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Meet the Asian Studies Faculty

Michael SchneiderMichael Schneider, Chair
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1996
Nancy EberhardtNancy Eberhardt
Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1984
"I have always been fascinated with the relation between culture and mind, with how the particular cultural notions that we happen to have grown up with affect our cognitive processes more generally."
Robert SeibertRobert Seibert
Robert W. Murphy Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., Tulane University, 1969
"I have designed and taught two new courses-one on international non-governmental organizations, the other on the transnational politics of Western Europe."
Ryohei MatsudaRyohei Matsuda
Associate Professor of Modern Languages
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2000
William Young William Young
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1992
Weihong Du
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Ph.D., Chinese, 2009, University of Minnesota.
Kaori Furuya Kaori Furuya
Visiting Instructor in Japanese
Ph.D. candidate, City University of New Y0rk,
Chengjuan Sun Chengjuan Sun
Visiting Instructor in Chinese
Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University

Lecturer
Shuyan Gao Shipplett
Lecturer in Chinese
B.A., Shanxi University-China; M.S., Western Illinois University, 2005

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Knox Among Top Colleges for Fulbright Scholar Awards in 2009-10

Knox College is one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation for Fulbright Scholar grants awarded to faculty during 2009-2010. Karen Kampwirth is studying feminism and politics at the University of Buenos Aires, and Jeremy Day O'Connell is conducting musicology and linguistics research at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Japanese Club Marks Halloween with Kimodameshi

Severed heads, a ghost in the well -- the Knox College Japanese Club marks Halloween by building a "Kimodameshi," which led visitors through scenes drawn from traditional Japanese ghost stories.

Amity Shlaes Gives Lecture on US Economy

Too much government action, not too little, lengthened the Great Depression, according to author and columnist Amity Shlaes, in an October 15 lecture at Knox College.

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