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729 Elm
Norman OK 73019-2105
(405) 325-3580
FAX: (405) 325-7738
uschina at ou dot edu

Affiliated Faculty (The OU China studies faculty is extermely diverse, covering a wide range of disciplines and departments listed alphabestically below.)

DIRECTOR
Peter Hays Gries (葛小伟)
Harold J. & Ruth Newman Chair in US-China Issues; Associate Professor of International and Area Studies;
Hester Hall, Room 133; 405/325-1962; gries at ou dot edu
(Chinese politics and foreign policy, US-China relations)

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Mark W. Frazier (费景明)
ConocoPhillips Professor of Chinese Politics, Associate Professor of International and Area Studies;
Hester Hall Room 123; 405/325-2667; markfrazier at ou dot edu
(Chinese politics and political economy; labor and social policy)


Architecture
Shen Guoqiang (沈国强)
Academic Director & Associate Professor, Regional & City Planning
202C Carnegie Building; Phone: (405)325-1698; guoqiangs at ou dot 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 at ou dot edu
(Art and studio art education; Arts Management, International Programs in the Arts)

Botany and Microbiology
LuoYiqi (骆亦骐)
Professor of Ecology; Changjiang Scholar, Ministry of Education, China
Phone: 405 325 1651; yluo at ou dot edu
(Plant ecophysiology, Ecosystem ecology, Modeling, Biogeochemistry and global carbon cycling, Forest ecology, Grassland ecology)

Zhou Jizhong (Joe) (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 at ou dot 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 at ou dot 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)

Cataloging
Huang Jie (Lily) , Assistant Professor of Bibliography
Phone: (405)325-4082; lilyh at ou dot edu
(Catalog monographs in several subjects, such as history, philosophy, literature, languages, etc., and in a variety of languages, including Chinese, in both book and non-book formats)

Chinese language (Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics)
Gui Mingchao (桂明超)
Associate Professor,
Kaufman Hall, rm 120; Phone: (405) 325-2992; mgui at ou dot edu
(Chinese language and culture; general linguistics; phonetics; phonology)

Qi Yanrong (齐燕蓉) Chinese Instructor, MLL, yqi at ou dot edu

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

Communication
Todd Sandel, Assistant Professor
Burton Hall, rm136; Phone:(405) 325-1809; tlsandel at ou dot 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 at ou dot edu
(provider-patient communication, bilingual/cross-cultural health communication, social support and health literacy)

Computer Science
Cheng Qi (程岐)
Assistant Professor
Phone: (405) 325-1017; qcheng at ou dot edu
(theoretical computer science)

Confucius Institute
Gou Sharon (苟学红), Director
1700 Asp Avenue, Suite 202; Phone: (405) 325-5101; Fax: (405) 325-0860; sgou at ou dot edu
(Chinese language teaching in USA; US-China business training and exchange; Successful Confucius Institute (CI) model)

Economics
Ju Jiandong(菊建东)
Associate Professor
Hester Hall, Room 317;  Phone: (405) 325-5492; jdju at ou dot edu
(Industrial Organization, International Trade, Economic Theory)

Liu Qihong , Assistant Professor,
Hester Hall, Room 312; Phone: (405) 325-5846p; qliu at ou dot edu
(Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics)

Education, College of
Ruan Jiening (阮杰宁)
Associate Professor, Literacy/Reading Education; Director, OU Reading Clinic
Phone: (405) 325-1498; jruan at ou dot 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 at ou dot 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)

Ge Xun (葛迅)
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Phone: (405) 325-8418;  xge at ou dot 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 
Schusterman Center 4502 E. 41st St.  Tulsa, OK 74135; jstowell at ou dot edu, Phone: (918) 660-3498
(Intercultural communication; the effect of Confucianism on communication in East Asia)

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

Gan Rong Zhu (干荣珠)
Professor and Charles E. Foster Chair in Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering
School of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering and OU Bioengineering Center
Phone: (405)325-1099; Fax: (405)325-1088; rgan at ou dot edu
(Academic specializations: biomedical engineering, tissue and organ biomechanics, mechanical engineering)

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

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

Xu Yunjun , Assistant Professor, School of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
865 asp avenue, room 218; Phone: (405)325-6797; Yjxu at ou dot edu
(Aerial and space vehicles' guidance, control, and dynamics)

English
Jonathan C Stalling, Assiatnt professor of English
stalling at OU dot edu
(twentieth-century American poetry and East-West poetics; multi-ethnic American poetry, cultural theory, and Asian American studies)

Geography, College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences
Bret Wallach, Professor of Geography
Sarkeys Energy Center, Room 650, 100 East Boyd Street; Phone: (405) 325-5325; bwallach at ou dot 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; Phone: (405) 325-4293; myuan at ou dot edu
(Representation of dynamic geographic phenomena in support of spatio-temporal query, analysis, and modeling)

Geology and Geophysics, School of
G. Randy Keller, Professor of Geophysics & Edward Lamb McCullough Chair
Sarkeys Energy Center, Rm. 726, Phone: (405) 325-6697; grkeller at ou dot edu
(Geophysics, Structure and Evolution of the Lithosphere from basins to the upper mantle, and Geoinformatics)

History
Alan Atkinson, Lecturer
Phone: (405) 325-6370: aatkinson at ou dot edu
(Chinese art history)

Garret P. Olberding, Assistant Professor (starting Fall 2007)
golberding at ou dot edu
(Early Chinese oratorical, administrative, penal, and military history, from the Shang to the Jin dynasties )

Elena Songster, Assistant Professor, SIAS/History,
Dale Hall Tower, rm 409D; Phone: (405) 325-6337; songster at ou dot edu
(Modern China, environmental history, and nature protection in China)

History of Science
Peter Barker, Professor
PHSC, rm 617, Phone:(405) 325-2242; barkerp at ou dot edu
(History and philosophy of science, especially the history and historiography of the Scientific Revolution and cognitive approaches to conceptual change in science; China)

Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Curator of the History of Science Collections, Professor of Bibliography
Phone: (405) 325-2741; mogilvie at ou dot 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.)

International and Areas Studies
Hu Tze-yue G. (胡智於)
Adjunct Lecturer, IAS
Hester Hall, Rm 105; Phone: (405) 325-1584, Tze. yue. G. Hu-1 at ou dot edu (East Asian identities and cultures, East-West dialogue, Visual and Cultural Studies, Overseas Chinese societies and cultures)

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

Wei Shihshu (Walter) (魏诗曙)
Professor
Phone: (405) 325-2726; wwei at ou dot edu
(Geometry, Analysis, and Chinese philosophy and history)

Philosophy
Amy Olberding, Assistant Professor, SIAS/Philosophy
Dale Hall Tower, rm 614; Phone: (405) 325-6324; aoberding at ou dot edu
(Philosophical approaches to human mortality; the ethics of the domestic sphere; philosophical constructions of self and society; her work has appeared in Philosophy East and West and International Philosophical Quarterly, and she has also directed a National Endowment for the Humanities grant project concerning East Asian traditions)

Physics & Astronomy
Wang Yun (王云)
Associate Professor
440W. Brooks St.; Phone: (405) 325-3961

Political Science
Yong Wook Lee, Assistant Professor, Poli Sci/SIAS
Hester Hall, #129, Phone: (405) 325-5426; yongir at ou dot edu
(China-Japan Relations on Asian Regionalism; Politics of Financial Liberalization in East Asia)

Zhang Bing (张冰)
Assistant Professor of Zoology. http://www.ou.edu/cas/zoology/Zhang.htm
Richards Hall, room 111.Phone: 405-325-7450. email: bing at ou dot edu (Dr. Zhang and his associates study synaptic transmission and neurological disorders using the fruit fly as a model organism)

Psychology
Song Hairong (宋海荣)
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Dall Hall Tower 815C; Phone: 325-5183; hsong at ou dot edu
(Statistical modeling: Longitudinal models, time series models, and structural equation models)