History of China World History Spatial History Environmental History
2003, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley Department of History 1992, M.A. University of California at Berkeley Department of History 1989, B.S. Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, cum laude
2019-present, Secondary Appointment in the Information Culture and Data Stewardship Department, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh 2016-present, Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh 2004-2017, Founding Faculty, University of California at Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, History and World Cultures Department (2010-2017, Associ...
World History Environmental History Spatial History Methods The Silk Road The Medieval World World History of Rivers
Development and Modern History of China's Economy, Development Economics, Economics of Transition
B.A. in Economics, with honors in Economics and distinction in all subjects, Cornell University, 1965 M.A. in Economics, Harvard University, 1967 Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, 1972
Professor of Economics and History, UCIS Research Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Chinese and Japanese literature, business
Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1972, Chinese Language and Literature M.B.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1983, Marketing and Finance B.A., DePauw University, 1962, English and Spanish
(1) acquisition of the Chinese writing system, (2) Chinese syntax and functional grammar, especially in relation to acquisition, (3) corpus and technology in language acquisition and teaching, etc.
PhD, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (Major area: L2 linguistic analysis; Minor area: Pedagogy; English/East Asian Studies), University of Arizona MA, English Language/Linguistics, University of Arizona BA, English for International Legal Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Yu-Lien Lotus Liu
Modern China and East Asia in the World Economic and Business History; History of Capitalism, Industrialization, Technology Social Science History, Quantitative Analysis, Digital Humanities
2019 HarvardX Data Science Professional Certificate (expected in 2019) 2018 Ph.D., History, University of Texas at Austin 2012 M.Phil., Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 2010 B.E., Food Science & Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2018 University of Pittsburgh, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty Associate, Global Studies Center & Asian Studies Center
Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Intelligent and Social Information Access to Online Information, Academic Information Sharing in Big Data.
PhD in Artificial Intelligence: Division of Informatics (formerly Dept of Artificial Intelligence), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 12/95 – 7/01 Thesis Title: References to Graphical Objects in Intelligent Multimodal Interfaces Award: Overseas Research Studentship, Colin & Ethel Gordon Scholarship Supervisors: Dr Graeme Ritchie and Dr John Lee MSc in Computer Science: Dept. of Computer S...
Full Professor, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 9/17- present Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 9/10 – 8/17 Affiliate Professor, Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 9/04 -- present Assistant Professor, School of Information ...
Integration of Chinese language and culture through content-based instruction and technology-enhanced learning Chinese language pedagogy and performance assessment Print culture and mass media in 19th and 20th century China
1972 University of Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts, Ph.D. Major concentration: Early China; Minor: Eurasian Art and Archaeology 1965 University of Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts; MA 1963 Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA; BA
1993 University Center for International Studies, Research Professor, University of Pittsburgh 1987 Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of the History of Art and Architecture; Professor, Department of Anthropology 1979-1987 Associate Professor with Tenure, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts; 1986-Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology 1973-1979 Assistant Prof...
Ph.D., East Asian Literature, Cornell University M.A., Asian Studies, Cornell University M.S., Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University B.A., Economics, Peking University, China
Primary: Economics of Education Secondary: Education Policy, Comparative Education, Development Economics, Labor Economics, Behavioral Economics
2005 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City, New York, Ph.D., Economics and Education (2005) Awarded by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Joint study in Teachers College and the Department of Economics Advisor: Henry M. Levin M.Phil., Economics and Education (2005) 2001 UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, Buffalo, New York, M.A. (Distinction), Economics 2000 UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO, London, Ontario...
2010 – University of Pittsburgh: ^Department of Administrative and Policy Studies, School of Education Professor (Fall 2017 – ) Department Chairperson (Fall 2017 – Summer 2019) Associate Professor with tenure (Fall 2012 – Summer 17) Acting Department Chairperson (Spring 2016) Assistant Professor (Fall 2010 – Summer 12) ^Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Joint-Appointee Profess...
Dispute Resolution Employment Law Race and the Law
JD, University of Texas M.Ed, University of Texas AB, Stanford University
CFL pedagogy, Second language acquisition and Foreign language education.
MEd, 2009, University of Pennsylvania, TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) BA, 2006, Tunghai University, Foreign Languages and Literature
Chinese Language
MA, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, University of Iowa, 2016 BA, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 2014
1. Classical Chinese Lyric Poetry and Aesthetics 2. Chinese-Western Comparative Literature and Poetics 3. Traditional Chinese Thought Systems (Confucianism, Daoism, Chan Buddhism) 4. Traditional and Modern Chinese Literature 5. Cross-cultural Translation 6. Daoist aesthetics
PhD in Comparative Literature from Indiana University, winner of the Kinsley award for the best dissertation MA in Chinese Literature from Harvard University MA in English Literature from Boston College BA in English Literature from National Taiwan Normal University, Summa cum Laude, No. 1 in graduating class and throughout the four years at NTNU
PhD, Georgetown University, 1974, Chinese and Linguistics MA, Yale University, 1965, East Asian Studies, Chinese BA, University of Southern California, 1960, Economics
Borderlands in northeast Asia Chinese economic history, 1600-1850 Chinese historiography
Second Language Acquisition, Chinese Language Pedagogy and Linguistics
M.S., Indiana University at Bloomington, Chinese Language Pedagogy B.A., Shandong University, Foreign Language Education and Journalism
May 1998, New York University, Ph.D. Comparative Literature Diss: “Penelope’s Retreat: Women Re/right Authorship in Early Modern England and France:” A study of collaborative authors in a London Quaker circle and Paris salon, and their challenge in fiction to evolving eighteenth-century laws and ideologies of intellectual property May 1992, New York University, M.A. Comparative Literature May 1...
Jan 03-Present, University of Pittsburgh, English, Lecturer (Sept 2011-Present): Women and Literature, ESL Workshop in Composition, Freshman Seminar, Seminar in Composition Visiting Lecturer (Sept. 2007-Present) Adjunct (Jan 2003-April 2007), Freshman Seminar in Composition, ESL Workshop in Composition, Women and Literature, Literature and the Contemporary, Introduction to Literature, Written P...
PhD, Harvard University
the relationship and dynamics between cultural memory and historiography in anecdotal and historical narratives during the time period of 600-1300 digital humanities methods and use them to organize and analyze the large number of anecdotes and miscellanies
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chinese Literature MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Library and Information Studies MA, University of Rhode Island, English MS, University of Rhode Island, Computer Science MS & BS, Fudan University, China, Chemistry
History of China History of Central Eurasia (especially Manchu studies) Translation History World History Historical Writing and Theory
2000-2006 Princeton University, Ph.D. 2006, M.A. 2002 (Department of History and Program in History of Science) 1999-2000 Harvard University, M.A. 2000 (Department of History of Science) 1995-1999 Harvard University, B.A. 1999 magna cum laude with honors in Paleobiology (Special Concentration)
Sept 2018 - Mellon Chair in History, University of Pittsburgh July 2013 – June 2018 Associate Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia (UBC) Apr 2017 – June 2018 Canada Research Chair in Historical Pataphysics, UBC Apr 2012 – Apr 2017 Canada Research Chair in Early Modern Studies, UBC July 2009-July 2013 Assistant Professor, Department of History, UBC Sept 2007-July 2009...
Development, Comparative Institutions, Applied Microeconomics, Chinese economy
Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University (dissertation defended with distinction), 1988 M.A., Yale University (Russian and East European Studies), 1984 B.A., Haverford College (Russian Area Studies and Economics), 1981
2006- Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh 2009- Secondary appointment, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh 2018- Faculty affiliate, Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh Spring 2011&Spring 2012 Visiting Senior Faculty, Tsinghua University, Beijing Fall 2009 &2010 Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Environmental Politics and Governance; Politics of Nondemocratic Regimes; Social and Political Psychology
Harvard University Cambridge, MA Ph.D., Government; M.A., Government November 2016 University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI B.A., Political Science; B.A., Russian and Eastern European Studies May 2009
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh September 2016- Assistant Professor of Public Policy (courtesy appointment), University of Pittsburgh September 2017-
Premodern China
PhD University of California, Berkeley MA University of California, Davis BFA Pratt Institute
Chinese Language
Master of Law, University of Pittsburgh, 2006 Doctor of Judicial Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2011 Master of Translation, New York University, 2016