Asian American Studies Chinese Studies
Health policy (Global Health and HIV/AIDS); social policy; demography demography, contemporary Chinese society and global health
Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy Director of the Duke University Population Research Institute (DUPRI) Director of the Duke Population Research Center Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology Research Professor of Global Health
Chinese art, theory & criticism Chinese Buddhist art and architecture; visual theory; colonial knowledge formation
Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley 1989 M.A., University of California - Berkeley 1984 B.A., University of California - Berkeley 1981
China (1) Socioeconomic, behavior, environmental and genetic determinants of healthy aging and healthy longevity; (2) Factors related to elderly disability and mental health; (3) Methods of family households and elderly living arrangements forecasting/analysis and their applications in health services and socioeconomic planning, and market studies; (4) Policy analysis in population aging, socia...
Ph.D., Free University of Brussels (Belgium), 1986
Professor in Medicine Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Center for Population Health & Aging Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development
Philosophy; ethical theory, moral psychology, comparative ethics; Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist comparative philosophy
Ph.D., Princeton University 1977 B.A., Macalester College 1971
Tibetan Buddhism; Buddhism and modernity; modern Tibetan language poetry; ethnic minority identity in China Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke Non-dual awareness and poetics Influence of Buddhism on 20th Century American Poetry Women's Religious Experience & Poetics
Ph.D., University of Virginia 2004
Lecturing Fellow of Religion, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017 Instructor of the Religious Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016 - 2017 Visiting Instructor in the Department of Religious Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2016 Visiting Instructor in the Department of Religious Studies, Religious Studies, ...
Global strategy, cross border technology management, R&D strategy Research: East Asian innovation and R&D systems; China business and technology strategy.
Political science; contemporary authoritarianism; bureaucracy; corruption; information; representation; state management of social media
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1989
Vor Broker Family Distinguished Professor, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016 Professor in the Department of Political Science, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
Chinese and Asian history; historical sociology; historical philosophy and historiography; nationalism; regionalism and environment
Oscar L. Tang Family Distinguished Professor of East Asian Studies, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016 Professor in the Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016 Scholar in Residence in the Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
Critical Race Theory, Feminisms Gender and Sexuality, Film and New Media, Globalization and Postcoloniality, Literary and Cultural Studies, Modernism and Modernity Chinese and Asian history; historical sociology; historical philosophy and historiography; nationalism; regionalism and environment
Ph.D., Stanford University 1986 M.A., Stanford University 1982 B.A., University of Hong Kong (China) 1979
Chinese history; comparative Asian history; Asian-American history; rural economic development; migration; theories of race and ethnicity
Ph.D., University of California - Los Angeles 1984
Associate Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999 Assistant Professor, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993 - 1999
Second language acquisition theories and methodologies, teaching with mulimedia technology, Chinese classical language and literature, heritage language learning
M.A., University of Massachusets, Boston 2005
Senior Lecturer of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 Lecturer in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern S, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2018 Instructor, Non Tenure Track in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Scien...
Second language acquisition and reading; biliteracy development and teaching; learning Chinese as a foreign, second or heritage language
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University 2013
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020 Lecturer in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2020
Innovation; productivity; exporting and industry dynamics, with a special focus on East Asian emerging economies China, Taiwan, Korea
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University 2007
Japanese and Chinese linguistics; L2 acquisition of Japanese and Chinese; experimental approaches in syntax and semantics research
Ph.D., University of Hawaii, Manoa 2019 M.A., University of Hawaii, Manoa 2012
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin 1987
Professor of Political Science, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 Associate Professor with Tenure, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1994 - 2002 Acting Director, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1995 - 1996 Assistant Professor, Political Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1988 - 1993
Film historiography, film theory, sound studies, postcolonial theory and theories of culture and globalization; film and other media of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China
Ph.D., University of California - Berkeley 2004 M.A., San Francisco State University 1995 B.A., Fu Jen Catholic University (Taiwan) 1991
Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 Director of the Program in Arts of the Moving Image, Art of the Moving Image, Literature 2013 - 2018 Assistant Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004 - 2011
Aesthetics; literary theory; cultural studies; Marxism; popular culture; Chinese studies
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison 1989 M.A., University of Wisconsin - Madison 1984 B.A., Nanjing University (China) 1982
Professor of Asian and African Languages and Literature, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004 Research Professor in Asian and African Languages and Literature, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003
Economic sociology Inequality Immigration Religion Organizations Chinese economic transformation Entrepreneurship
Ph.D., Sociology, Cornell University, 1995-97 M.A., Sociology, Cornell University, 1993-95 M.A., Economics, University of Oklahoma, 1990-91 A.B., magna cum laude, With Distinction, Duke University, 1986-1989
2018-present Professor, Department of Sociology and Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University Faculty Affiliate of the Duke Network Analysis Center, the Asian Pacific Studies Institute, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences, and the Duke Population Research Institute 2019-present Co-Director, PROVE Data Replication Program, iiD (information initia...
social networks and social capital, the life stress process (especially social support as resources), social stratification and mobility, and Chinese societies.
Ph.D., Michigan State University 1966 M.A., Syracuse University 1963 B.A., Tunghai University (Taiwan) 1960
Oscar L. Tang Family Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 Professor with Tenure, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1990 - 2011 Director of the Asian and Pacific Studies Institute, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & ...
Twentieth-century China; history of medicine in China; social history of war; women's and gender histories
Ph.D., University of California - Irvine 2012
Assistant Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 Assistant Professor in the Program of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 Affiliate, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2015 Scholar In Residence in the Department of History, H...
Cultural politics of ethnicity; social and political theory; conservation politics; development and environmentalism
Ph.D., University of Washington 1994 M.A., University of Washington 1990 B.A., Evergreen State College 1985
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2001 Affiliate, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2009 Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016 - 2017 Director of the Global...
China's modern encounter with Christianity; Protestantism and Chinese modernity; Christianity and China's minority peoples
B.A. (Fujian Normal University) M.A. (Fujian Normal University) D.A. (State University of New York at Albany)
Contemporary Chinese religious life; development of Global Confucianisms in the 21st century; comparative ritual theory; theory and methodology underlying the social scientific study of religion
Ph.D., Princeton University 2008 M.A., Princeton University 2001
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020
Economic sociology; organizational analysis; comparative historical sociology; political economy; Japanese society; Chinese society; East Asian capitalism
Ph.D., Princeton University 1994
Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003 Associate Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2003 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1994 - 2000 Lecturer, University, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993
Visual culture; gender studies; popular culture; theories of corporeality; diaspora studies Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image issues of gender and visuality, corporeality and infection, and nationalism and diaspora studies.
Ph.D., Columbia University 2000 B.A., Cornell University 1995
Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2016 Professor in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017 - 2020 Associate Professor of Women Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 - 2017 Associate Profe...
Chinese literature; film and visual studies; popular culture (anime/manga, fandoms, media technologies); diaspora theory/history, especially global Chinatowns
Sociolinguistics; language policy; political sociology Taiwan
Ph.D., University of Essex (UK) 2009
Classical and contemporary Chinese music in solo, chamber and orchestral formats; mutual influence of East and West culture and heritage
Master of Music with Distinction, Indiana University, 1983 Recipient - Performer's Certificate School of Music, Indiana University, 1983 Special Program Iowa State University, 1981 Diploma Central School of Music, Beijing, China, 1970
Chinese language pedagogy; Chinese film studies; language acquisition foreign language curriculum development, study abroad education, curriculum articulation, intercultural communicative competence, Service-Learning and community-based language learning, and Chinese for specific purposes.
M.A., University of Iowa 1993 M.A., University of Iowa 1992 B.A., University of Iowa 1989
Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014 Associate Professor of the Practice of Chinese, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003 - 2014 Assistant Professor of the Practice of Chinese, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1996 - 2003 Le...
Modern Japanese literature; imperialism, colonial/postcolonial theories; globalization and cultural formation; popular culture; transnationalism in Asia and America colonial discourse studies, postcolonial theory, Japanese mass culture, and theories of globalization and regionalism.
Ph.D., University of California - San Diego 1994 M.A., University of California - Los Angeles 1988 B.A., Occidental College 1985
Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2020 Director of the International Comparative Studies Program, International Comparative Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2001 - 2020 Inte...