Whom to Contact

Michael Schneider
Professor of History, Chair of Integrated International Studies, Chair of Asian Studies
2 East South Street
Galesburg, IL 61401-4999
309-341-7512
E-mail: mschneid@knox.edu

Faculty

Meet the Asian Studies Faculty

Michael Schneider, Chair
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1996

Steve Cohn
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1986
"I am interested in environmental economics and in fundamental philosophical questions involved in the economics curriculum."

Nancy 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 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."

Mat Ryohei Matsuda
Associate Professor of Modern Languages
Ph.D., Indiana University, 2000

William Young
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1992

Weihong Du
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Ph.D., Chinese, University of Minnesota, 2009
"Currently I am researching cross-cultural interactions between China and the West during the 1930s."