeological and ethnographic research for the project, funded by NSF, NPS, and Native organizations, has been completed. The final phase of the project is to identify the source areas of one of the major materials distributed throughout the region, namely slate. I am working with Peter Gromet, Department of Geological Sciences, to identify the isotopic signatures of the northwest Alaskan archaeological and bedrock slates, which can shed light on the pattern of distribution of these slates from source areas to the Eskimo settlements. We are working up an NSF proposal for fieldwork to identify the slate sources from which our archaeological materials have been derived. Once identified, we can begin to understand the history of interaction between the groups.

(2) Following my earlier research on the earliest periods of human occupation in Southeast Asia (funded by the National Geographic Society and the National Research Council of Thailand), I am continuing my research on the development of human coastal adaptations in Southeast Asia by focusing on excavations of the coastal cave and rockshelter sites in southwest Thailand dating to the time of the mid-Holocene sea level maximum. Although I have published several articles on the project and have written up a large proposal to be submitted to NSF, I am waiting the completion of my Alaskan project before initiating the Southeast Asian research.

Anderson, Wanni- Anthropology

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My current research is on a new Southeast Asian-American ethnic group, the Thai Americans. It is a comparative study of the American-born group living in America and the Thailand-born group living in Bangkok ,Thailand, as biracial Americans of Thai and American parents. Another area of research is an extension of my earlier study of the Thai Muslims in southwestern Thailand, where moderate Islam is practiced. Its goal is to locate their Muslim-ness within diverse global Islamic religious practices, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Southeast Asia and their current position in Thai national politics. The book, "At the Crossroads: Thai Muslims of the Andaman Coast", has been accepted for publication by Silkworn Books, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Beeman, William- Anthropology

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William O. Beeman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota and President of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association. He was formerly Professor of Anthropology and Director of Middle East Studies at Brown University, where he continues as Adjunct Professor. Best known as a Middle East Specialist for more than 30 years, he has also worked in Central Asia, the Caucasus, Japan, China and South Asia. Recognized for special expertise in Iranian culture, he is the author or editor of more than 100 scholarly articles, 500 opinion pieces and 14 books, including Language, Status and Power in Iran, and The "Great Satan" vs. the "Mad Mullahs": How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other. He has served as consultant to the United States State Department, the Department of Defense, the United Nations and the United States Congress. A frequent commentator on international radio and television, his written opinion pieces have also appeared in major newspapers throughout the world.

Ben-Yehuda, Ruth Adler- Judaic Studies

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Ruth Adler Ben Yehuda holds a B.A. degree in Hebrew and Arabic Language and a M.A. degree in Hebrew Language from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Before coming to Brown University in 1989, she served as Hebrew Instructor at Academic Rank in the Division of Hebrew Language Instruction, and Head Teacher at the Rothberg School for Overseas Studies of the Hebrew University. Her responsibilities also included supervising, training, and creating study materials for Hebrew teachers. She also served as Pedagogical Director in the Division of Adult Education in ORT ISRAEL. She supervised an adult education division consisting of thirty-five courses in various vocational fields; hired teachers; prepared and developed educational programs; updated course content; and guided students on how to fill their requirements as determined by the Israel Ministry of Education.

In addition to instructing beginning, intermediate, and advanced Hebrew language courses at Brown, Ruth is the Founder and Director of the Providence Ulpan,TAMAR, which is the first Hebrew Ulpan in Rhode Island; and the coordinator of Hebrew language instruction at the Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island in Providence. Since June 2002, Ruth has been an active member of the Hebrew Board of the New National Middle East Language Resource Center, which was initiated by the U.S. Department of Education. Ruth has been selected by the Undergraduate Council of Students at Brown University for the 2005 Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Bickford, Maggie- History of Art & Architecture

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Maggie Bickford is an historian of art and culture in pre-modern China. She is author of Ink Plum: The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre (Cambridge UP 1986), which won the Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Pre-Modern China, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies for the best book of the year in any area on China before the 20th-century. In addition to numerous scholarly articles, she is author and chief curator of the exhibition and scholarly catalogue Bones of Jade, Soul of Ice, the Flowering Plum in Chinese Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 1985), which received the American Association of Museums Award of Distinction. These projects explored genre development and cross-medium developments, including formative interactions between visual and textual cultures.

Professor Bickford is a leader in developing syncretic methodologies in multi-disciplinary explorations of key issues in the history of art and culture in China. She currently is engaged in two book projects.

In The Shape of Good Fortune: Auspicious Visuality in China, she investigates visualizations of good outcomes (fecundity, longevity, prosperity, peace, and legitimacy) in China during its long imperial period (221BC-1911). In studying these longest and broadest visual traditions in China, she explores intersections and interactions among imperial, elite, and popular traditions and among textual representations, fine arts, and material culture.

In Emperor Huizong and Late Northern Song China: the Politics of Culture and the Culture of Politics (forthcoming Harvard University Press, August 2006), Professor Bickford served as co-editor and contributor, working with a group of thirteen scholars from the U.S. and Asia to explore the formative initiatives and consequential interventions of Emperor Huizong (r. 1101-1125) in areas ranging from political administration and frontier warfare to medicine, music, poetry, and art. Professor Bickford's Huizong studies focus on painting and calligraphy as instruments of emperorship in the Song dynastic project of rule by culture. She joined issues of auspicious visuality to the deployment of visual art as an instrument of rule in her recent publication, "Emperor Huizong and the Aesthetic of Agency, in Archives of Asian Art, LIII (2002-2003):71-104.

Supported by Brown funding, she currently is investigating the potential of computer-assisted close-viewing in research and pedagogy. Projects include: restructuring the history of early painting in China by repositioning canonical works that actually are the creations of later times; reconstructing Song illustrated manuscript culture with respect to the aesthetification of useful knowledge; and, using digital tools to expose the reduplicative mechanics that were employed in imperial Song paintings attributed to individual artists.

Buka, Stephen- Community Health

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Stephen Buka, Sc.D. is Professor and Epidemiology Section Head for the Department of Community Health, and Director of the Center for Population Health and Clinical Epidemiology. With training in epidemiology and developmental psychology, his work focuses on the causes and prevention of major psychiatric and cognitive disorders of children, youth and adults. Current studies include investigations of prenatal risks for schizophrenia, attention deficit disorder and addictive disorders, including neuroimaging and molecular genetics techniques; work on the long-term effects of maternal smoking on offspring health and behavior; community-level influences on youth substance use and delinquency; and community-based strategies for the prevention of adolescent drinking and drug use. He directs the New England Family Study, a 50-year, three-generation longitudinal study of 17,000 infants born in New England in the 1960s. This work provides a unique opportunity to identify both environmental and genetic factors that contribute to the etiology, and ideally prevention, of major forms of psychiatric illness and is supported by several major foundations and sections of the National Institutes of Health.

Cammett, Melani- Political Science

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Melani Cammett (Ph.D, U.C. Berkeley 2002) is Kutayba Alghanim Assistant Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Political Science at Brown University as well as an Academy Scholar at the Weatherhead Center at Harvard University. She specializes in the political economy of development and the Middle East and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on comparative politics, development, and Middle East politics. Her book, Globalization and Business Politics in North Africa: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2007) examines how integration in global manufacturing chains reshapes business politics in developing countries. She has published articles in Comparative Politics, World Development, Competition and Change, Global Governance and Arab Studies Journal. Cammett's second book project, "Social Welfare in Plural Societies," focuses on how people gain access to social services in multi-ethnic societies with extensive non-state provision of social welfare.

Carpenter, Charles- Medicine

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Dr. Carpenter has been involved in the care of persons living with HIV since 1982. He served as the site Director of the longitudinal CDC-supported HIV Epidemiology Research Study (HERS) from 1992-1999, and is now Principal Investigator of the CDC-supported SUN Study of the Natural History of HIV/AIDS in the era of effective antiretroviral therapy.

Dr. Carpenter has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Brown University Fogarty AITRP Program since its inception, has participated in the training of Fogarty fellows from each of the participating sites, and is currently involved in on-going research in Chennai, India.

Dr. Carpenter is Director of the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research. He currently serves as Chair of the Treatment Subcommittee of the Congressionally mandated NAS/IOM Committee to evaluate the President's Emergency Plan for HIV/AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Clemens, Steven- Geological SciencesGeological Sciences

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I received my Ph.D. in Marine Geology at Brown University in May, 1990. I was then hired as an Adjunct Lecturer at Brown in 1992, and was promoted to Associate Professor of Research in 2005. I am currently working with the Earth Systems History (ESH) research group within the Department of Geological Sciences.

Cokes, Anthony- Modern Culture and Media

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Pop Manifestos

In January 2005 I exhibited a seven-channel video installation and audio database containing the complete Pop Manifestos series. The work was commissioned for a group exhibition "Murmur" at TENT from January 26 – February 26, 2005 in association with the Rotterdam International Film Festival. After its successful premiere, this project has been exhibited at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Belgium, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany, Seoul Net & Film Festival, Seoul, Korea, and Images Festival, Toronto, Canada. The video elements were also purchased for a private collection in Germany. In addition, in September 2005 I was invited to participate in the Seoul Net & Film Festival as a member of the jury for the International Competition. Multiple videotapes from the series have also been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France; Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Cloth Hall, Ypres, Belgium; and Sarai, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India. Currently I am negotiating regarding a possible updating / expansion of the Pop Manifestos installation project during spring 2007.

Coleman, Annette- BioMed: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, & Biochemistry

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Most recently my laboratory has examined the nature, quantity and mode of distribution of DNA genomes of mitochondria and plastids. The second area of laboratory concentration concerns the species problem, how separate species evolve. The work examines particular species and genera of the volvocales, freshwater green algae, brown algae, and abalones, and the analysis includes mating compatibility, chromosome number, and DNA relatedness as determined by sequencing.

Cu-Uvin, Susan- Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Dr. Susan Cu-Uvin is an Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine at Brown University. She is the Director of the Immunology Center at the Miriam Hospital, Brown University, a clinic that serves almost 1,200 HIV infected patients. She is also the director of the Women and AIDS Core, for the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) at Brown University. She is director of the Research program of the Brown/ Women and Infants Hospital Center of Excellence in Women's Health. She devotes 100% of her time to HIV related care and clinical research. She was the Chair of the Women's Health Committee of the Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group (AACTG) from 2004-2006. She is the Principal Investigator of an RO1 to assess antiviral therapy and HIV in the female genital tract (AI40350), an co-PI of an RO3 to assess HIV-1 genital tract shedding among Cambodian women (TW6981), and a World AIDS Foundation grant to establish a HIV women's clinic in Cambodia and provide training to Cambodian health care professionals for research readiness for future projects related to HIV in women. She is a co-investigator of the CDC funded study to understand the natural history of HIV and AIDS in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (SUN).She served on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Perinatal Transmission of HIV to investigate interventions to decrease vertical transmission of HIV within the United States. She chaired the NIH advisory committee on HIV related research in women and girls in 2008 and is a member of the NIH advisory committee on HIV related research in microbicides. She is also a member of the Global Microbicide Project scientific advisory group. She is a member of the Fogarty Executive Committee at Brown University and has been a very active mentor for international trainees in HIV/AIDS care and research.

Emigh, John- Theatre, Speech & Dance

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John Emigh is a professor in the Theatre, Speech, and Dance Department at Brown University, where he has been teaching and directing since 1967. He has directed more than 70 plays in universities and in the professional theatre. In 1974-75, he traveled in New Guinea, South Asia, and Indonesia, where he studied Balinese topeng masked dance with I Nyoman Kakul. Since then, he has made several other research trips to Asia, investigating the street jesters and court fools of Rajasthan, the use of masks in Eastern India, and the changing dynamics of performance in Bali. He was co-ordinator of the Rhode Island New Theatre Festival of 1971, was the founding chairperson of the Association for Asian Performance, chaired Brown's Dept. of Theatre, Speech and Dance from 1987 to 1993, and last year directed Performance Studies international's conference and festival: Becoming Uncomfortable.

As a scholar, he has written extensively on the masked theatre of New Guinea, Bali, and India, as well as on modern and contemporary theatre practice in the West, and has made a film on the life of Hajari Bhand, a Rajasthani street performer. His Masked Performance: The Play of Self and Other in Ritual and Theatre, is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is a contributor to the recent book, Masks: Faces of Culture, put out by the St. Louis Art Museum, and is helping to prepare an interactive CD on the permanent collection of masks of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi. Other current research interests include linking the traditional concerns of those who make and study performances and recent findings in the field of neuro-science (a chapter on this subject is included in Teaching Performance Studies, University of Southern Illinois Press), and work on religious and secular theatre during times of crisis in India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Alpine Europe.

As a performer, he has acted with leading Balinese artists and has performed one-man shows based on Balinese mask techniques at schools, hospitals, universities, theatres, and festivals throughout the United States and in Bali and India, including The Performing Garage in New York City, The New Theatre Festival of Baltimore, the Indian National School for Drama, the Tibetan School of Drama, and the Balinese Academy for the Arts. His performances have been written about in The Drama Review and the Asian Theatre Journal, as well as in various Asian journals.

Feng, Zhanlian- Bio Med Gerontology Health

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Zhanlian Feng received a B.A. (1991) in sociology from Peking University and both his M.A. (1999) and Ph.D. (2002) degrees in sociology and population studies from Brown University. He began his career in 2001 as a Research Analyst in the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown, and recently, was appointed Assistant Professor of Community Health (Research) in 2007. His research interest has focused on long-term care for the elderly, especially those institutionalized in nursing homes. Dr. Feng has published 22 peer-reviewed articles, some of which appear in top-notch health care and policy journals, including Health Services Research, Health Affairs, Medical Care, and Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. He is a Co-Investigator on a recent project funded by the NIH Fogarty International Center to study the emerging elder care institutions in two major Chinese cities, Nanjing and Tianjin.

Flores, Jorge- Portuguese & Brazilian Studies; History

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My first research project, leading to the publication of a book in Portuguese - 'Os Portugueses e o Mar de Ceilão: trato, diplomacia e guerra (1498-1543)' (Cosmos, 1998) - was in the field of maritime history of the Central Indian Ocean. It consisted in the study of commercial, poltical and social networks shaping the "Sea of Ceylon" (a new geohistorical concept developed in the book and comprising the lively world of the west coast of Sri Lanka and the southern tip of the Indian Peninsula), as well as the Portuguese strategies in the early 16th century to control this narrow sea. A set of subsequent publications, especially a collection of articles published under the title 'A Taprobana e a Ponte de Rama. Estudos sobre os Portugueses em Ceilão e a na Índia do Sul' (IPOR, 2004)are parcels of this first research area that I continue to nurture to date.

Working at the University of Macau in the early 1990s made me pay closer attention to the eastern end of the Portuguese network in maritime Asia and consequently pursued research on 16th-17th century Macau and its place in the complex political and commercial games of China and the South China Sea. The study of Sino-Portuguese relations led me to analyse the respective political mechanisms - intelligence, ritual and protocol, the role of interpreters-translators and the social dimensions of political communication, etc - and I have been recently working on these topics in order to understand the structure of the Portuguese relationship with early modern South Asian states.

My current research concerns the social and political communication between the Portuguese 'Estado da Índia', the Mughal Empire and the Deccan sultanates in the 16th-17th centuries. I have been devoting particular attention to the interface between political developments around Goa and Portuguese-European representations of the Mughals. This reflects my ongoing interest in combining history of the Portuguese expansion in Asia and cultural history of Europe in the early modern era. The project will explore relevant articulations between political and cultural history where the construction of European images of the Indo-Persian World is concerned.

Foster, Andrew- Economics and Community Health

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Andrew Foster, Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics and Professor of Community Health, received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988. He is an empirical microeconomist with interests in the areas of population, environment, development, and health. Recent work has examined economic growth in rural India, exploring such issues as growth in the non-farm economy, the effects of local democratization, groundwater usage, forest cover, household structure, inequality, and schooling. He also is exploring the effects of recent changes in air quality in Delhi. Foster also has a series of projects with colleagues in the Center for Gerentology examining the market for nursing home care.

Friedman, Jennifer- Pediatrics

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Dr. Friedman's research addresses how parasitic diseases, particularly malaria and schistosomiasis cause morbidity for pregnant women and children. We have focused on how schistosomiasis causes anemia and undernutrition. In particular, we have identified anemia of inflammation as a primary cause of schistosomiasis related anemia. In addition, our studies suggest that pro-inflammatory cytokines may mediate under-nutrition in the context of S. japonicum, due to their cachexia and anorexia inducing effects.

Our current studies seek to quantify the burden of S. japonicum infection during pregnancy and begin to understand the possible mechanisms. The mechanisms that will be studied include placental inflammation, maternal anemia of inflammation, and maternal cachexia/anorexia. These will be addressed using a randomized controlled trial design that will begin subject recruitment in early 2007 in The Philippines.

Goldstein, Sidney- Sociology

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Sidney Goldstein, founder and first director of the Population Studies and Training Center, has been at Brown since 1955.

An internationally recognized expert on internal migration and urbanization, Goldstein conducts research on population distribution, urbanization, types of migration, and the interrelations between migration and fertility. While much of his work has focused on Southeast Asia and China, he has also done extensive research on the demography of Jews, focusing on the extent of their geographic mobility and its impact on integration into the community.

Goldstein received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1953 and has since served in a number of capacities, including Director of the Center (1960-89) and Chair of the Sociology Department (1963-70). During 1976-1977, he served as President of the Population Association of America. Although retired from teaching since 1993, he continues as an active researcher and advisor in the PSTC, holding the title Professor of Population Studies (Research). Goldstein is currently working with Alice Goldstein on a United Nations- funded project for training and research in migration involving Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Guatemala in which other faculty associated with the PSTC also participate. Through support from the Mellon Foundation, the project has been expanded to include South Africa. The surveys already completed in Vietnam and Ethiopia, and soon to be undertaken in Guatemala and South Africa will generate comparable data, the analyses of which will be presented at the final International Seminar planned in the fall of 2000.

Hamburg, Steven- Environmental Studies

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A team of Brown researchers is involved in a novel environmental investigation of a transboundary Israeli-Palestinian watershed. This study will contribute enormously to understanding the environmental component of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Professor Hamburg heads a team of Brown researchers in a novel environmental investigation of a transboundary Israeli-Palestinian watershed. Funded by Brown's Office for the Vice President for Research in 2004, the enterprise will enhance the Environmental Change Initiative, of which the Middle East Environmental Futures project is a related activity.

The Middle East Environmental Futures Project is an interdisciplinary group of Israeli and Palestinian scholars convened by Professor Hamburg in the summers of 2002 and 2003 at the Watson Institute, and of which the proposed watershed study is a part. If this study is successfully carried out, it could stand as among the most important transboundary environmental assessments to date as well as contributing enormously to understanding of the environmental component of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. As the initiator of this project, Brown hopes to present itself as a leader in the field of transboundary environmental research and Israeli-Palestinian studies.

Henderson, J. Vernon- Economics

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Vernon Henderson is the Eastman Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and Urban Studies at Brown University, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has been at Brown since 1974. His Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago and his B.A. from the University of British Columbia. He has conducted research on aspects of urbanization and local government finance and regulation in the USA, Brazil, Canada, India, China, Korea and Indonesia.

Hogan, Dennis- Sociology

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My areas of research involve the interrelationships of the family lives of individual persons (for example, whether and when they marry, when they become parents, how many children they have) and their social environments (family and community origins, educational opportunities and the structure of schools, employment opportunities, cultural definitions of expected roles). My approach is broadly comparative, including studies of race, ethnic and immigrant groups and majority populations in the United States over the 20th century, Italian social history, and contemporary Mexico, Colombia, Thailand, and Japan.

Huang, Yongsong- Geological Sciences

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I received my B.S. in Geochemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1984, my M.S. in Analytical Chemistry from the Chengdu University of Science and Technology of China in 1987, a Ph.D. in Geochemistry from the Institute of Geochemistry/Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Organic Geochemistry from the University of Bristol, UK in 1997. Before coming to Brown, I worked as a Postdoc at Penn State and as a Guest Investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

Hu-Dehart, Evelyn- History

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Professor Hu-DeHart was born in China and immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was 12. As an undergraduate at Stanford University she studied in Brazil on an exchange program. She became fascinated with Latin America and that interest eventually led her to a Ph.D. in Latin American history. She has written two books on the Yaqui Indians, and is now engaged in a large research project on the Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Jiang, Leiwen- Environment Sciences (specified in demography)

Jiang received his Ph.D. in environmental sciences (specified in demography) from the University of Amsterdam in 1999. He conducted post-doc research at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, and was Visiting Scholar at Vienna Institute for Demogr

Jiang received his Ph.D. in environmental sciences (specified in demography) from the University of Amsterdam in 1999. He conducted post-doc research at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, and was Visiting Scholar at Vienna Institute for Demography, Summer Faculty Fellow at the Center for Institutional, Population and Environmental Change, Indiana University. Prior to joining Brown in 2002, he was Associate Professor at Institute of Population Research, Peking University. He is also Guest Researcher at International Institute for Applied System Analysis and Adjunct Professor at Peking University.

Johnson, Wilbur- Education

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The main focus of my research is on practical aspects of combining critical pedagogical theory with classroom practice. Recently, this has been particularly focused on helping new teachers adapt to working in a variety of educational sites, retaining their commitment to student-centered, constructivist education. My previous work on performance-based assessment and student-centered classrooms is integrated with this work.

My other area of research interest is in school leadership: specifically, how can school leaders implement progressive change under the pressures of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and standardized testing.

The main focus of my research is on practical aspects of combining critical pedagogical theory with classroom practice. Recently, this has been particularly focused on helping new teachers adapt to working in a variety of educational sites, retaining their commitment to student-centered, constructivist education. My previous work on performance-based assessment and student-centered classrooms is integrated with this work.

My other area of research interest is in school leadership: specifically, how can school leaders implement progressive change under the pressures of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and standardized testing.

The main focus of my research is on practical aspects of combining critical pedagogical theory with classroom practice. Recently, this has been particularly focused on helping new teachers adapt to working in a variety of educational sites, retaining their commitment to student-centered, constructivist education. My previous work on performance-based assessment and student-centered classrooms is integrated with this work.

My other area of research interest is in school leadership: specifically, how can school leaders implement progressive change under the pressures of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and standardized testing.

Jones Luong, Pauline- Political Science

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Pauline Jones Luong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. From 1998-2004, she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1998 and was a Harvard Academy Scholar from 1998-1999 and 2001-2002. Her primary research interests include: institutional origin and change; identity and conflict; and the political economy of market reform. Her empirical work focuses primarily on the former Soviet Union. She has published articles in several leading academic and policy journals, including the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Current History, Europe-Asia Studies, Foreign Affairs, Perspectives on Politics, Politics and Society, and Resources Policy. Her books include Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, and Pacts (Cambridge 2002) and The Transformation of Central Asia: States and Societies from Soviet Rule to Independence (Cornell 2003). Her current book projects include 1) Enriching the State: Resource Wealth, Ownership Structure, and Institutional Capacity and 2) State Strategies, Islamic Radicalism, and International Security.

Kelleher, Catherine- Litt

Litt

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Kelleher has taught and written extensively on conventional and nuclear arms control as well as on German, Russian, and European security issues. She is professor of strategic research at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, and senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Her government service includes service as Clinton's deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and the secretary of defense's representative to NATO in Brussels, and on President Carter's National Security Council staff. She is a former senior fellow of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, and she directed the Aspen Institute, Berlin. She has been decorated for her public service by both the American and German governments and received a DLitt from Mt. Holyoke College and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kelleher founded the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) and was the first president of Women in International Security (WIIS). In 2005, she completed 15 years of service as vice chair of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academies of Sciences and directed annual policy dialogues with China, Russia, and India.

Khrushchev, Sergei- International Studies

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As a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Dr. Khrushchev focuses his research on the former Soviet Union's transition from a centralized to a decentralized society, as well as its transformation from a central to a market economy and its international security during this transition. One of his points of interest is the creation of a criminal society in Russia, as a consequence of the mistakes in the early stages of market reformation. He is also interested in the history of the Cold War and the turning points in relations between the US and the Soviet Union in the Khrushchev, Eisenhower, and Kennedy periods. Another focus of Dr. Khrushchev's interests is the history of Soviet missiles and space development, in which he played an active role, from 1958-1968.

Kurtis, Jonathan- Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

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Dr. Jonathan Kurtis applies the techniques of molecular biology, immunology and population biology to identify vaccine candidates for both malaria and schistosomiasis in east Africa and the Philippines. By analyzing the relationship between specific immune responses and naturally acquired resistance in endemic populations, Dr. Kurtis identifies and characterizes new vaccine candidates. His current interests include the modulation of protective immune responses by nutritional and developmental factors in the human host and the identification of vaccine candidates for pediatric falciparum malaria.

Lee, Robert G.- American Civilization

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Robert G. Lee's current research is a study of how immigrant Chinese and their American-born citizen offspring constructed discourses of citizenship in the face of legal and social exclusion. Between 1882 and 1943, when they were excluded from immigration and prohibited from naturalization, American Chinese enacted a wide range informal citizenships: they made use of the courts; organized social, cultural and political institutions; and mobilized massive civil disobedience. Inventing Chinese America is an intellectual history of that experience and focuses on the ideas and cultural milieu in which American Chinese, immigrant and native born, established themselves as civic actors and in the process shaped and reshaped a distinctive Chinese-American identity.

Lee, Yong- Political Science

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All my research activities have to do with how the conception of identity, norms, and culture have affected policy choices of actors under investigaion. In particular, I conducted an extensive study of identity/interest nexus. Currenly, I am developing another dimension to this nexus with particular attention to the triangular relationship of power, identity, and interest in boundary making. Empirically, I investigate the emergence of the East Asian Community.

Levine, Ross- Economics

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Professor Levine's work focuses on the linkages among financial sector policies, the operation of financial systems, economic growth, poverty, and inequality.

Logan, John- Sociology

Sociology

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Dr. Logan completed his PhD in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1974. Before coming to Brown he was Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Administration at the University at Albany, SUNY; Director of the Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research; and Director of the Urban China Research Network. Since 2005 he has served at Brown as Director of the research initiative on Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences. Dr. Logan is co-author, along with Harvey Molotch, of Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. His most recent edited book, Urban China in Transition, was published by Blackwell in 2007.

Lu, Bing- Family Medicine

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Dr.Lu is an assistant professor of family medicaine (clinical) and biostatistician at the Brown University Center for Primary Care & Prevention (CPCP). Dr. Lu received his Dr.PH and MS in Biostatistics with minor in Epidemiology from School of Public Health, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Prior to his arrival in the United States, Dr. Lu earned his medical degree from the China Medical University and was an assistant professor in Nutrition Epidemiology at Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing. Dr. Lu has considerable experience in general statistics, with specific expertise in the correlated data analysis, design and analysis of clinical trials, cluster-unit trials and longitudinal analysis. Dr. Lu also has extensive research experience in nutrition epidemiology and public health research.

Luke, Nancy- Sociology

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Using Relationship Calendars to Improve Sexual Behavior Data among Kenyan Couples

This project aims to improve methods of data collection for sexual behavior in Kenya. Using a life course approach, we construct retrospective relationship histories for 600 young females and males and interview these respondents' marital and nonmarital sexual partners to create a unique matched partner sample.

Female Income and Family Welfare in India

This project examines the effect of female income on household decisions and outcomes, including child health and education, reproductive health, and marital violence, among tea plantation workers in South India. Data includes a survey of 4000 female workers and a qualitative component, consisting of in-depth interviews with female workers and their husbands and focus group discussions.

Research Interests

Social demography, marriage and family, gender, reproductive health, Africa and South Asia

Luke's research focuses on interactions between individuals in marital and nonmarital relationships and the reproductive health outcomes that consequently emerge, particularly for women. She has initiated two independent research programs to explore these issues, the first of which studies nonmarital sexual behavior in Africa. Using data from a survey of 2,700 male migrants in Kisumu, Kenya, that she co-directed in 2001 with Kaivan Munshi, a professor in the Department of Economics at Brown, she has been the first to rigorously measure and investigate the link between economic exchange within sexual partnerships (often referred to as "transactional sex") and unsafe sexual behavior. Her research finds that a market for unsafe sexual activity exists among nonmarital sexual relationships, where women trade off higher amounts of material assistance for agreeing to engage in sex without a condom. This work has been published in Economic Development and Cultural Change, Studies in Family Planning, and International Family Planning Perspectives. Kaivan Munshi and she use an instrumental variable to test for the causal effect of marriage on important economic outcomes in the city, and their work finds that marriage has a strong influence on employment, income, and remittances among the migrants. This work is published in the Review of Economics and Statistics. She continues to use these data to study the relationship between transfers to sexual partners and remittances to rural households and communities, as well as the phenomenon of "outside wives" among men in urban Kisumu.

Luke serves as principal investigator on an NICHD R21 grant that aims to improve quantitative data collection methods for sexual behavior in Africa. This work is joint with Shelley Clark, a demographer at the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University, and Eliya Zulu, a demographer at the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Using a lifecourse approach, the project will construct retrospective relationship histories for young female respondents and interview these respondents' male sexual partners to create a unique matched non-marital partner sample.

Luke's second research program explores interactions within marital relationships in the family and their effects on marital conflict and child welfare in South Asia. Luke presently serves as co-principal investigator on an NICHD R01 grant with Kaivan Munshi to analyze data they collected from a survey of 4,000 female tea plantation workers in South India in 2003 and ethnographic interviews Luke conducted subsequently with a sub-sample of women and their husbands in 2005. A primary aim of the project is examine the causal effect of female income on various outcomes. Their work thus far finds that an exogenous increase in female income leads to greater investments in child schooling and health, particularly among girl children, and greater risk of domestic violence. However, these effects are concentrated among the low castes. The explanation for these intriguing results is that low caste women — who have been historically disadvantaged in terms of gender and caste — assert their preferences within the household to invest in their children's human capital and move their families into the modern, globalizing economy. Nevertheless, this process does not occur without marital conflict and violence. A paper from this project is forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics, and several other papers are currently under revision and review.

Mayer, Kenneth Hugh- Medicine

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Professor of Medicine and Community Health, Brown; Director, Brown AIDS Program; Attending ID Physician, Miriam Hospital; Adjunct Professor, Harvard University's School of Public Health; Medical Research Director, Fenway Community Health. Conducted studies of HIV's natural history and transmission. One of the first clinical researchers in NE to care for patients living with AIDS. Director, Brown/Tufts/Lifespan Fogarty (NIH) AIDS International Research and Training Program. Has worked increasingly in India. Participant, lecturer and presenter at regional conferences and symposia on biological and behavioral approaches to prevention research and the development of community-based clinical research. Co-edited The Emergence of AIDS: Impact on Immunology, Microbiology, and Public Health, American Public Health Association Press. Has served on Data Safety and Monitoring Board of the NIH's AIDS Clinical Trials Group. Sits on several editorial boards of scientific publications. Has co-authored more than 350 articles, chapters and other publications on AIDS and related infectious disease topics.

McClain, James- History

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James L. McClain, is Professor and Chair of History, and received his Ph.D. in History from Yale. He has taught the history of early modern Japan at Brown for nearly a quarter century and is author of an award-winning book on Kanazawa: A Castle Town in Seventeenth-Century Japan (Yale University Press, 1982), and more recently a 700-page textbook, Japan: a Modern History, published in 2001 by W.W. Norton. He has further co-edited two volumes on Japanese cities, Edo and Osaka, in addition to articles in important venues. His research has won support over the years from the Japan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

McGarvey, Stephen- Community Health

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Stephen McGarvey is the Director of the International Health Institute and Professor of Community Health and Anthropology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Co-Editor of Annals of Human Biology. McGarvey earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Pennsylvania State University in 1980, and an M.P.H. in Epidemiology from Yale University. McGarvey is concerned with issues of human population biology and international health, specifically modernization-related induced socio-economic and behavioral changes, genetic and environmental influences on obesity and cardiovascular disease risk factor, tropical parasitology and child nutritional status and health, and environmental issues. His research involves developing-world countries such as Samoa, the Philippines, and Ghana.

Meyer, David- Sociology

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My research focuses on financial and other corporate decision-makers and their interactions within and among global cities. I travel to Hong Kong regularly for research and have interviewed many financiers and other senior corporate leaders there as part of my work on financial change and global cities. This was published as Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge University Press, 2000). I also have studied urban and regional development in the 19th-century United States. This was published by Johns Hopkins University Press as The Roots of American Industrialization (2003). My new book, Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America, was published in 2006 by Johns Hopkins University Press. [http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/8988.html] My current research is on the financial networks of Asia, especially as organized from Hong Kong.

O'Neill, Brian C.- Environmental Science

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My research focuses on integrated assessment of climate change. Given the disparate aspects of the climate problem – from socio-economic drivers of greenhouse gas emissions, to changes in the climate system, to political and economic response strategies – there is a strong need for integrative studies that can inform policy processes. I seek to address this need by advancing the field of integrated assessment in three areas: (1) understanding links between demography, energy and emissions, (2) approaches to accounting for uncertainty and learning (i.e., changes in uncertainty over time), and (3) analysis of medium-term strategies that keep open long-term policy options while uncertainties are reduced. For example, in the demography, energy, and emissions area a case study of the United States has demonstrated the potential effects of aging on future energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The analysis, carried out with several collaborators, involved the construction of a new set of household projections for the U.S. that quantifies how much the age structure of households might shift over the next 50-100 years. In addition, new methodology was developed to introduce age structure and household size into an energy-economic growth model. Emissions scenarios quantified using the new model show that in some cases, aging could reduce future emissions in the U.S. by as much as a third, relative to what would be expected if aging were ignored. Ongoing work is examining the influence of urbanization on future energy use and emission in China and India.

My work on uncertainty and learning examines the implications of learning (or changes in uncertainty over time) for climate change policy. The anticipation that we will learn more over time plays a key role in climate policy debates, particularly over the appropriate timing of emissions reduction policies. One ongoing area of interest is the global carbon cycle, where we are investigating how much and how fast uncertainty in future atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations might change as we learn more about the functioning of the carbon cycle. A second area of active research examines the potential for anticipating how uncertainty in future population projection may change, and its implications for future greenhouse gas emissions. Finally, in the area of medium-term response strategies, I am investigating options for climate policy strategies over the next 30-50 years that help link potential long-term climate change targets to short-term actions. Currently, the ultimate objective of international climate policy is to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases in the long term at a level that is not dangerous. Agreement on such a goal is unlikely to occur soon given the substantial uncertainties in long-term climate change outcomes and political differences among parties to the FCCC. Therefore, strategies for the interim period are needed that keep long-term options open while uncertainties are reduced through learning.

Operario, Don- Bio Med Community Health

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My research bridges behavioral sciences and public health, with a specific focus on social determinants and social sequelae of HIV/AIDS. I work with vulnerable populations for health disparities -including ethnic minorities, sexual minorities, and other disadvantaged groups in the United States and in developing world settings. I am fundamentally interested in conducting work that has direct public health and policy relevance, aimed especially toward improving outcomes in underprivileged communities. My current work is based in urban centers in the United States as well as international settings including China, South Africa, and ex-Soviet states in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Current funded research studies include: Integrating HIV/STD treatment and counseling in routine health care in rural China; HIV prevention for African American men in the United States; relationship dynamics contributing to high risk sexual behaviour and substance use for partners in a committed relationship; stigma and vulnerability for people living with HIV in Eastern Europe; social and economic consequences of AIDS, particularly among orphans and families in sub-Saharan Africa; health, resiliency and social support among sex workers; LGBT health and well-being.

Owens, Judith- Pediatrics

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Major research areas are as follows: 1) epidemiology (prevalence, risk factors, associated conditions) and treatment of sleep disorders in children; 2) pharmacologic treatment of sleep disorders in children; 3) pharmacologic treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children; 4) interaction between sleep and ADHD; 5) sleep and fatigue in medical training.

Papandonatos, George- Community Health

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J.M. McCaffery, G.D. Papandonatos, M.J. Lyons, & R. Niaura. "Educational attainment and heritability of self-reported hypertension among male Vietnam-Era twins". Psychosomatic Medicine, 2008,70:781-786.

Parrenas, Rhacel- American Civilization and Sociology

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Children of Immigrants

This collaborative project is a survey of the literature on the children of immigrants, commissioned by Polity Press in the United Kingdom.

Intimate Labor

This on-going project is a co-edited collection on the subject of "intimate labor," which brings together the often discretely examined labors of care, sex, and domestic work. This volume wishes to illustrate the continued labor market segregation of women, but at the same time examine the changing nature of women's work.

Trafficked? Morals, Migration, and Filipina Hostesses in Tokyo's Nightlife Industry

This ethnographic study provides one of the only first-hand accounts of a group of people labeled by the U.S. Department of State as "severely trafficked persons." It examines the labor, migration and social incorporation of migrant Filipina hostesses in Tokyo.

Pitt, Mark- Economics

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Microcredit and Health Services Experiment in Bangladesh

This project implements a randomized micro-credit and health and family planning experiment in central Bangladesh in order to examine the relative impact of differentially combining access to micro-credit to finance self-employment with health and family planning services programs on a variety of health and family planning outcomes.

Children's Health and Nutrition, Adult Outcomes, and Intergenerational and Spatial Mobility

This project will assemble, collect and analyze multiple rounds of survey data from Bangladesh, providing family-based and individual panel information on the long-term health and productivity effects of childhood nutritional intakes, indoor air pollution, and health interventions over a 25-year span.

Prell, Warren- Geological Sciences

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My research seeks to understand the evolution of the Cenozoic climate-ocean system and especially the evolution of the Indian-Asian monsoon system and how it is forced by interaction between regional tectonic changes, orbital forcing, and inter-hemisphere ocean feedbacks. A major thrust in my ongoing collaborative grant with Z. Liu (U. of Wisconsin) is the generation of time dependant GCM simulations of past climate that enable us to directly compare paleoceanographic timeseries to climate model results. This collaboration has already yielded several publications.

My estuarine oceanography research seeks to understand the dynamics of carbon and nitrogen cycling in Narragansett Bay as related to the recent and past environmental history of the Bay. Our NOAA CHRP grant and Brown seed money support have produced exciting results, which were presented at the Estuarine Research Foundation 19th Biennial Conference in Providence in fall 2008. Topics included the Episodic Summer-Time Hypoxia in Narragansett Bay (Narragansett Bay CHRP) (Prell WL, Murray DW, Orchardo JM, Deacutis C, Saarman E), Grain Size Patterns and Elemental Composition of Surface Sediments from Narragansett Bay (Murray, D.W., Rincon, C.E., and Prell, W.L), and Benthic foraminifers as proxies for the spatial and temporal extent of hypoxia (Narragansett Bay CHRP) (Martin, April H, Prell, Warren L, Murray, David, Heggie, Keira). These initial studies have set the foundation for new proposals on eutrophication and environmental history of the Bay. To help develop the critical mass of researchers here at Brown, I have worked closely with Jeremy Rich, a new appointment in CES, to develop the seed money proposal "Developing an Interdisciplinary Research Team: Narragansett Bay as a Model System". The past year's research has generated the data for several publications, which are in preparation. The dynamics of carbon/Nitrogen cycling related to estuarine processes is a hot topic and one that Brown researchers can carve out a niche.

Putterman, Louis- Economics

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Economics experiment program at Brown with Talbot Page (voluntary contribution mechanism experiments); on industrial enterprise behavior and employment in China, with Xiao-Yuan Dong; economic growth, income distribution, and pre-industrial development, with comparative reference to Africa, Asia and Latin America, including work with Areendam Chanda; on economics, values and organization, and on economics and evolutionary psychology, with Avner Ben-Ner.

Roth, Harold- Religious Studies

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Harold D. Roth is Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies and the Director of the Contemplative Studies Initiative. Roth is a specialist in Early Chinese Religious Thought, Taoism, the History of East Asian Religions, the Comparative Study of Mysticism and a pioneer in the developing field of Contemplative Studies. His publications include five books, The Textual History of the Huai-nan Tzu (Association for Asian Studies, 1992), Original Tao: "Inward Training" and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism (Columbia University Press, 1999), Daoist Identity: Cosmology. Lineage, and Ritual (w/Livia Kohn) (University of Hawaii Press, 2002, A Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu: the Inner Chapters (Society for Asian and Comparative Philoosophy, 2003), and The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China, by Liu An, King of Huainan. (w/John S Major, Sarah Queen, and Andrew S. Meyer)(Columbia, 2009). He has also published more than three dozen articles on the early history and religious thought of the Taoist tradition and on the textual history and textual criticism of classical Chinese works, and on Contemplative Studies.

Roth's articles have been published in many leading academic journals, including the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Early China, Taoist Resources, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, China Review International, the Journal of Chinese Religions and the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, and he was written chapters or articles in such works as The Religions of China in Practice, the revised Sources of Chinese Tradition and Encyclopedia of Religion, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and the festschrift for Angus Graham.

In addition, Roth has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation For International Scholarly Exchange. He also was awarded a Wriston Fellowship for Teaching Excellence from Brown University. Roth has served his academic field in a variety of ways. First, he served on the Board of Directors of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions for a decade starting in 1993, during which time he has also served on the editorial boards of four international journals of Taoism and Early Chinese Studies. In addition to this he was the founder and Co-Organizer of the New England Symposium of Chinese Thought (1988-93), the organizer of a total of four academic panels at the Association for Asian Studies and American Oriental Society, and the Co-Organizer of the Second American-Japanese Conference on Taoist Studies (1998).

In 2008 and 2009 Roth gave named lectures at Pacific Lutheran University, The GTU at UC Berkeley, and at the ASIANetwork Conference.

He has also given papers at numerous conferences of academic organizations including ones in China, Japan, Holland, and Canada, and he has presented more than two dozen invited lectures at such institutions as Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Stanford, Dartmouth, McGill, and Tôyô University in Japan. At Brown he has been Concentration Advisor in the Departments of Religious Studies (1987-93, 2000-2001), and East Asian Studies (1991-98), and has sat on numerous department and university committees, including the Tenure, Promotions, and Appointments Committee that he will chair in the 2004-05 academic year. Roth is continuing his research on early Taoism, comparative mysticism, and on the critical preparation and analysis of early Chinese texts through a number of ongoing projects including a study and translation of the essays on "inner cultivation" in the Kuan Tzu.

As a pioneer and innovator in the field of Contemplative Studies, Roth has developed courses that combine traditional third-person study with critical first-person approaches.

Rutherford, Malcolm- Geological Sciences

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The focus of my research is the experimental, field, and theoretical investigations of the phase equilibria of calc-alkaline magmas. The purpose is to establish mineral stabilities and compositions in these magmas as a function of the fugacities of the volatile species, temperature, and the total pressure. This type of phase equilibrium is used to assess the conditions in pre-eruption subvolcanic magma systems at Mount St. Helens, and in the pre-eruption magma system at Mount Pinatubo, Philippines.

Sawada, Janine T. A.- East Asian Studies; Religious Studies

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Janine Sawada's early work dealt with the popularization of Zen Buddhist and Neo-Confucian ideas and practices among the working classes of Japan during the eighteenth century. More recently she researched groups that advocated various forms of personal cultivation in the early nineteenth century and the formation of political coalitions among the successors to these groups in the early Meiji period. Her work has encompassed the development in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of Shinto-type new religions, Neo-Confucian-inspired revival movements, divination systems, and Rinzai Zen networks. Professor Sawada is currently researching the religious and political context in which the Fujikō leader, Jikigyō Miroku, committed ritual suicide on Mt. Fuji. She is also beginning to explore the history of Nyoraikyō, the so-called first new religion of Japan.

Shea, M. Tracie- Psychiatry & Human Behavior

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Tracie Shea's current research is focused on personality disorders (PDs) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Her research in PDs includes a multi-site study of the longitudinal course of PDs and a study to examine emotional processing in borderline personality disorder. Her PTSD research includes adapting and pilot testing a treatment for PTSD-related anger problems and examination of the early longitudinal course and predictors of PTSD in

Short, Susan- Sociology

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Susan E. Short is Associate Professor of Sociology. She holds a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her current research, which draws on survey as well as ethnographic data, focuses on social welfare and its articulation with social change. Two on-going projects illustrate this interest. The first explores the implications of China's one-child policy for family life and individual well-being; the second examines family disruption and reorganization in the context of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, and associated implications for child well-being. In support of this research, Short has received grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Short's published work includes articles on fertility and reproductive health, household economic processes, women's work and child care, child well-being, and mixed methods research. Recent publications include ""Use of Maternal Health Services in Rural China"" Population Studies (2004) with Fengyu Zhang, and ""Second Births and the Second Shift: A Research Note on Gender Equity and Fertility"" (2004) Population and Development Review with Berna Miller Torr.

Areas of Interest: Social Demography, Families and Households, Reproductive Health, Stratification, Methods.

Smith, Kerry- History

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Kerry Smith did his undergraduate and graduate work at Harvard, and joined the Brown History Department in 1997. He is the author of A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization (Harvard University Press), a number of shorter works on the social history of interwar Japan, and a prize-winning article on Japan's first "official" museum of the war years. Professor Smith teaches the introductory survey on Japanese civilization, as well as courses on World War Two in the Pacific, modern Japan's social history, and the West's encounter with Japan. Prof. Smith is a Faculty Teaching Fellow at the Sheridan Center.

Smulyan, Susan- American Civilization

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Susan Smulyan is Professor, Department of American Civilization, a cultural historian of the United States in the twentieth century, and the author of two books: Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992) and Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). In addition, she has worked on three large web projects: "Whole Cloth: Discovering American History Through Science and Technology"; "Freedom Now!: An Archival Project of Tougaloo College and Brown University"; and "Perry Visits Japan." These websites exist at the intersection between faculty research and teaching. Professor Smulyan teaches courses in popular culture, advertising history, radio, digital scholarship, and American Studies methods, directing nine dissertations, and serving as a reader on twenty five others. She was selected by the American Studies Association as a delegate to the Japanese Association for American Studies and has presented papers in France, Italy, New Zealand, and Australia. In Spring 2009, she will be a Faculty International Scholar, School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Symonds, Patricia- Anthropology

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Patricia V. Symonds joined Brown in 1992 as a Visiting Professor of Anthropology. She is now Adjunct Associate Professor with an areal interest in Southeast Asia and a specialty in minority hill dwellers in Thailand. Her research with the Hmong refugee population in the United States led to further work with that population in the far north of Thailand and Laos. Symonds is a medical anthropologist and she has conducted research on HIV/AIDS in Thailand to discover how culture, political economy, and cosmology can effect populations exposed to this epidemic.

A Brown alumna (A.B., 1979: Ph.D., 1991), Symonds has taught in the Anthropology Department since 1992. She continues research both on the Hmong diaspora to the United States and the Hmong population in Thailand. Issues of Globalization and subsequent changes in life style are of particular interest. Her book Calling in the Soul: Gender and the Cycle of Life in a Hmong Village was a finalist for the Benda Prize in 2005.

Taylor, Elizabeth- English

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Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) S. Taylor received her B.A. in American Studies at Smith College, earned her PhD in American Literature from Brown, then taught at Harvard for five years before returning to Brown in 1994. She currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English at Brown. She teaches creative nonfiction -- literary journalism, historical narrative, memoir, radio nonfiction, and "Writing the Southeast Asian War." She has a particular interest in mentoring students interested in all forms of nonfiction writing. She and her family live in Providence.

Wang, Lingzhen- East Asian Studies

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Prof. Wang's current project is titled Gender Behind the Camera: Female Authorship and Visual Modernity in Twentieth Century China

Warren, Kay- Anthropology

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Kay Warren earned her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Princeton University in 1974 and served on the senior faculties of Princeton and Harvard before coming to Brown in 2003. She is the Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. '32 Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. She holds a joint appointment between the Anthropology Department and the Watson Institute for International Studies where she is a Professor (Research).

Warren's field reseach has taken her to Guatemala, Peru, Japan, Sweden, Norway, Colombia, and Washington, D.C. Her research involves multi-sited ethnographic studies of foreign aid and transnationalism, trafficking in persons, war and community responses to violence and peace processes, social movements and activist intellectuals, political minorities, indigenous rights, gender, religion, and the anthropology of multi-cultural democracies. She also works on documentary film and media issues. Her current research involves a multi-sited examination of major foreign aid donors and their production of knowledge about the developing world.

Warren's honors and awards over the last decade include an Honorary Doctorate and the Olof Palme Professorship at Stockholm University, a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in Japan and visiting scholar position at the University of Tokyo, a visiting professorship at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, an Abe Fellowship to Japan, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for work in Guatemala, a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, and a Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship for work in Guatemala.

She is currently working on two book projects: "Human Trafficking, Global Solutions, and Local Realities across the Pacific Rim" and "Remaking Transnationalism: Japan, Foreign Aid, and the Search for Global Solutions," co-edited with David Leheny.

Warren's other books include Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State, co-edited with Jean Jackson (2002); Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Life in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change, co-edited with Carol Greenhouse and Beth Mertz (2002); Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala (1998); The Violence Within: Cultural and Political Opposition in Divided Nations, edited (1993); Women of the Andes: Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns, coauthored with Susan Bourque (1981); and The Symbolism of Subordination: Indian Identity in a Guatemalan Town (1979).