Fall 2008 Program Faculty
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The faculty listed below are some of the professors scheduled to teach in the Peking University - Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program during the Fall 2008 semester.
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Dong Chen
Assistant Professor of Economics, Peking University
ECON 120: "Introduction to Chinese Economy"
Professor Dong received his BA in Economics from Chongquing University, and his MA in Economics from the University of Victoria in Canada. He recently received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at Peking University. He specializes in industrial organization, applied econometrics, and Chinese economy.
Xing Wang Deng
Professor of Department of Molecular, Cell and Development Biology, Yale University
MCDB 470: "Tutorial, Peking-Yale Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology"
MCDB 475: "Directed Research, Peking-Yale Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology"
Xing Wang Deng received his Ph.D. in plant biology from the University of California at Berkeley. His research centers on plant genetics and agro-biotechnology. He is an author of over 100 research papers and Director of Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology. Professor Deng is a recipient of the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award and the Kumho Science International Award. He also has served as advisory board member for several professional organizations and associate editor for multiple scientific journals.
Valerie Hansen
Professor of History, Yale University
HIST 308a: "Beijing and China, 900-2006"
HIST 311A: "The History of Chinese Religions"
Valerie Hansen teaches Chinese and world history at Yale. After two years studying Mandarin in Taiwan, she did her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania and spent an additional two years in Kyoto, Japan, doing dissertation research. Now in her eighteenth year at Yale, she and her family have spent five semesters on leave in China, where she is particularly interested in tracking archeological discoveries and visiting new sites and museums.
T.P. Ma
Raymond J. Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics, Yale University
EENG 235a and 236b: "Special Projects, Beida-Yale Joint Research Center for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology"
T.P. Ma is Raymond J. Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and professor of Applied Physics at Yale University, where he has been a faculty member since 1977. He is currently serving as Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Yale Center for Microelectronics. He is also a Co-Director of the Peking-Yale Joint Research Center for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology. His research and teaching at Yale have focused on various aspects of semiconductor science and technology. He holds Honorary Professorships at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, and Tianjin University, and Honorary Guest Professorship at Peking University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAE), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a life member of the American Physical Society, among numerous memberships of other professional organizations.
Bruce Wexler
Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Yale University
CGSC 150: “Brain and Culture”
CGSC 409: “Language and the Brain”
Dr. Wexler received his BA degree Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College in 1969 with a concentration in Government, completed medical training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, an internship in Medicine at Bronx Municipal Medical Center, and Psychiatry training at Yale. He also studied psychiatry at Anna Freud’s clinic in Hampstead and neurology at the Institute of Neurology, Queen’s Square, London. He has published over 90 scientific research papers, serves on the editorial boards of professional journals and is a member of expert panels and grant review committees for the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Wexler’s book “Brain and Culture; Neurobiology, Ideology and Social Change” presents new ideas about the relationship between people and their social and cultural environments (2006). In “Brain and Culture,” Professor Wexler describes how these relationships change as a result of changes in neuroplasticity during the lifespan. He reviews extensive research in neurobiology, psychology and anthropology. Based on ideas in this book, Professor Wexler and Ambassador Andrew Young founded the non-profit organization A Different Future in an effort to reclaim the public idea space from extremists with regard to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Professor Wexler serves as a facilitator for ongoing discussions among the Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious leadership of the Israeli and Palestinian communities.
Laura Wexler
Professor of American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, Yale University
AMST 449/WGSS 451: "Photography and Memory: Public and Private Lives"
AMST 482/WGSS 340: "History of U.S. Feminist Thought"
Laura Wexler, co-Principle Investigator of the Women, Religion and Globalization project, has taught at Amherst College, Trinity College, Wesleyan University and Yale University. She was appointed Professor of American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Yale in 2002. She served as Chair of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program from 2003-2007. She is the author of Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. Imperialism (University of North Carolina Press, 2000) and Pregnant Pictures (Routledge, 2000), co-authored with Sandra Matthews. Tender Violence was awarded the 2001 annual Joan Kelley Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association for the best book in women’s history and/or feminist theory. She also co-edited, along with Laura Frost, Amy Hungerford and John MacKay, the volume Interpretation and the Holocaust, a special issue of the Yale Journal of Criticism. Professor Wexler’s many other publications include a recent essay entitled “’Laughing Ben’” on ‘The Old Plantation’,” in Photography and Race Forum, edited by Elizabeth Abel and Leigh Raiford, in English Language Notes 44.2 (Fall/Winter 2006); and a recent chapter entitled “The Fair Ensemble: Kate Chopin in St. Louis in 1904,” in Haunted by Empire; Geographies of Intimacy in North American History, edited by Ann Laura Stoler (Duke University Press, 2006). Her current research centers on visual representations of the gendered politics of race in the United States and includes forthcoming studies of the writer Kate Chopin and the photographers Diane Arbus and Roman Vishniac. She co-founded, and for the past eight years has directed, the Photographic Memory Workshop at Yale. She has served on the editorial boards of American Quarterly, Genders, and the Yale Journal of Criticism. She is a member of the Steering Committee and of the Advisory Council of the Women Faculty Forum, and serves on the American Studies, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, International Affairs, and Judaic Studies Councils. She also is a member of the Executive Boards of the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale and the Muriel Gardiner Society for Psychoanalysis and the Humanities. She completed her undergraduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College and holds M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University.
Xuan Ya
Lecturer, International College for Chinese Language Studies, Peking University
CHNS 110a: "Elementary Modern Chinese"
CHNS 130a: "Intermediate Modern Chinese"
CHNS 150a: "Advanced Modern Chinese I"
Xuan Ya received two Masters of Art; one in Clinical Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and one in Modern Chinese Literature at Peking University. She did her undergraduate work in Chinese language and literature at Shandong University. In addition to her nearly twenty years of teaching Chinese as a foreign language at Peking University, she has also taught Chinese at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, and at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. She spent two months at Yale observing all levels of Chinese language classes.
Qingmin Zhang
Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations, Peking University
IS 365/PLSC 196: “Foreign Policy Analysis”
Qingmin Zhang is Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations at the School of International Studies, Peking University. He previously taught at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing and at China Foreign Affairs University and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs from 2004-2005. His teaching and research interests include Chinese Foreign Policy, Diplomatic Studies, Theory of Foreign Policy Analysis, and U.S. Foreign Policy. He is the author of U.S. Arms Sales Policy toward Taiwan: A Decision-Making Perspective (2006), China’s Foreign Relations (2003), many academic journal articles, and coeditor and contributor to several other books. He received his doctorate from China Foreign Affairs University and his Masters Degree from Brigham Young University in Utah, USA.
