Program Faculty from Previous Semesters
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Spring 2007 Program Faculty
Dong Chen
Assistant Professor of Economics, Peking University
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
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.
Anne Dunlop
Assistant Professor in History of Art and in Renaissance Studies, Yale University
Anne Dunlop was born in Montreal. She is Assistant Professor in History of Art and in Renaissance Studies, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in History of Art. Her graduate work was done at the University of British Columbia, Universite Lumiere-Lyon II, and the University of Warwick. She is the co-editor of Art and the Augustinian Order in Early-Renaissance Italy, (Ashgate, 2006), and is completing a book called Secular Frescoes and the Emergence of Renaissance Art.
Pierre Landry
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Pierre Landry is Assistant Professor of political science at Yale University (since 2001) and the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the International Studies major. He is a member of the International Affairs Council and the Council on East Asian Studies at the MacMillan Center. Pierre Landry received his undergraduate degree in economics and public law at the Paris Institute for Political Studies and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2000. He studied in China in Dalian, at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and has been a research fellow with the Research Center for Contemporary China at Peking University since 1997. His research interests focus on Chinese politics, comparative local government, and quantitative comparative political analysis. He is the author of a book Controlling Decentralization: The Party and Local Elites in Post-Deng China (forthcoming at Cambridge University Press) as well as articles on various aspects of local governance and survey research methodology.
Charles Laughlin
Former Joint Program Resident Director, Yale University
Charles A. Laughlin received his B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota in 1988, and went on to complete a Ph.D. in Chinese Literature at Columbia University in 1996. Since then, he has taught at Yale University as Associate Professor of Chinese Literature. Laughlin's first book, Chinese Reportage: The Aesthetics of Historical Experience, was published by Duke University Press in 2002, with a Chinese translation forthcoming. He is currently completing a book on the modern Chinese essay entitled The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity.
T.P. Ma
Raymond J. Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics, Yale University
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.
Xuan Ya
Lecturer, International College for Chinese Language Studies, Peking University
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
Fall 2006 Program Faculty
Jean-Christophe Agnew
Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University
Jean-Christophe Agnew received his B.A. in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs at Princeton University and his Ph.D. in history in 1978 from Harvard University. Since then he has taught at Yale, where he is Professor of American Studies and History. He is the author of Worlds Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750 (Cambridge,1986) and numerous articles on market and consumer culture, most recently, "The Give and Take of Consumer Culture," in Commodifying Everything, Susan Strasser, ed. (Routledge, 2003) and "Advertisements for Ourselves: Being and Time in a Promotional Economy," in Cultures and Commerce, Elspeth Brown and Marina Moskowitz, eds. (Palgrave, 2006). He also co-edited, with Roy Rosenzweig, the Companion to Post-1945 America (Blackwell, 2002).
Dong Chen
Assistant Professor of Economics, Peking University
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.
Katerina Clark
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Yale University
Katerina Clark received her B.A. from Melbourne University and her Ph.D. from Yale University. She has taught at Yale since 1986, in the Departments of Comparative Literature, and Slavic Languages and Literatures, and in the Film Studies Program. She has published The Soviet Novel: History As Ritual, Mikhail Bakhtin (with Michael Holquist) and Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution, 1913-1931. She is currently working on three books: Culture and Soviet Power: A History in Documents (1917-1953) (with Evgeny Dobrenko), Europe Without Borders? Avant-Garde Visions of a Trans-National Culture, 1922-1933, and Moscow, The Fourth Rome. A Cultural History, 1930-1941.
Xing Wang Deng, Yale University
Professor of Department of Molecular, Cell and Development Biology
Xing Wang Deng received his Ph.D. in plant biology from the University of California at Berkeley. His research centers on plant genetics and agrobiotechnology. 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.
Charles Laughlin
Former Joint Program Resident Director, Yale University
Charles A. Laughlin received his B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota in 1988, and went on to complete a Ph.D. in Chinese Literature at Columbia University in 1996. Since then, he has taught at Yale University as Associate Professor of Chinese Literature. Laughlin's first book, Chinese Reportage: The Aesthetics of Historical Experience, was published by Duke University Press in 2002, with a Chinese translation forthcoming. He is currently completing a book on the modern Chinese essay entitled The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity.
Zhisheng Li
Associate Professor, History Department, Peking University
Li Zhisheng received her B.A., M.A and Ph.D. in Chinese History from Peking University in 1984, 1987 and 1999. Since then, she has taught at Peking University as Lecturer and Associate Professor of Chinese History. In 1999, she was invited by the Department of Asian Studies of Cornell University to give two courses, Classical Chinese Language and Traditional Culture and the History of Chinese Women. Published articles include On the Theory of the Women in the Tang and Its Influence: From Aesthetic Standards and Political Policy, On the Ideal Women in the Tang: From Appearance, Virtue and Education, Tuo-zhi and Mi-li: Ideal Image of Women in the Tang Dynasty and Women as Social Adults from Qin-Han to Sui-Tang. Her main translation is Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China by Dorothy Ko. She is currently completing a book on marriage in Tang Dynasty entitled The Marriage of Tang Dynasty from a Gender Perspective.
T.P. Ma
Raymond J. Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics, Yale University
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.
Xuan Ya
Lecturer, International College for Chinese Language Studies, Peking University
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.