2007-2008 Directory of Asian Studies Faculty

SYBIL THORNTON
Associate Professor of History
Department of History, ASU-PO BOX 872501, Tempe, AZ 85287-2501
Tel: 480-965-4472; Dept: 480-965-5778; Fax: 480-965-0310; Office: Coor 4532
E-mail: sybil.thornton@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/ (Dept. page)

Ph.D.: University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Country/Region: Japan
Teaching: pre-modern Japanese history, Asian civilization, film, and oral narrative
Research: Jishuh (Japanese Buddhism, monasticism), cinema, Japanese epic (traditional oral-derived narrative), pedagogy of film in the classroom
Publications: The Japanese Period Film, A Critical Analysis (McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, in press).
"Kohnodai senki: Traditional Narrative and Warrior Ideology in Sixteenth-Century Japan," Oral Tradition 15, no. 2 (2000).
" The Tale of [The Battle of] Ohtoh: The Japanese Epic and Religious Propaganda Traditions from the Ippen School of Pure Land Buddhism," in Religions of Japan in Practice, edited by George Tanabe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
" Buddhist Chaplains in the Field of Battle," in Buddhism in Practice, edited by Donald Lopez (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).
" The Shinkokugeki and the Zenshinza: Western Representational Realism and the Japanese Period Piece," Asian Cinema 7, no. 2 (Winter 1995).

HOYT C. TILLMAN
Professor of History
Department of History, ASU-PO BOX 874302, Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
Tel: 480-965-3025; Dept: 480-965-5778; Fax: 480-965-0310; Office: Coor 4462
E-mail: hoyt.tillman@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/ (Dept. page)

Ph.D.: Harvard University
Country/Region: China
Teaching: Chinese Cultural History, History of Chinese Medicine, Interpreting China's Classics, China (to 1644), Chinese Thought, Confucianism, Asian Civilizations (to 17th century), Historiography of China
Research: Cultural and intellectual history of China. Most of Tillman's research is on the history of Confucian thought, especially during the Song through Ming periods. But he also studies cultural developments during other periods; for example, he explores the making of heroes in Chinese historical consciousness through a case study of how Zhuge Liang was evaluated over the centuries. A new area of interest arises from his course on the history of Chinese science and medical traditions

CHRISTY G. TURNER II
Regents' Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, ASU-PO BOX 872402, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
Tel: 480-965-6452; Dept: 480-965-6213; Fax: 480-965-7671; Office: ANTH 354
E-mail: christy.turner@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/anthropology/ (Dept. page)

Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Country/Region:
Teaching:
Research: dental anthropology (especially the origin and dispersal of anatomically modern humans and reconstructing the peopling of the Pacific Basin and adjoining areas using dental morphology), and the taphonomy and bioarchaeology of violence and cannibalism (mainly in the Southwest and Mexico).
Publications: Recent publications include: Turner, Christy G. II and , "Cannibalism in the Prehistoric American Southwest: Occurrence, Taphonomy, Explanation, and Suggestions for Standardized World Definition" (with Jacqueline A. Turner II), Anthropological Science 103(1) (1995); and "Shifting continuity: Modern human origin," The Origin and Past of Modern Humans as Viewed from DNA: Proceedings of the Workshop on the Origin and Past of Homo sapiens sapiens as Viewed from DNA--Theoretical Approach (S. Brenner and K. Hanihara editors), Kyoto, International Institute for Advanced Studies, Recent Advanced in Human Biology, Vol. 1 (C. E. Oxnard series editor), World Scientific, Singapore (1995).

MAX UNDERWOOD
Professor of Architecture
School of Architecture, ASU-P.O. Box 871605, Tempe, AZ, 85287-1605
Tel: 480-965-5795; Dept: 480-965-3536; Fax: 480-965-0968; Office: ARCH 307
E-mail: max.underwood@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/caed/ (Dept. page)

M.Arch.: Princeton University
Country/Region: Japan
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ALVAPPILLAI VELUPPILLAI
Faculty Associate
Department of Religious Studies, ASU-P.O. Box 873104, Tempe, AZ, 85287-3104
Dept: 480-965-7145; Fax: 480-965-5139;
E-mail: alvappillai.veluppillai@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/religious_studies/ (Dept. page)

Ph.D.: Oxford University
Country/Region: South Asia
Teaching: REL 350 Hinduism
Research: specializing in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism with research interests in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka

NING WANG
Assistant Professor
School of Global Studies, ASU PO Box 5102, Tempe, AZ 85287-5102
Tel: 480-727-0738; Dept: 480-727-8286; fax: 480-727-8292; Office: West Hall 147
Email: ningwang@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/globalstudies/faculty/wang.html

Ph.D.: University of Chicago
Country/Region: China
Teaching: international development, global trends, ethics and globalization
Research: transition and developing economics, particularly institutional and organizational structure of the economic system
Publications: co-author of Cultural Psychology: Culture and Mind (Zhongshan University Press, 1993); Making a Market Economy: The Institutional Transformation of a Freshwater Fishery in a Chinese Community (Routledge, 2004)

KURT WEISER
Regents' Professor of Art
School of Art, Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts, ASU-PO Box 871505, Tempe, AZ 85287-1505
Tel: 480-965-3144; Dept: 480-965-8521; Fax: 480-965-8338; Office: ART 38
E-mail: kurt.weiser@asu.edu; Website: http://art.asu.edu/ (Dept. page)

M.F.A.: University of Michigan
Country/Region: Southeast Asia
Teaching:
Research: Ceramics
Publications:

DOUGLAS R WEBSTER
Professor
School of Global Studies, ASU-PO BOX 874802, Tempe, AZ 85287-4802
Tel: 480-727-0737; Dept: 480-727-8286; Fax: 480-727-8292; Office: COOR 5638
E-mail: douglas.webster@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/globalstudies/faculty/Webster.htm

Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley
Country/Region: East Asia
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STEPHEN H WEST
Director, Center for Asian Research
Foundation Professor of Chinese
Department of Languages and Literatures, ASU-PO BOX 870202, Tempe, AZ 85287-0202
Tel: 480-965-4180; Dept: 480-965-7184; Fax: 480-965-8317; Office: Coor 6668
E-mail: stephen.h.west@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/globalstudies/faculty/west.html

Ph.D.: University of Michigan
Country/Region: China
Teaching: Chinese 413: Introduction to Classical Chinese
Research:
Publications:

ELIZABETH WONG
Lecturer of Japanese
School of International Letters and Cultures, ASU-PO BOX 870202, Tempe, AZ 85287-0202
Tel: 480-965-3938; Dept: 480-965-6281; Fax: 480-965-0135; Office: LL447D
E-mail: elizabeth.wong@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/dll/jpn/japanese.html (Dept. page)

M.A.: Washington University
Country/Region: Japan
Teaching: JPN 101 Beginning Japanese; JPN 201 Intermediate Japanese; JPN 301 Japanese Conversation

TIMOTHY C. WONG
Professor of Chinese
(Director, Center for Asian Research 1995-2002)
Department of Languages and Literatures, ASU-PO BOX 870202, Tempe, AZ 85287-0202
Tel: 480-965-7551; Dept: 480-965-6281; Fax: 480-965-0135; Office: LL405D
E-mail: timothy.wong@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/dll/chi/chinese.html (Dept. page)

Ph.D.: Stanford University
Country/Region: China
Teaching: Traditional Chinese Literature, Problems of Translation, Traditional Chinese Fiction
Research: Traditional Chinese fiction, narratology, modern Chinese pastime fiction
Publications: Wu Ching-tzu. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978,
Stories for Saturday: Twentieth-Century Popular Chinese Fiction. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2003.
Sherlock in Shanghai: Stories of Crime and Detection by Cheng Xiaoqing. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007

MARK R. WOODWARD
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Department of Religious Studies, ASU-P.O. Box 873104, Tempe, AZ, 85287-3104
Tel: 480-965-2530; Dept: 480-965-7145; Fax: 480-965-5139; Office: ECA 337
E-mail: mark.woodward@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/religious_studies/ (Dept. page)

Ph.D.: University of Illinois
Country/Region: Indonesia, Burma, Singapore, Southeast Asia
Teaching: Islamic Thought in Southeast Asia, Religion and Politics, Religion and Violence
Research: Islam, Religion and Culture, Religion and Modernity, Politics and Violence, Islamic Mysticism in Java, Folk and Popular Practice in Islam, Budhism, Christianity in Burma and North East India
Publications:
Books Religions of the World. 10th edition. With Lewis M. Hopfe.
Theology of Terror (ed.), Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall 2004
Sacred Texts of the World’s Religions, Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall 2004
Jalan Baru Islam Memetakan Paradigm Mutakhir Islam Indonesia (editor) Jakarta: Mizan 1998 (translation of Towards a New Paradigm)
Defenders of Reason in Islam. Mutazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol. (With Richard C. Martin and Dwi S. Atmaja) Oxford: One World, 1997.
Towards a New Paradigm: Intellectual Developments in Indonesian Islam. (ed) Tempe: Arizona State University Program for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series. 1996
Islam in Java: Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta. Association for Asian Studies Monograph Series. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1989.
Selected articles
Religious Conflict and the Globalization of Knowledge: Indonesia 1978-2004, in Linell Cady and Sheldon Simon (eds.) Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia. Disruption Violence London: Routledge 2006.
Religion Culture and Regime Change: Reformasi in Yogyakarta. In in Ihya’Ulum al-Din vol.7 no.1 2005.
Ini Masih Kerajaan (This is Still a Kingdom): Sacred Geography and Social Drama in Yogyakarta." Pp. 227-45 in Sacred Places and Modern Landscapes: Sacred Geography and Social-Religious Transformations in South and Southeast Asia, ed. Ronald A. Lukens-Bull Tempe: Arizona State University Program for Southeast Asian Studies
Monograph Series Press, 2003.
The Fast of Ramadan in Yogyakarta in Ihya’Ulum al-Din vol.4 no.2 2002.
A Theology of Terror: The “Religious” Thought of Osama bin Laden, The Taliban and Hizb Al Tahir Al Islami. East Asian Pastoral Review. 2002 vol. 39 no. 1 pp. 80-94
Modernity and the Disenchantment of Life: A Muslim Christian Contrast, in, J. Meuleman (ed.) Islam in the Era of Globalization. Muslim Attitudes Towards Modernity and Identity. London: Rutledge Cruzon, pp. 111-142, 2002
“ Islam: Asia,” in The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier Science LTD.
“Gifts for the Sky People: Animal Sacrifice, headhunting and power among the Naga of Burma and Assam,” in Indigenous Religions: A Companion. Edited by Graham Harvey. London: Cassell, 2000.

ROBERT L. YOUNGBLOOD
Professor of Political Science
(Acting Director, Center for Asian Research 1981)
Department of Political Science, ASU-PO BOX 873902, Tempe, AZ 85287-3902
Tel: 480-965-2912; Dept: 480-965-6551; Fax: 480-965-3929; Office: MC 203Q
E-mail: bob.y@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/polisci/ (Dept. page)

Ph.D.: University of Michigan
Country/Region: Philippines, Southeast Asia
Teaching: Southeast Asian Politics; Comparative Government
Research: current teaching and research interests are focused on church-state relations in the Philippines, human rights in Southeast Asia, and Asian political economy.

XIA ZHANG
Senior Lecturer of Chinese
School of International Letters and Cultures, ASU-PO BOX 870202, Tempe, AZ 85287-0202
Tel: 480-965-0703; Dept: 480-965-6281; Fax: 480-965-0135; Office: LL164D
E-mail: xia.zhang@asu.edu; Website: http://www.asu.edu/clas/dll/chi/chinese.html (Dept. page)

Ph.D.: University of Alberta
Country/Region: China
Teaching: Chinese Language; Chinese linguistics, Teaching Chinese as a second language
Research: Chinese language pedagogy, Second language acquisition, Chinese linguistics; doctoral dissertation on the "Acquisition of Chinese Third-Person Anaphora by Native English Speakers"