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Core Faculty by Discipline

Anthropology Department

• Ph.D., New York University, 2001; Assistant Professor
• Office: 374B Turlington Hall; Phone: 392-2253 x 243
• Research & Teaching Interests: biological anthropology, human evolution, Southeast Asia, Malaysia
• Email: krigbaum@ufl.edu
• Website: http://web.anthro.ufl.edu/faculty/Krigbaum.shtml

• Assistant Professor
• Office: 1112 Turlington Hall; Phone: 392-2253
• Research & Teaching Interests: Ethnography, historical anthropological demography, China.
• Email: ckshih@ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ckshih/

• Ph.D., Cornell University, 1997; Assistant Professor
• Research & Teaching Interests: Phonetics, Second Language Acquisition, Sound Symbolism
• Office: 4131E Turlington Hall; Phone: 392-0639 x 235
• Email: ratree@ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ratree/

African and Asian Languages and Literatures Department

• Ph.D. - Columbia University (2002); Assistant Professor
• Office: 009 Anderson Hall; Phone: 392-1625 x 243; Office hours: Tuesday, 12:45 -2:00, Thursday, 2:00 - 3:00, or by appointment.
• Research & Teaching Interests: Literature and language use in both Hindi and Urdu, with particular attention to expressive traditions among women
• Email: amybard@ufl.edu
• Webpage: http://www.aall.ufl.edu/faculty/bios/abard.html

• Ph.D., Stanford University, 1979; Associate Professor
• Research & Teaching Interests: medieval Chinese poetry and social history
• Office: 478 Grinter Hall; Phone: 392-2014; Office Hours: W 9-11 or by appointment.
• Email: cchenna@aall.ufl.edu
• Webpage: http://www.aall.ufl.edu/faculty/bios/chennault2.htm

• Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2004; Assistant Professor
• Research & Teaching Interests : Second Language Acquisition, Japanese Pedagogy, SLA Research Methods, Japanese Linguistics
• Office: 464 Grinter Hall; Phone: 392-9766
• Email: tegi@aall.ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~tegi/

• Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2003; Assistant Professor
• Research & Teaching Interests: Modern Japanese Literature Colonialism and Race/Class Cultural Studies
• Office: 417 Grinter Hall; Phone: 392-2422
• Email: helenlee@aall.ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.aall.ufl.edu/faculty/bios/helenlee.htm

• Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2001; Assistant Professor
• Research & Teaching Interests: Phonology, phonology-phonetics interface, Asian tones, Vietnamese linguistics, second language acquisition, language change
• Office: 445 Grinter Hall; Phone: 392-7084; Office Hours: 10:30-11:30 MTR and by appointment.
• Email: apham@aall.ufl.edu
• Webpage: http://www.aall.ufl.edu/faculty/bios/pham.htm

• Ph.D., Columbia University, 2000; Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Film
• Research & Teaching Interests: Modern Chinese literature, film, and culture
• Office: 472A Grinter Hall; Phone: 392-7083; Tuesday, 2-5, or by appointment.
• Email: crojas@aall.ufl.edu
• Webpage: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/crojas

• Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1987; Associate Professor
• Research & Teaching Interests: Japanese language and linguistics, folklore
• Office: 472 Grinter Hall; Phone: 392-7082
• Email: wehmeyer@aall.ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/wehmeyer/index.htm

• Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, 2004; Assistant Professor
• Research & Teaching Interests: Japanese history, international history, and gender  studies.
• Office: Keene-Flint Hall; Phone: 392-0271
• Email: kovner@ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/banerjee/

Political Science

• Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2006, Assistant Professor
• Research & teaching interests: research methods, comparative politics, and voting behavior. Quantitative methods involving ecological inference techniques on aggregate electoral data; electoral dynamics in new democracies with a special focus upon South Korea and East Asia; and how voting technology affects voting behavior.
• Email: wpark@ufl.edu
• Website: http://web.polisci.ufl.edu/people/faculty/parkw.htm

Benjamin Smith

• Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle (2002), Assistant Professor
• Office: 234 Anderson Hall; Phone: 392-0262 x 233
• Research & Teaching Interests: politics of resource wealth and the comparative analysis of authoritarian political systems.
• Email: bbsmith@polisci.ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/bbsmith

• Ph.D., University of Bombay, 1978, Professor
• Research & Teaching Interests: The Sri Vaishnava tradition; Women in the Hindu tradition; Hinduism in the Diaspora; Islamic literature in Tamil ; Hindu traditions in Cambodia
• CHiTra (Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions)
• Office: 104 Anderson Hall; Phone: 392-1625
• Email: vasu@religion.ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/vasu
  

• Ph.D., University of Washington, 2001, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion
• Research & Teaching Interests: South Asian Buddhism, early Buddhist manuscripts and and inscriptions, Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Pali languages; courses in Asian Religions, Indian Buddhism, Buddhist texts, Hindu texts and ritual contexts.
• Office: 130 Anderson Hall; Phone: 392-1625 x 240
• Email: jneelis@ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jneelis/

• Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2000; Assistant Professor
• Research & Teaching Interests: Buddhist studies, Chinese religions
• Office: 107F Anderson Hall; Phone: 392-1625 x 233
• Email: mpoceski@religion.ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mpoceski/

• Ph.D., Duke University 1972; Associate Professor
• Research & Teaching Interests: New religious movements, religion in cyberspace, religion in India.
• Office: 107 Anderson Hall; Phone: 392-1625
• Email: gthursby@religion.ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/home.htm

• Coordinator, Museum Operations
• Office: P.O. Box 112700; Phone: 392-9826
• Email: cqmason@ufl.edu

Language Faculty

• M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1976); Senior Lecturer
• Specialization: Contemporary Japanese
• Area of Teaching: Japanese Literature, Language, Society, Folklore, Culture
• Office: 407 Grinter Hall; Phone: 392-1581
• Email: skubota@aall.ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/skubota/

• Ph.D., Cornell University; Instructor
• Research & Teaching Interests: Chinese Language
• Office: 402 Grinter Hall; Phone: 846-2855; Office Hours: T:12:00-1:00, Th: 12:00 - 2:00, or by appointment.
• Email: cshen@aall.ufl.edu
• Website: http://plaza.ufl.edu/cshen

• Email: yuotate@aall.ufl.edu

• Ph.D., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (2006); Lecturer of Korean
• Research & Teaching interests: Conversation Analysis, Interactional Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Language Pedagogy. Currently teaching Beginning and Intermediate Korean.
• Office: 417 Grinter Hall; Phone 392-7550
• Email: kyoon@ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/kyoon/

Affiliates & Emeritus

• Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1970; Professor
• Area of Specialization/Research: Chinese Language and Linguistics; Functional Syntax; Discourse Grammar
• Research & Teaching Interests: Chinese language and structure; calligraphy; linguistics.
• Office: 417 Grinter Hall; Phone: 392-7550
• Email: chauncey@aall.ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.aall.ufl.edu/faculty/bios/chu_chauncey.htm

• Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1982; Associate Professor
• Research & Teaching Interests: Japanese and Asian Film
• Office: 4309 Turlington Hall; Phone 392-6650 x 247
• Email: nygren@ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.english.ufl.edu/faculty/snygren/

• Ph.D., Purdue University, 1986; Assistant Professor
• Research & Teaching Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century American Literature, Post-Colonial Theory, Feminist Theories
• Office: 4113 Turlington Hall; Phone 392-6650 x 284
• Email: mschuell@english.ufl.edu
• Website: http://www.english.ufl.edu/faculty/mschueller/

• Ph.D., Harvard University,1969; Associate Professor
• Research & Teaching Interests: Distribution of income and wealth, poverty, and real estate in Russia and Japan, Undergraduate Managerial Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Economies of East Asia, Economic and Social History of Russia, and Graduate Economic Development
• Office: 326 Matherly Hall; Phone: 392-0112
• Email: yasushi@ufl.edu
• Website: http://bear.cba.ufl.edu/toda/index.html
• http://grove.ufl.edu/~toda/

• Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992; Associate Professor
• Program in Linguistics at UF
• Research & Teaching Interests: Phonology, Phonetics, Dravidian Languages
• Office: 4131D Turlington Hall; Phone 392-0639 x 224
• Email: wiltshir@lin.ufl.edu
• Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/wiltshir/