Political behavior of development; political economy of development; state-society relations; governance; corruption; accountability; political participation; citizen engagement; Chinese politics; African politics.
Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 2005 graduate of Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Chinese Diaspora Studies; Mixed-Race Studies; Chinese Frontier Studies; Asian American Studies
Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University
Chinese culture, Chinese migration history, Asian American history, East Asian culture, and women’s and gender studies.
advertising and marketing, civic media and communication, social media action research, popular culture, and nonprofit technology, with an area focus on the People’s Republic of China.
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1985 M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, 1975 B.A. Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, 1972
2012-present, Joint appointment, Global Studies and Languages; Comparative Media Studies/Writing, MIT 2011-2013, Director, Institute of Civic Communication, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. 2013-2016 & 2002-2005, Visiting Professor, Institute of Knowledge Management, the Chinese University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, China 2005-2008, Head, Foreign Languages and Literatur...
the historical and descriptive aspects of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages, and foreign language learning and teaching
linguistics (BA 1969) at Columbia College; studied Chinese in Taiwan and then took short-term teaching positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist College. Attended graduate school at UC Berkeley; obtained an MA (1976) and PhD (1982) in linguistics, completing a dissertation on the Burmese language.
linguistics and/or East and Southeast Asian languages at UC Berkeley (1983), California State University at Fresno (1983-5), Cornell University (1985-86 and 87-97) and MIT (from 1997). Fulbright Fellow, Singapore, 1986-87
International relations; international security; military strategy; military doctrine; nuclear weapons; nuclear strategy; territorial disputes; maritime disputes; China; East Asia.
Ph.D. Stanford University, Political Science, 2004 M.Sc. London School of Economics, International Relations, with Distinction, 1996 M.A. University of Oxford (New College), Philosophy, Politics and Economics, 1995 B.A. Middlebury College, History, summa cum laude, 1993
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, 2018– Director, Security Studies Program, 2019– Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Acting Director, Center for International Studies, 2017–2018 Associate Professor of Political Science (with tenure), 2011–2018 Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair, 2008–2011 Associate Professor of Political S...
late imperial and modern China law, science, environment, and religion interacted in China from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries
A.B. Harvard College, 2010 M.A. Columbia University, 2011 Ph.D. Columbia University, 2017
pre-modern and modern Chinese history as well as the environmental history of China.
Chinese language pedagogy, cross-cultural communications, teacher training and evaluation, second language acquisition (1) how are memories and stories constructed in C2? (2) If there is a “learning cycle” for learners, should there be a corresponding “instructional cycle” for teachers? (3) How to make the best use of class time by attending to the ACT/FACT portions over the course of instructi...
2013 Ph.D. Ohio State University 2001 M.Phil. Taiwan Normal University 1998 B.A. Tsing Hua University
pragmatics, teaching methodology, curriculum design Chinese pragmatics, error analysis on Chinese pronunciation and Chinese language pedagogy for beginning learners
2009 M.A. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2008 B.A. Xi'an Foreign Languages University
Language pedagogy; Framework for language teaching; Cross-cultural communication
1993 M.A. Harvard University 1990 B.A. National Taiwan University
taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Simmons College and Brookline High School, for a total of almost 24 years in the field
Language pedagogy; Cultural teaching; Curriculum design
2013 M.A. Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China 2010 B.A. Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China Beijing Language and Culture University with a master's degree in applied Chinese linguistics with a focus on pedagogy for Chinese as a second language
1993 M.A. Heidelberg University, Ohio 1983 B.A. Tianjin Normal University, China
the use of multi-media in the teaching and learning of Chinese language, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, an oral history project of the Cultural Revolution in China, and an oral history project of Generations in Change