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 Richard Davis, director Core Faculty Michiko Baribeau Affiliated Faculty Ian Buruma
Michiko Baribeau B.A., Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan; graduate study, Portland State University, Columbia University. Taught at Dutchess Community College and led seminars in Japanese language, culture, and customer service for IBM, Siemens, and other corporate clients. Certified ikebana instructor by Ikenobo Ikebana Society of Kyoto, Japan. Author, Hamayuu—Contemporary Tanka Poetry; Tantakatan—Contemporary Tanka Poetry and Essays. (2002– ) Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese.
Sanjib Baruah B.A., Cotton College, Gauhati, India; M.A., University of Delhi, India; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Publications include Postfrontier Blues: Toward a New Policy Framework for Northeast India (Washington, D.C.: East-West Center, 2007); Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India (Oxford University Press, 2005); India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality (1999); and articles and reviews in academic journals. Writes regularly for newspapers and magazines in South Asia. Concurrent appointment: Honorary Professor, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi, India. (1983– ) Professor of Political Studies.
Robert J. Culp B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University. Grants from National Endowment for the Humanities, Spencer Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Committee for Scholarly Communication with China. Articles and reviews in Modern China, Twentieth-Century China, and Journal of Asian Studies. (1999– ) Associate Professor of History.
Richard H. Davis B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Assistant and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University (1987–97). Publications: Lives of Indian Images (1997; winner of 1999 A. K. Coomaraswamy Prize); Ritual in an Oscillating Universe: Worshiping Siva in Medieval India (1991). Edited volumes: Images, Miracles, and Authority in Asian Religious Traditions (1998); Picturing the Nation: Iconographies of Modern India (2006). Articles in History and Anthropology, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Ritual Studies, Journal of Oriental Research, History of Religions, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Education about Asia, other journals. Fellowships include Guggenheim, Fulbright-Hays, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities. (1997– ) Professor of Religion.
Sanjaya DeSilva B.A., Macalester College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University. Postdoctoral research, Economic Growth Center, Yale University (2000–01). Honors and awards include Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship, Ford Foundation research grants, and Yale University fellowships. Publications include Yale University Economic Growth Center discussion papers “Skills, Partnerships and Tenancy in Sri Lankan Rice Farms” and “Supervision and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Rice Farms in Bicol, the Philippines.” Specialization in economics of development, applied microeconomics, and international economics. Faculty, Bard Center for Environmental Policy. (2000– ) Assistant Professor of Economics.
Mercedes Dujunco B.M., University of the Philippines; Ph.D., University of Washington; also postgraduate studies at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Ethnomusicologist; specializes in traditional and popular music of China, Vietnam, and Chinese diasporic communities of Southeast Asia. First prize, Piano Competitions, Category C, National Music Competitions for Young Artists, Manila (1982). Recipient, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Alberta (1996–98); Boeing Award for academic excellence, University of Washington. Has taught and conducted research at New York University and University of Alberta. (2005– ) Associate Professor of Music.
Patricia Karetzky B.A., New York University; M.A., Hunter College; Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Adjunct professor, Lehman College, CUNY. Publications include The Life of the Buddha; Court Art of the Tang; Early Buddhist Narratives (2000); contributions to Artibus Asiae, T’ang Studies, Oriental Art, others. Editor, Journal of Chinese Religions. Curator, Art of the Twentieth Century and Traditional Chinese Literary Culture (1998), Lehman College Art Gallery and Bard College; Confessions: The Contemporary Art of Asian Women (2001), Hammond Art Gallery. (1988– ) Oskar Munsterberg Lecturer in Art History.
Laura Kunreuther B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Extensive on-site research in Kathmandu. Awards include Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, NMERTA South Asia Fellowships (2). Author of numerous articles and conference presentations. (2001– ) Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Hoyt J. Long B.A., University of Oregon; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Specialization in modern Japanese literature. Taught Japanese language and literature at University of Michigan (2001–03). Recipient, IIE Fulbright Fellowship (2003–04); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ABD Fellowship (2004–05). Article in Japanimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life. (2007– ) Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature.
Kristin Scheible B.A., Colby College; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Harvard University. Area of expertise is Buddhism of South and Southeast Asia, specifically Theravada Buddhism; work focuses on the genre of historical narrative literature (vamsas) in the Pali language. Senior Teaching Fellow, Harvard University (1997–2002), where she received Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning Award each time she taught; lecturer, Brown University (2003). (2003– ) Assistant Professor of Religion.
Yuka Suzuki B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Yale University. Awards include Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Grant (1998–99); Wenner-Gren Foundation Predoctoral Research Grant (1998–99). Author, “Drifting Rhinos and Fluid Properties: The Turn to Wildlife Production in Zimbabwe” (Journal of Agrarian Change); coeditor, “Zimbabwe: The Politics of Crisis and the Crisis of Politics.” Teaching experience at Georgetown University (2001–02), Yale University, Quinnipiac University. (2003– ) Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Li-Hua Ying B.A., Yunnan Normal University, China; M.A., Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin. Instructor of Chinese, Southwestern University (1988–90). Executive director, Calligraphy Education (2002– ). (1998– ) Associate Professor of Chinese.
Ian Buruma Studies in Chinese literature and history at Leyden University; graduate studies in Japanese cinema at Nihon University, Tokyo. Documentary filmmaker and photographer in Tokyo (1977–80); cultural editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong (1983–86); foreign editor of The Spectator, London (1990–91). Fellowships: Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin (1991–92); Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. (1998–99); Alistair Horne Visiting Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford (1999–2000). Regular contributor to New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, New Yorker, and The Guardian. Books include Behind the Mask (1983); God’s Dust (1988); Playing the Game (1990); The Wages of Guilt (1995); The Missionary and the Libertine (1997); Anglomania: A European Love Affair (1999); Bad Elements (2001); Inventing Japan: 1853–1964 (2003); Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (2006). Coauthor, Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies (2004). (2003– ) Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism.
Benjamin La Farge B.A., Harvard College; graduate study, Balliol College, Oxford University. Editorial experience at magazines and book publishers in Boston and New York (1957–67), including senior editor, Signet Classics. Poems in New Republic and other journals. Essays on comedy (2004) and romance (2009) in Philosophy and Literature. Articles on Irish fiction writer William Trevor and Irish poet Richard Murphy in British Writers, Supplement IV (1997) and Supplement V (1999); and American author John Jay Chapman as poet (1993) and moralist (1998) in Hudson Valley Regional Review. (1968– ) Professor of English.
Chiori Miyagawa M.F.A., CUNY Brooklyn College. Playwright and dramaturg. Plays produced Off-Broadway and nationally. Seven plays published in various anthologies. Playwriting fellowships: New York Foundation for the Arts, Van Lier, McNight. Recipient: Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Rockefeller Bellagio Residency,Critic Beinecke Playwright-in-Residence at Yale School of Drama, Rockefeller Multi-Arts Production Fund (twice), Asian Cultural Council Fellowship. Resident playwright, New Dramatists. Coartistic director, Crossing Jamaica Avenue, a New York–based theater company; board member, ART/N.Y. (1999– ) Playwright in Residence.
William Mullen B.A., Harvard College; Ph.D., University of Texas. Professor at University of California, Berkeley; Boston University; St. John’s College. Specializations: Greek poetry, classical tradition, China/India/Greece, ancient athletics, public speaking. Publications include Choreia: Pindar and Dance (Princeton, 1982); articles on Greek poetry, pre-Socratic philosophy, American founders’ engagement with Rome, Nietzsche; op eds and reviews in New York Sun; translations and poetry, including “Enchanted Rock” in Best American Poems of 1998. Dramaturg, The Songs of Sappho. Has led West Point–Bard joint seminars since 1985; has worked with survivors of combat trauma and juvenile delinquents; has done public speaking in prisons. (1985– ) Professor of Classics.
Yuka Suzuki B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Yale University. Awards include Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Grant (1998–99); Wenner-Gren Foundation Predoctoral Research Grant (1998–99). Author, “Drifting Rhinos and Fluid Properties: The Turn to Wildlife Production in Zimbabwe” (Journal of Agrarian Change); coeditor, “Zimbabwe: The Politics of Crisis and the Crisis of Politics.” Teaching experience at Georgetown University (2001–02), Yale University, Quinnipiac University. (2003– ) Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Richard Teitelbaum B.A., Haverford College; M.M., School of Music, Yale University. Composer and performer noted for live electronic and interactive computer music. Founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Alvin Curran, of Musica Elettronica Viva, Rome, 1966. Compositions for shakuhachi master Katsuya Yokoyama; pianists Aki Takahashi and Ursula Oppens; multimedia works with Nam June Paik, Joan Jonas, others. Works performed at Pompidou Center, Paris; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Almeida Theatre, London; Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. Recordings include Blends; Golem: An Interactive Opera; Live at Merkin Hall: Duets with Anthony Braxton, Concerto Grosso; others. Awards: Prix Ars Electronica from Austrian Radio and Television (1987); commissions from Fromm Music Foundation (2004), Venice Biennale, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation; Fulbright grants to Italy and Japan. Received Guggenheim fellowship in 2002 to create opera, Z’vi, excerpts of which were performed at opening of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. (1988– )
Hap Tivey B.A., Pomona College; M.A., M.F.A., Claremont Graduate School. Monastic practice: Hofuku-ji and Tofuku-ji, Japan. Solo exhibitions include Blum Helman, Diane Brown, New York; Elizabeth Leach, Portland, Oregon; Landau-Alexander, Margo Leavin, Los Angeles; Picasso Studio, Paris. Collections include Dia Center for the Arts; Guggenheim Museum, New York and Bilbao; Museum of Modern Art and P.S. 1, New York; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; AT&T, Prudential, Federal Reserve, and Bank of America collections. Awards include National Endowment for the Arts, National Science Foundation, Lockheed, and other fellowships. Publications include The Art of Light and Space, Shift L.A./N.Y., Rooms P.S. 1, Artforum, Art in America, Art News. (1995– ) Artist in Residence. |