CONTRIBUTORS
 
Alice Allan is a graduate of the Australian National University’s Asian Studies program with first class Honours in Japanese.
 

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

Andrew Bozio is an Honors Student and former Gaines Fellow at the University of Kentucky. Majoring in English, he specializes in Renaissance drama and recently completed his thesis on the antitheatricalist campaign of the late sixteenth century. More broadly, Bozio is also interested in a new historicist approach to film studies. He gave the 2006 Edward T. Breathitt Undergraduate Lecture on the relationship of German film to the rise of the Nazi party, and he spent the past summer in Paris, France, researching the intersection of post-structuralism and the Nouvelle Vague in the May 1968 riots.

Roselee Bundy is Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Anthony E. Clark is Assistant Professor of Chinese History in the Department of History at the University of Alabama. His research focuses on the historiography of early China, especially the early Eastern Han.

Wilton S. Dillon is a Senior Scholar Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Dillon, an anthropologist, directed the Smithsonian’s Office of Seminars and Symposia for many years.

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.

Dorothy Figueira is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Translating the Orient (1991), The Exotic: A Decadent Quest (1994), and Aryans, Jews and Brahins (2002) and is the editor of La Production de l’Autre (1999).

William Fleming is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He received his B.A. in physics from Harvard and spent a year as a Fulbright fellow at Kyoto University. His M.A. thesis was on the subject of Japanese scientific writing during the period of rangaku (Dutch learning). His interests are in early modern Japanese literary and cultural history, particularly with regard to Japanese engagement with the Western world.

Hal W. French is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he continues to teach. He has published extensively in the area of South Asian religions and has been involved in a major research project—the production of an Encyclopedia of Hinduism, for which he serves as a member of the Board of Editors. He is a founding editor of SERAS.

Steven E. Gump, Illinois Distinguished Fellow in the Department of Educational Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has written on a wide range of topics within the fields of education, international business communication, Japanese human resource management, and Japanese religion. Much of his current research focuses on yet another area: scholarly publishing and the history of university presses in North America.

James Holmes is a senior research associate at the University of Georgia Center for International Trade and Security. He is co-author of the forthcoming book Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan (Routledge, 2007) and co-editor of the forthcoming book Asia Looks Seaward: Power and Maritime Strategy (Praeger Security International, 2007).

Edward S. Krebs and Sylvia Krebs founded China Bridge in the 1990s to promote educational exchange between China and the West. They are both China scholars with a long record of scholarship in SEC/AAS.

Harry H. Kuoshu is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures/Asian Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He is the author of Lightness of Being in China (1999) and editor of Celluloid China (2002). He is the program chair of 2007 Southeast Conference of American Association for Asian Studies.

Christopher M. Mayo is an M.A. student in East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Kansas. Before embarking on his master’s studies, he spent nearly ten years in Japan, where he worked for several years as a freelance translator specializing in legal documents. He is currently researching the development of pre-modern Japanese law, particularly the legal system during the classical Nara (710–94) and Heian (794–1185) periods.

Daniel A. Métraux is Patricia H. Menk Professor of Asian Studies at Mary Baldwin College and Editor of SERAS. His most recent book, Burma’s Modern Tragedy (co-edited with Khin Oo), was published in 2004. He received a Fulbright for scholarly research in China in 2006.

Dominic Nardi graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 2005 and is currently pursuing a joint degree with Georgetown University Law Center and Johns Hopkins–SAIS Southeast Asian Studies program. He has a special interest in environmental policy in Asia and has conducted research and completed internships throughout the region.

Tom Pynn is Instructor of Philosophy at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. His primary areas of intellectual interest are Asian philosophy, aesthetics, the philosophy of literature, and philosophies of peace.

Richard Rice is Professor of History and Co-Director of the Asia Program at
the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is currently working on a comparative
study of ethnic claims and human rights in Asia.

Roxanne Russell, a 2005 Honors graduate of Mary Baldwin College in Asian Studies, received a Fulbright award for a year of research and study in Japan. She is studying the phenomenon of suicide in contemporary Japan, especially as it is portrayed in postwar Japanese literature. Her paper on suicide in Japan won an Honorable Mention in the 2005 SEC/AAS undergraduate paper competition.

Chizuru Saeki is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Alabama.

Thomas W. Taylor is Associate Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. Taylor is a licensed marriage and family therapist in the state of Mississippi with over 24 years experience in family and individual therapy. His private practice has included working with children, adolescents, and adults.

Xin Yang is Visiting Instructor of Chinese at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oregon. Her primary areas of intellectual interest are contemporary Chinese literature and culture.