Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Studies, Chinese
Villanova University
Indo-TIbetan Buddhism Buddhist Philosophy
Chinese Literature and Culture, Women and Gender, Translation and Comparative Literature
BA and MA in English from Shanghai International Studies University PhD in Comparative Literature from University of South Carolina
Chinese History, Environmental History
B.A. from Grinnell College and Ph.D. from Cornell University
postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.
semantics and traditional ballads in Zhejiang.
Globalization, Development, Labor and Labor Movements, Political Economy, China and East Asian Studies
2010 Ph.D. in Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA 2005 M. A. in Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Certificate for concentration in Comparative Sociology and International Development 2003 M. A. with distinction in Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Certificate for Concentration in Comparative Labor Studies & Research Methods 2002 B.A. in Soc...
2017- Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Temple University 2019- Affiliated faculty in Global Studies, Temple University 2011-2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Temple University 2010-2011 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology; Faculty Fellow, East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University 2009-2010 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Research Center for Chinese Polit...
Buddhist Studies Digital Humanities
MA (Sinology) and Dr.phil (History of Religions) from Würzburg University MA (Communication Studies) from Nagoya Universit
Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Temple University in Philadelphia Academic Director of the Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio, to coordinate support for emerging digital scholarship technologies, such as Digital Humanities & Arts methods, 3D printing, or the use of VR-environments.
U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, California. Ph.D., 2008 (Political Science). Master of Arts, 2001 (Political Science) Doctoral Dissertation: “China’s New Regulatory State: The Government’s Bifurcated Strategy Toward Foreign Investment.” Committee: Steven K. Vogel (Chair), Kevin J. O’Brien, Kiren A. Chaudhry, and Thomas B. Gold. Dissertation nominated for American Political Science Association’s Gabrie...
Associate Professor (with tenure), Political Science, Temple University, 2016-. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Temple University, 2009-2016. Visiting Professorship, Graduate School of Finance and Asia Pacific Center, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, 2014 Visiting Scholar, Institute of International Studies, U.C. Berkeley, 2013-2014; Faculty Residential Research Fellow, I...
Sociocultural Anthropology, Medical/ Cultural Pluralism, Modern China, Gender & Power
B.A. in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in 1979 Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993.