Asian Studies Affiliate Faculty
Peter Barker, Professor
History of Science, PHSC, rm 617
Phone: (405) 325-2242; E-mail
Ph.D. from State University of New York, Buffalo; history and philosophy of science, especially the history and historiography of the Scientific Revolution and cognitive approaches to conceptual change in science; Britain, Denmark and Germany; currently serves as international evaluator for the Danish national consortium in philosophy, history of ideas and history of science (PHIS).
Laku Chidambaram, Academic Director/W. P. Wood Professor of MIS
Michael F. Price College of Business, Adams Hall, rm 305C
Phone: (405) 325-8013; E-mail
Ph.D. from Indiana University; primary area of research deals with the behavior and performance of virtual teams: examination of group development, media choice, trust, leadership and coordination; has worked as a business consultant and lectured in several countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore and the United States
Gary Emery, Professor
Business/Finance, Adams Hall, rm 207
Phone: (405) 325-2070; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Kansas; corporate finance; Japanese finance
Eugene Enrico, Dean/Reaugh Professor of Music (Musicology)
College of Fine Arts, Fred Jones Center, rm 122
Phone: (405) 325-7370; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Michigan; music history and culture; Renaissance and Baroque music
Elyssa Faison, Associate Professor
History, DAHT 403a
Phone: (405) 325-6370; E-mail
Ph.D. from UCLA; 20th century Japan
Joe Foote, Dean, Gaylord Chair
Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Gaylord Hall 3000
Phone: (405) 325-7565; Email
Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin; Broadcast Journalism, International Communication, Political Communication, Media Management, Broadcast History
Yoshiko Fukushima, Associate Professor
MLL&L, Kaufman Hall, rm 225B
Phone: (405) 325-1473; E-mail
Ph.D. from New York University; theater of Japan and Asian countries and Japanese literature, film and culture
Ming Chao Gui, Associate Professor
MLL& L, Kaufman Hall, rm 120
Phone: (405) 325-2992; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Texas, Arlington; Chinese language and culture; general linguistics; phonetics; phonology
Yang Hong, Associate Professor
School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Services, Carson Engineering Center, room 334
Phone: (405) 325-3642; E-mail
Interests: Remote Sensing Precipitation; Hydrological System Analysis; surface water; hydrometeorology; GIS/Digital Image Analysis; natural Hazard prediction and disaster mitigation; global change and hydrological cycle; rainfall-runoff modeling and floor forecasting; artificial intelligence; water resources planning and sustainable development
John Jiang, Assistant Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 202 W. Boyd Room 219
Phone: (405) 325-0927; E-mail
Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin; Electrical and Computer Engineering
Peter Lamb, Director/Professor
School of Meteorology, Sarkeys Energy Center, rm 1110
Phone: (405) 325-3041 ; E-mail
Ph.D. from Wisonsin, D. Sc. from Canterbury, New Zealand; primary research interest is in the physical and dynamical processes responsible for climate and its seasonal-to-interannual-to-decadal-scale variations, particularly for regions where the vital growing season rainfall is delivered by mesoscale weather systems; has conducted and directed extensive investigations of this type for the African Sahel and North America east of the Rocky Mountains; other physical-dynamical climate research has focused on the large-scale atmospheric circulation, sea-air interaction, and hydrospheric and atmospheric heat budgets of the tropical Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and the relation between the North Atlantic Oscillation and Moroccan winter precipitation
Doo Hun Lim, Associate Professor
Adult and Higher Education
820 Van Vleet Oval, room 208
Phone (405) 325-7641; Email
Ph.D. from the University of Illinois; Human Resource Education; Evaluation of learning and transfer in technology mediated learning environment; motivational and design issues in blended learning and e-learning; application of technologies for learning and performance improvement; cross cultural studies on learning and learning transfer.
Aparna Mitra, Associate Professor
Department of Economics, Hester Hall, room 320
Phone: (405) 325-5859; E-mail
Interests: Labor Economics, Economics of Race and Gender, Economics of Aging, Economic Development, and Economics of Education
Suzanne Moon, Assistant Professor
History of Science, 624 Physical Sciences Center
Phone: (405) 325-2076; E-mail
Interests: history of technology, history of international development, environmental history, Southeast Asian history and politics, history of colonialism and the post-colonial world.
Misha Nedeljkovich, Associate Professor
Film & Video Studies, Old Science Hall, rm 307
Phone: (405) 325-5525; E-mail
Ph.D. from Ohio University School of Telecommunication; directing; film; tv; theatre
Amy Olberding, Assistant Professor
SIAS/Philosophy, Dale Hall Tower, rm 614
Phone: (405) 325-6324; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Hawai’i; research interests include early Chinese philosophy, with a focus on ethics and therapeutic philosophical treatments of mortality.
Andrew Phelan, Director/Professor
School of Art, Fred Jones Center, rm 202
Phone: (405) 325-1037; E-mail
Ph.D. from New York University; a painter, writer and educator, he has exhibited widely and has written on art and studio art education in addition to organizing a number of exhibitions; before his appointment at OU he served as a consultant and advisor to Yugen Kaisha Gregg International, a privately held, educational and publishing group in Tokyo, Japan; recent initiatives in international education programs have resulted in the development of four faculty and exchange programs the most recent with Renmin University of Beijing.
Martin Piotrowski, Assistant Professor
Sociology, Kaufman Hall 331
Phone: (405) 325-1751; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of North Carolina; Migration; intergenerational relations, population and environment; social networks; household demography; quantitative methods.
Yanrong Qi, Instructor
MLL&L; Kaufmann Hall, room 123
Phone: (405) 325-5895; Email
MA from Nanjing University; Modern Chinese: Teaching Chinese as a Second Language
David Ralston, Professor
Business/Management/IAS, Adams Hall, rm 206
Phone: (405) 325-2651; E-mail
Ph.D. from Florida State University; Michael F. Price Chair in International Business; has published numerous articles in leading journals of management and international business and serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of International Business Studies, The Journal of World Business, and The Asia-Pacific Journal of Management
Todd Sandel, Assistant Professor
Department of Communication, Burton Hall, rm136
Phone: (405) 325-1809; E-mail
Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; intercultural communication; language and social interaction; family communication, and Taiwanese/Chinese studies
Zoe Sherinian, Assistant Professor
School of Music, Catlett Music Center, rm 138
Phone: (405) 325-5340; E-mail
Ph.D. from Wesleyan University; Ethnomusicological theories and methods; music of South India, indigenization theory; gender theory in music; African American music
Elena Songster, Assistant Professor
SIAS/History, Dale Hall Tower, rm 409d
Phone: (405) 325-6337, E-mail
Ph.D. in History from University of California, San Diego; modern China, environmental history, and nature protection in China
Jessica Stowell, Director, Oklahoma Institute for Teaching in East Asia
Associate Director, Confucius Institute
Schusterman Center 4502 E. 41st. St.
Tulsa, OK 74135
Phone: (918) 660-3498; E-mail
Ning Yu, Associate Professor
Coordinator/East Asian Studies
MLL and L/IAS, Kaufman Hall, rm 123
Phone: (405) 325-1497; E-mail
Ph.D from the University of Arizona; Chinese language and literature; comparative and cognitive linguistics
Eric Kramer, Professor
Communication/Film and Video Studies
610 Elm Ave. room 101
Phone: (405) 325-2349; E-mail
Ph.D. from Ohio University. Expertise: International/Intercultural communication; communication and technology, especially defusion of transnational broadband infrastructures. Dr. Kramer has received a Fulbright to Bulgaria and has extensive experience in Taiwan and Japan
