CONTRIBUTORS

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CONTRIBUTORS

Lin Lin Aung is a graduate student in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Gordon Bowen is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Mary Baldwin College. He has written extensively on issue pertaining to U.S. foreign policy, terrorism and the Middle East and Central America.

Zhiyuan Chen is a Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Appalachian State University where he teaches Chinese.

Lucien Ellington is Co-director of the Asia Program and UC Foundation Professor of Education at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Ellington is founding editor of Education About Asia, and author of three books including Education in the Japanese Life-Cycle: Implications for the United States (1992) and numerous articles on Japan. He has served as editor of ABC-CLIO’s Asia: A Global Handbook Series. Ellington has also served as a consultant for over 100 teacher institutes on Japan throughout the United States and co-directed many study tours of Japan for schoolteachers.

Christina Firpo is a Doctoral Candidate in Southeast Asian History at UCLA. With the generous support of the David Boren Dissertation Research Fellowship, UC Pacific Rim Fellowship, and Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, she completed her dissertation research in France and Vietnam. She is currently writing a dissertation titled “The Uprooted: The Management, Reproduction, and Contestation of Racial Order in the Orphan Welfare System in Colonial Vietnam 1898-1952”

Steven E. Gump, Illinois Distinguished Fellow and Letitia Walsh Fellow in the Department of Educational Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, holds degrees in Asian studies and religious studies (Cornell University; University of Illinois) and business administration (Cardiff University, Wales, U.K.). While working in Matsusaka, Japan, from 1996-1998, he completed numerous single-site and route pilgrimages, including the Saikoku Kannon pilgrimage. His has written on a wide range of topics within the fields of education, international business communication, Japanese human resource management, and Japanese religion.

Eric Henry obtained a PhD in Chinese Literature at Yale in 1979 and has since taught at Dartmouth (1980 - 82) and at the University of North Carolina (1982 - present). He was employed as a free-lance keyboard musician from 1961 to 1980 and was in the United States Army from 1968 to 1971. His army service included a one-year intensive course in Vietnamese at the Defense Language Institute at Fort Bliss, Texas, and a one-year tour of duty in Vietnam (1970 - 71). His publications include; Chinese Amusement: The Lively Plays of Li Yu (Archon Books, 1980), various articles on early Chinese history and culture in the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies and other journals, and articles on Vietnamese literature and historical legend in Vietnam Forum, Crossroads, the Michegan Quarterly.

Li Qingjun is Associate Professor of English, School of Foreign Languages, Zhengzhou University, Henan Province, China. Presently, she is completing her Master's degree in English at Belmont University, where she also teaches Chinese in the Foreign Language Department.

Xuexin Liu is associate professor of Japanese at Spelman College. She has published a comprehensive book on Studies of Classical Japanese and numerous research papers on historical Japanese linguistics, Japanese sociolinguistics, Japanese pedagogy, Japanese semantics, and Japanese social and cultural studies. She also has expertise in Japanese-English-Chinese translation and has published many translated works in Asian cultures.

Daniel A. Metraux is Professor and Chair of Asian Studies at Mary Baldwin College and editor of the Southeast Review of Asian Studies. He has written extensively on Japan’s New Religious Movements and co-edited Burma’s Modern Tragedy” in 2004.

Elizabeth L. Metraux is a student in Middle Eastern Studies at Syracuse University. She made two lengthy visits to the West Bank (Palestine) in 2003 and 2004 where she worked on human rights projects and lectured and taught at various schools and colleges. She has also done relief work in India after the 2004 tsunami as well as internships in New Zealand, Singapore, and Nepal. Her articles have appeared in a variety of academic journals under her maiden name, Elizabeth L. Saylor.

Roderic L. Owen, Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Mary Baldwin College, Virginia, recently spent a portion of a sabbatical leave engaged in teaching and research in India focused on Gandhian Ethics and Interfaith Education at Lady Doak College, Madurai, and the Madurai Gandhi Museum.

Farley Richmond is Professor of Theatre and Film Studies and Director of the Center for Asian Studies, University of Georgia. His most recent publication is Kutiyattam: Sanskrit Theater of India (CD-ROM). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. He has contributed articles on Indian theatre for the Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre and the The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, as well as the Asian Theatre Journal. He is currently co-authoring an introductory theatre text with Leigh Clements for Kendall/Hunt entitled, Theatre: Arts, Crafts, and Business which is due to be published in 2006. Richmond is President of SEC-AAS in 2005-06.

Susan A. Rosenkranz received her M.A. in History from Florida Atlantic University, and is a Ph.D. candidate at Florida International University. A freelance writer/producer before returning to academia, she produced and directed a political documentary in Northern Ireland, and has written extensively on the connections between early Irish and Indian nationalists.

Norman Harry Rothschild completed his doctoral dissertation, "Rhetoric, Ritual and Support Constituencies in the Political Authority of Wu Zhao, Woman Emperor of China" in 2003 at Brown University. Since then, as an Assistant Professor at the
University of North Florida in Jacksonville, he has taught Asian History and Gender History. The only American member of the Wu Zetian Research Association,
he travelled to Guangyuan, Sichuan to participate in their triennial conference in Fall 2005.

Suchitra Samanta, who received her B.A. in English from Lady Brabourne College in Calcutta, did her graduate work at the University of Virginia, earning a Master's degree in drama and a Ph.D. in anthropology. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She has contributed articles to Indian Sociology, Journal of Asian Studies, and Anthropology and Humanism and her more recent work on women and education among minorities in India has been published in Meridians, a journal on trans-nationalism, feminism and racism. A book, Hauntings, which is an anthology of translations she did from Bengali literature on the supernatural (with a feminist theme), was published in 2000.

I Nyoman Sedana is a faculty member and chairman of the Pedalangan Theatre Department at the Indonesian Institute of Arts (ISI) Denpasar. He received his BA from the Dance Academy of Arts (ASTI) Denpasar, SSP from STSI-Denpasar, MA from Brown University, and PhD from the University of Georgia. As a Balinese dalang (puppet master) and dancer, Sedana has performed wayang and other Balinese theatrical forms in Europe, Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Brazil, and the United States.

Lianying Shan, a Ph.D. candidate in Japanese Literature at Princeton University, is a specialist in modern Japanese literature and is completing her dissertation on postwar Japanese literature.

Constance Fletcher Smith is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Speech at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg. She teaches courses including Women in Literature and Global Issues in Literature.

David I. Steinberg is Distinguished Professor and Director of Asian Studies, Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service. He was previously a Representative of the Asia Foundation in Korea; Distinguished Professor of Korea Studies, Georgetown University; and formerly President of the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs. He is the author of twelve books and monographs including, Stone Mirror, Reflections on Contemporary Korea (2003), Burma: The State of Myanmar (2001), The Republic of Korea. Economic Transformation and Social Change (1989), and editor of Anti-American Sentiment on Korea (2004)

Tromila Wheat is an Honors Student at Mary Baldwin College majoring in International Relations.