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Alex Jong-Seok Lee

美国 Rice University Annette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Asian Studies Affiliated Faculty Executive Committee Advisory Board Current Students Rice University on Facebook Rice University on Twitter Rice University on Instagram Rice University on Flickr Chao Center for Asian Studies


Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Labor Migration, Care Ethics, Transnational Race and Ethnic Studies, Performance Studies, Security, and Technology.


2018 PhD, Anthropology, Minor in Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Dissertation Committee Chair: Dr. Ellen Moodie (Former Committee Chair: Dr. Nancy Abelmann-deceased) Dissertation: “Serving to Secure ‘Global Korea’: Gender, Mobility, and Flight Attendant Labor Migrants.” 2003 BA, Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego.


2019- Annette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Asian Studies, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University (Fall-Spring). 2018-2019 Academy of Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Korean Studies, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University (Fall-Spring).

陈士惠Shih-Hui Chen

美国 Rice University Professor Composition and Theory


Diploma (1982), National Academy for the Arts; M.M. (1985), Northern Illinois University; D. M. A. (1993) Boston University

Shih-shan Susan Huang

美国 Rice University Associate Professor of Art History Department of Art History


Chinese art; Daoist and Buddhist visual culture; Chinese painting (especially Song and Yuan periods); visual cultures of Middle Period China; cross-cultural study; book and print culture; East and West


Ph.D. Yale University M.A. National Taiwan University B.A. National Taiwan University

Anne C. Klein

美国 Rice University Professor Department of Religious Studies


Tibetan Buddhist and Indian epistemology. Tibetan texts and language


Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1981 M.A. in Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, l971 B.A. Cum Laude with Highest Honors in English, State University of New York at Binghamton (Harpur College) l969


Rice Appointments: 1989 Assistant Professor 1991 Associate Professor with tenure 1996 Full Professor 1995-1998 Department Chair 1998 -present Professor, Religious Studies Rice University 1995-1998 Professor and Chair, Religious Studies, Rice University 1991- 1994 Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Rice University 1989-1991 Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Rice University 1986-89 Act...

Eric Huntington

美国 Rice University Annette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Asian Studies Chao Center for Asian Studies


Bring visual and material approaches to topics that have typically been considered textually, such as religious cosmology, meditation, ontology, and experience. This reflects a more general interest in relationships between art and text that leads me also to address issues of narrative, identity, ritual performance, and material culture. More broadly, also consider how these topics touch on con...


2013 Ph.D. University of Chicago. Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations 2009 M.A. University of Chicago. Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations 2007 M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School. Focus on Buddhism 2005 M.F.A. Ohio State University. Painting and Drawing 2003 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design. Illustration 2000 B.A. with General Honors, University of Chicago. P...


2019–Present Rice University. Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow in the Chao Center for Asian Studies 2017–2019 Stanford University. Postdoctoral Fellow in the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies with an appointment as Lecturer in Religious Studies 2014–2017 Princeton University. Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts with an appointment as Lecturer in Religion 2013–2014 Was...


Buddhism, Asian religions, Tantra, visual and material culture, literature and biography, gender and identity, philosophy, ritual theory and practice, cosmology, sacred space, pilgrimage and sacred geography

Steven W. Lewis

美国 Rice University Associate Director Chao Center for Asian Studies


1988-1996 Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Political Science; Dissertation: “Testing Theories of Institutional Change and Property Rights: Privatization Experiments and Economic Development Zones in China,” December 1996. 1989 Middlebury College Chinese Summer Language Program, 1989; Fifth-Year Course Certificate. 1982-1985 Ohio University, cum laude, Scripps School of Journali...


C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, from 2010 (research fellow since 1997). Professor in the Practice in Humanities, Rice University, from 2004; in addition to being faculty in Asian Studies I am faculty in the Politics, Law and Social Thought program and the Master of Global Affairs program in the School of Social Sciences. As...

Nanxiu Qian

美国 Rice University Associate Professor of Chinese Literature School of Humanities


MA in Classical Chinese Literature, Nanjing University, 1982; Ph.D. in Literature, Yale, 1994.


2002-present: Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, Rice. 2004-2006: President of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, an international organization 1982-1987: Assistant Professor of Classical Chinese Literature, Nanjing University.

Richard J. Smith

美国 Rice University Research Professor Department of History


Modern Chinese history and traditional Chinese culture. Other academic interests include: early Chinese history and culture; Japanese history and culture; comparative history; cultural anthropology.


B.A., University of California, Davis (Political Science, 1966) M.A., University of California, Davis (History, 1968) Ph.D., University of California, Davis (History, 1972). Dissertation adviser: Professor Kwang-Ching Liu


George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities Emeritus; Research Professor, Chao Center for Asian Studies; Director of Asian and Global Outreach (Center for Education); James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy Scholar; Co-Founder of and Co-Adviser for the Baker Institute’s Transnational China Project (http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~tnchina/) Visiting Scholar, Center for Asian Studies, University of...

Songying Fang

美国 Rice University Associate Professor Dept of Political Science


International organizations, international conflict, applied game-theoretic modeling, and US-China relations.


Ph.D. Political Science University of Rochester, 2006 M.A. Economics Binghamton University, SUNY, 2000 M.A. Economics Renmin University of China, 1996 B.S. Engineering University of Science and Technology Beijing, 1990


Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Rice University, 2015 - Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Rice University, 2009 - 2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, 2005 - 2009

Tani Barlow

美国 Rice University George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities History


Modern Chinese Intellectual History Feminist Theory Gender and Social Science


UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, PhD History 1985, MA History 1979 SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, CA. BA History & Chinese Language (Dual Degree) 1975


RICE UNIVERSITY – Houston, TX: History, George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities 2017-; History, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Studies 2008-2017; Inaugural Director, Chao Center for Asian Studies 2008-2013 UNIVERSITY OFWASHINGTON – Seattle,WA: Graduate Faculty Appointment 2008-19; History, Affiliated Doctoral Professor 2008-17; History, Professor 2004-2008; Women Studies,...

Anne Shen Chao

美国 Rice University Adjunct Lecturer Humanities


B. A., Wellesley College, 1973. (Chinese Studies) M.A., PhD., Rice University, 2009. (Modern Chinese History)


Adjunct Lecturer in the Humanities, Rice University Manager of the Houston Asian American Archive (HAAA), Rice University

Elaine Howard Ecklund

美国 Rice University Herbert S. Autrey Chair Social Sciences


Religion, science, immigration, and culture


2001-2004 Ph.D., Sociology, Cornell University, August, 2004. 2001-2002 Visiting Graduate Student Fellow, Princeton University. 1998-2001 MA, Sociology, Cornell University, January, 2001. 1991-1995 BS, Human Development, Cornell University, May, 1995.


2013-Present Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences, Rice University. 2013-Present Professor, Department of Sociology, Rice University. 2011-2013 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Rice University. 2008-2011 Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, Rice University. 2006-2008 Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, University at Buffalo, SUNY. 2004-...

卓嘉健Ka-Kin Cheuk

美国 Rice University Annette and Hugh Gragg Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Asian Studies Chao Center for Asian Studies


University of Oxford, UK. DPhil, Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2016 (viva voce pass without correction). The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. MPhil, Anthropology, 2009; BSSc (Honours, First Class), Anthropology, 2006


Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, U.S. Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Asian Studies, from January 2019 Global Interactions, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Grant-Writing Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2018 - December 2018 Center for Global Asia, New York University Shanghai, China. Postdoctoral Fellow, Global Asia, December 2017 - August 2018 Institute for Area Studies, ...

Liang Fu

美国 Rice University Lecturer in Chinese Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication, School of Humanities


Language pedagogy, curriculum design, English-Chinese Translation, and Business Chinese


Master of Arts in Foreign Languages Applied Linguistics from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China Master of Business Administration from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Meng Yeh

美国 Rice University Teaching Professor Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication, School of Humanities


Language pedagogy, assessment, curriculum design, L2 literacy development and second language acquisition


Ph.D. in Linguistics and Master in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin


Associate Professor at Trinity University