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The OU China studies faculty is extremely diverse, covering a wide range of disciplines.

Architecture

  • Guoqiang Shen (沈国强), Academic Director & Associate Professor
    Regional & City Planning
    202C Carnegie Building; Phone: (405) 325-1698; guoqiangs@ou.edu
    (Chinese urban planning and regional development, real estate market and general US-China issues on business and education)

Art (Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts)

  • Andrew Phelan, Director Emeritus and Professor
    #2240 RPAC; Phone: (405) 325-1037; alphelan@ou.edu
    (Art and studio art education; Arts Management, International Programs in the Arts)

Botany and Microbiology

  • Yiqi Luo (骆亦骐), Professor of Ecology; Changjiang Scholar, Ministry of Education, China
    Phone: 405 325 1651: yluo@ou.edu
    (Plant ecophysiology, Ecosystem ecology, Modeling, Biogeochemistry and global carbon cycling, Forest ecology, Grassland ecology)

  • Joe (Jizhong) Zhou (周际中), Presidential Professor, Department of Botany and Microbiology;Director, Institute for Environmental Genomics (IEG); Editor for Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Stephenson Research & Technology Center
    101 David L. Boren Blvd.; Phone: (405) 325-6073; Fax: (405) 325-3442; Jzhou@ou.edu
    (Microbial Genomics and Microbial Ecology)

Business

  • David Ralston, Michael F. Price Chair in International Business; Professor, Business/Management/IAS,
    Adams Hall, Rm. 206; Phone: (405) 325-2651; dralston@ou.edu
    (Management and international business; serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of International Business Studies, The Journal of World Business and The Asia-Pacific Journal of Management)

Chinese language (Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics)

  • Ming Chao Gui (桂明超), Associate Professor,
    Kaufman Hall, rm 120; Phone: (405) 325-2992; mgui@ou.edu
    (Chinese language and culture; general linguistics; phonetics; phonology)

  • Yanrong Qi, Chinese Instructor, MLL, yqi@ou.edu

  • Ning Yu (於宁), Associate Professor, Coordinator/East Asian Studies, MLL and L/IAS,
    Kaufman Hall, rm 123; Phone: (405) 325-1497; ningyu@ou.edu
    (Chinese language and literature; comparative and cognitive linguistics)

Communication

  • Todd Sandel, Assistant Professor
    Burton Hall, rm136; Phone: (405) 325-1809; tlsandel@ou.edu
    (Intercultural communication; language and social interaction; family communication, and Taiwanese/Chinese studies)

  • Elaine Hsieh, Assistant Professor
    Burton Hall, rm135; Phone: (405) 325-3154; ehsieh@ou.edu
    (provider-patient communication, bilingual/cross-cultural health communication, social support and health literacy)

Computer Science

  • Qi Cheng (程岐), Assistant Professor
    Phone: (405) 325-1017; qcheng@ou.edu
    (theoretical computer science)

Economics

  • Jiandong Ju (菊建东), Associate Professor
    Hester Hall, Room 317;  (405) 325-5492; jdju@ou.edu
    (Industrial Organization, International Trade, Economic Theory)

  • Qihong Liu, Assistant Professor,
    Hester Hall, Room 312; Telephone: (405) 325-5846p; qliu@ou.edu
    (Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics)

Education, College of

  • Jiening Ruan (阮杰宁), Associate Professor, Literacy/Reading Education; Director, OU Reading Clinic
    (405) 325-1498; jruan@ou.edu
    (Historiography; Cultural and linguistic aspects of literacy development; Computer technology application in reading education)

  • David Tan, Associate Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Center for Student Affairs Research;
    Collings Hall, Room 230C; Phone: (405) 325-5986; dtan@ou.edu
    (Higher education administration; comparative higher education; strategic planning in higher education; institutional research in higher education; leadership theories and development; college student development; institutional change)

  • Xun Ge (葛迅), Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
    Phone: (405) 325-8418; xge@ou.edu (Instructional design and technology; cognition, motivation, and instruction; online learning communities; multimedia or e-learning)

Education, K-12

  • Jessica Stowell, Associate Director, Confucius Institute; Director, Oklahoma Institute for Teaching East Asia
    OU-Tulsa Schusterman Center 4502 E. 41st St. Tulsa, OK 74135; (918) 660-3498; jstowell@ou.edu
    (Intercultural communication; the effect of Confucianism on communication in East Asia)

Engineering

  • Hong Liu, Charles and Jean Smith Chair in Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adjunct Professor of Medicine
    202 West Boyd, Rm. 219; Phone: (405)325-4286; Fax: (405)325-7066; liu@ou.edu

  • Chen Ling (凌晨), Assistant Professor, School of Industrial Engineering
    202 West Boyd, Rm. 124; Phone: (405)325-4185; Fax: (405)325-7555; chenling@ou.edu
    (Human Factors, Cognitive Engineering, and Usability Evaluation)

  • Zhisheng Shi (史智胜), Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Phone: (405) 325-4292; Fax: (405) 325-7066; shi@ou.edu
    (semiconductor materials, opto-electronic devices and applications)

  • Tian-You Yu, Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Phone: (405) 325-3344; Fax: (405) 325-7066
    (atmospheric radar signal processing, radar meteorology)

Geography, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences

  • Bret Wallach, Professor of Geography
    Sarkeys Energy Center, Room 650, 100 East Boyd Street; (405) 325-5325; bwallach@ou.edu
    (A cultural geographer with regional interests, his work in recent years has centered on the impact of modernization on the traditional landscapes of Asia and the Middle East.)

  • May Yuan, Associate Dean, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences; Professor, Department of Geography; Director, Center for Spatial Analysis
    Sarkeys Energy Center, Room 618, 100 East Boyd Street; (405) 325-4293; myuan@ou.edu
    (Representation of dynamic geographic phenomena in support of spatio-temporal query, analysis, and modeling)

History

  • Garret P. Olberding, Assistant Professor
    golberding@ou.edu
    (Early Chinese oratorical, administrative, penal, and military history, from the Shang to the Jin dynasties )

  • E. Elena Songster, Assistant Professor of Chinese History
    esongster@ou.edu

History of Science

  • Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Curator of the History of Science Collections, Professor of Bibliography
    (405) 325-2741; mogilvie@ou.edu
    (19th- and 20th-century science; history of women in science; modern biological science. Author of A Dame Full of Vim and Vigor: A Biography of Alice Middleton Boring, an American Biologist in China. London: Harwood Academic, 1999.)

Mathematics

  • Meijun Zhu (朱梅俊), Associate Professor
    Phone: (405) 325-0492
    (Partial Differential Equations and its applications in global geometry and image study)

Petroleum and Geological Engineering, Mewbourne School of

  • Dongxiao “Don” Zhang (张东晓), Miller Chair Professor
    Phone: (405) 325-5928 or (405) 325-292; donzhang@ou.edu
    (Reservoir Simulation Uncertainty Quantification, Pore-Scale Studies of Coupled Processes, Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide)

Physics & Astronomy

  • Yun Wang (王云), Associate Professor
    440W. Brooks St.; Phone: (405) 325-3961

US-China Institute Director

  • Peter Hays Gries (葛小伟) Harold J. & Ruth Newman Chair in US-China Issues; Associate Professor
    Hester Hall, Room 133; Phone: (405) 325-1962; gries@ou.edu
    (Chinese politics and foreign policy, US-China relations)

OUCI Norman Office: Phone: (405) 325-0208; Fax: (405) 325-0725 ~ OUCI Tulsa Office: Phone: (918) 660-3498; Fax: (918) 660-3490

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