|
2007 - 2008
Biographies
Kathleen
Bauer,
PhD, RD is a
Professor of
Nutrition and
coordinator of
the Nutrition
and Food Science
major at
Montclair State
University.
Currently she is
involved in
several cultural
and academic
research
projects
regarding
psychosocial
factors related
to obesity among
Chinese-Americans,
methodology for
gaining cultural
competence,
counseling
individuals with
aphasia, and
evaluation of
the new
MyPyramid. Her
most recent
publications
include a text
book on
nutrition
counseling,
Basic Nutrition
Counseling Skill
Development,
and chapters for
books on
psychosocial
models related
to obesity and
gaining cultural
competence in
community
nutrition. Dr.
Bauer’s applied
experience
includes
directing a
nutrition
counseling
clinic,
developing
wellness
programs for
fitness centers
and corporations
and consulting
for nursing
homes. Honors
include American
Dietetic
Association 2002
Outstanding
Dietetic
Educator for
Area VII and the
Gallo Award for
Outstanding
Cancer Research
from the Cancer
Institute of New
Jersey.
Anindya
Bhattacharya
is an Associate
Professor of
Business in the
Department of
Economics at
Brooklyn College
of the City
University of
New York. He is
also an Adjunct
Professor of
International
Business at the
Stern School of
Business, New
York
University. He
holds a B.A.
from Cambridge
University and a
Ph.D. from
Columbia
University.
Professor
Bhattacharya’s
research has
focused on the
Asian Dollar
Market, the
Asian Financial
Crisis, and
Outsourcing to
Asia. Professor
Bhattacharya has
published
several books
such as The
Asian Dollar
Market and
numerous
articles in a
variety of
scholarly
journals,
including
International
Journal of
Business
Research,
Journal of
International
Selling and
Sales
Management, Asia
Pacific Business
Review, and
Journal of
International
Business
Studies.
Professor Bhattacharya has extensive experience teaching International
Business,
Management,
Marketing,
Finance and
Economics at the
MBA and BBA
levels. In
addition, he has
U.S. Government
experience,
having worked
for the General
Accounting
Office (GAO) for
more than a
decade. He has
served as a
Consultant to
the United
Nations in New
York and
Bangkok. He is
a
frequently-invited
speaker at
national and
international
conferences. He
is fluent in
several foreign
languages and
has extensive
overseas living
experience.
Clarence Chan
PT, DPT is a
licensed
physical
therapist,
certified
personal
trainer, and a
martial arts
instructor. He
is an assistant
professor in the
Natural and
Applied Sciences
Department at
LaGuardia
Community
College, CUNY.
He has been in
clinical
practice since
1989 in
hospital,
pediatric, long
term care, home
health care, and
private practice
settings. He
received his
Doctor of
Physical Therapy
from Creighton
University in
Omaha, NE.
Having been in
practice for
over 16 years,
he has extensive
experience in
acutherapy,
electrotherapy,
pain management,
functional/performance
retraining, and
movement
science.
Dr. Chan is an
active member of
the American
Physical Therapy
Association (APTA)
and a committee
member of the
Minority Affairs
Committee of
NYPTA. He also
held a current
position as the
District
Treasurer for
the New York
Chapter. This
position enables
him to serve as
the delegate to
the New York
Chapter and the
National House
of Delegate.
Dr. Chan is also
actively
teaching the
various concepts
of martial arts
training in the
YMCA-Beacon
Center in NYC
Chinatown.
Hanson Chan,
writer of
Chinese novels
and screenplays,
was born in
Taishan,
Kwongtung,
China. He grew
up in Hong Kong,
received his
Bachelor of Arts
in History from
the University
of Maryland and
his Master’s in
Asian Studies
from Seton Hall
University. He
was a reporter,
editor, and
feature
columnist for
Chinese
newspapers in
Hong Kong and
New York City
(deputy
editor-in-chief
1977-1985,
China Daily News,
USA;
editor-in-chief
1985-1986,
The China Post,
USA). He is
credited and
known for his
martial arts
screenplays: “Swordsman
II”, “Once
Upon a Time in
China II”
(both played by
Jet Li), and a
Chinatown gang
novel titled, “The
City of Knife”.
“Hua Hu”
is Hanson Chan’s
first of a
series of action
novels on
Chinese martial
arts. Hua Hu,
Book I: The
Forbidden
Scripture;
and Hua Hu,
Book II: The
Thunder Spell
have been
simultaneously
published in
English and
Chinese.
He lives with
his wife, Lan,
in the Pocono
Mountains in
Pennsylvania.
URL:
www.hansonchan.com
Nehru E.
Cherukupalli
(a.k.a. C.E.
Nehru) is
Professor of
Geology at
Brooklyn
College, CUNY.
He hails from
South India, had
his schooling in
Madras, India,
and earned a
Ph.D. in geology
from Madras
University. He
also has a
Master’s degree
from Columbia
University, New
York. He has
been teaching at
Brooklyn
College, City
University of
New York for
over four
decades and has
been the past
Chairman of the
Geology
Department. He
served as the
Interim
Executive
Director of the
Asian
American/Asian
Research
Institute of
CUNY during
2006-2007. He
has field
experience in
many places in
India and in the
United States
and Canada. He
has worked in
mining
operations in
copper and iron
ore mines in
India. He has
also worked on
Moon rocks and
he works on
Meteorites and
is a Research
Associate at the
American Museum
of Natural
History in New
York. He has
considerable
experience in
teaching all
levels of
students at
Brooklyn College
and at the
Graduate Center
of the City
University of
New York.
Dawa Cairen
is an
associate
professor at
China Tibetology
Research Center.
Prof. Cairen
graduated from
Northwest
Minority
University with
B.A. in Tibetan
language. He
entered Hong
Kong Baptist
University and
received his
M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees in
political
science. Prof.
Cairen’s work
focused on
Tibetan
Buddhism, and
his books and
articles were
published in
Chinese and
Tibetan in
China.
Annette
Danto
is a Professor
of Film,
Television and
Radio at
Brooklyn
College, CUNY.
In addition to
teaching courses
on film and
television
production, she
is the program
director for
CUNY's Study
Abroad India:
Documentary
Production
course in
collaboration
with the Prasad
Film &
Television
Academy in
Chennai, Tamil
Nadu. Danto is
the president of
Friends of
Fulbright to
India, a
non-profit
organization
dedicated to
promoting
educational
exchange between
India and the
United States.
Danto
has directed
over 18 films
and videos, both
fiction and
documentaries.
She was awarded
a Fulbright
Senior Scholar
Research Grant
in 2002 and a
Fulbright
Specialist’s
Grant in 2004. As a Fulbright
Scholar at the Gandhigram Rural
Institute, Tamil
Nadu, S. India,
she filmed
The Never
Ending Path
(2005),
A Daughter's
Letter
(2003),
Listen to a
Story
(2003)
and
Sowabaghya Illam
(2004).
Several
of these films
were created
collaboratively
with the
Gandhigram Rural
Institute to be
used for
community
outreach
campaigns
addressing
girls’
education,
health care, and
environmental
topics. She has
also directed
films for
Pathfinder
International,
Shanti’s
Story
(2004) and for
the United
Nations
Development Fund
for Women
Shea Nut
Gatherers of
Burkina Faso
(2001).
Deji Droma
was born in the
Ado Tibetan area
of QingHai
province, and is
currently an
Associate
Professor at the
Institute of
China Tibetology
Research Center.
She is also a
Fellowship
Professor at the
Buddhism
Research Center
of Academy of
Social Sciences
of China, and
the Institute of
Buddhism Culture
Research in
Bejing, and
Deji obtained her
Bachelor’s
degree in
Tibetan language
and literature,
and Master’s
Degree in
Tibetan ancient
classic
literature from
Northwest
Nationality
University. She
has worked as a
reporter, editor
and translator
at the Qinghai
Tibetan News
Daily, and as an
Associate
Professor at the
Institute of
World Religions,
and graduate
school at the
Academy of
Social Sciences
of China . She
has also served
as vice-director
of the editorial
department at
the Tibet
Academy of
Social Sciences,
and associate
editor in chief
of the "Tibetan
Studies"
(Chinese
edition).
Deji has published
50 pieces of
literature works
and academic
articles in
Tibetan and
Chinese. In
addition, she
has translated
many ancient
codes and
records of
Tibetan
Buddhism. Among
many academy
treatise got
excellent
treatise prize
and second and
third prize and
the outstanding
research fruit
prize. and her
monograph
(book), "The
research of nuns
of Tibetan
Buddhism ", got
second prize of
"The First Woman
research of
China" as a
honor in
December 2004.
Du
Yongbin
is currently a
research fellow
professor at
Contemporary
Institute of
China National
Center for
Tibetan Studies.
Prof. Du
graduated from
Sichuan
University with
B.A. in history
and M.A. in
Tibetan history.
In 1998, he
received Ph.D.
degree in
Tibetan history
from Graduate
School of
Chinese Academy
of Social
Science. Prof.
Du is fluent in
Chinese,
English, Tibetan
and French. In
addition to
Tibetan studies,
his researches
include Tibetan
Buddhism in the
West, the
American
Perceptions of
Tibet, the
America’s Tibet
policy and its
implications for
the Sino-U.S.
Relations,
Tibetan Buddhism
in contemporary
Tibetan areas,
fieldwork and
study on the
harmonious
society of
Tibet. Prof. Du
was the editor
of China’s
Tibetology
Publishing
House. Many of
his books and
articles were
published in
China, and he
also translated
several books
among Chinese,
French, and
English.
Kuang-Yu
Fong
majored in
Chinese Opera at
the Chinese
Cultural
University in
Taiwan. In 1983
she moved to the
United States,
where she
received her MA
in Educational
Theater at New
York University.
She travelled
all over the
United States
and to Belgium,
Germany,
Greece,
Holland, Taiwan,
Korea, Hong Kong
and China. In
1990 Ms. Fong
founded Chinese
Theatre Workshop
(CTW). She has
also been the
artistic
director of the
Gold Mountain
Institute for
Traditional
Shadow Theatre
(GMI) since
1998. In 2001,
the two
companies, GMI
and CTW merged
to form a new
organization,
Chinese Theatre
Works, Inc.
which Ms. Fong
is executive
director and
co-artistic
director.
Some of the
original works
produced by CTW,
which Ms. Fong
conceived,
wrote, directed
and often
performed in as
well include: A
Day at the
Office, Zhang
Boils the Ocean,
Climbing Gold
Mountain, Kasper
as a Banana,
Toy Theatre
Peony Pavilion
(winner of a
2000 UNIMA
Citation of
Excellence in
Puppetry),
Little Red
Riding Hood: the
Chinese Opera ,
Kun/Shadow
Whitesnake,
Border of
Womanhood, Tiger
Tales, (awarded
“best short
play” and “best
vocal
performance” at
the First
International
Shadow Play
Festival,
Tangshan,
China,) Birth of
the Monkey
King, Monkey in
America: Day
Jobs, Opera
Dreams, Three
Women: Many
Plays (awarded
“best directing
and
playwrighting”
at the First
International
Shadow Play
Festival,
Tangshan, China)
and Book of
Songs.
She has been a
guest professor
at the Chinese
Opera Academy
in Beijing. She
has taught in
the Language and
Culture
Department of
Pace University
since 1990. She
is currently
serving as a
member of the
board of
directors of
UNIMA/USA, in
charge of the
“Hands Across
the Sea”
foreign puppetry
cultural
exchange
program. Ms.
Fong has
written many
articles for
Chinese
magazines,
newspapers,
conferences and
for the journal
“Puppetry
International.”
She translated
into Mandarin
Nellie
McCaslin’s book,
“Shows on a
Shoestring”,
which is a
standard text
for educational
theater. With
Stephen Kaplin,
she co-wrote
“Theatre on a
Tabletop:
Puppetry for
Small Space.”
Uwe P.
Gielen
received his
Ph.D. in social
psychology from
Harvard
University in
1976, where he
completed his
dissertation
under the
guidance of the
late Lawrence
Kohlberg. He
has taught at
the City
University of
New York
(1973-1980) and
served as
chairman of the
Psychology
Department of
St. Francis
College, New
York City, from
1980-1990.
Presently he is
professor of
psychology and
executive
director of the
Institute for
International
and
Cross-Cultural
Psychology at
St. Francis
College. He has
also taught at
Shanghai Normal
University and
Padua University
and has lectured
in thirty-one
countries. He
has served as
president of
both the
International
Council of
Psychologists
and the Society
for
Cross-Cultural
Research. A
fellow of both
the American
Psychological
Association
(Divisions 1,
52) and the
American
Psychological
Society, he is
the past chair
of the
Psychology
Section of the
New York Academy
of Sciences. He
has been editor
of two journals,
World
Psychology
and the
International
Journal of Group
Tensions.
His areas of
interest include
moral
development,
international
and
cross-cultural
psychology, and
Tibetan
Buddhism.
Besides having
served as the
editor or
co-editor of
eight special
journal issues
on a wide
variety of
topics in
international
and
cross-cultural
psychology, he
is the
co-editor/co-author
of sixteen books
that have
appeared in four
languages.
Tarry
Hum is
an associate
professor in the
Department of
Urban Studies at
Queens College,
City University
of New York.
She has a PhD in
Urban Planning
from UCLA’s
School of Public
Policy and
Social Research,
and a Masters in
City Planning
from the
Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology. She
was a 2006-2007
William Diaz
Fellow sponsored
by the Nonprofit
Academic Centers
Council. Her
research on
immigration,
economic
development,
ethnic banks,
race relations,
and neighborhood
institutions and
planning has
been published
in various
journals and
books including
the Economic
Development
Quarterly
and AAPI
Nexus.
Linda Susan
Jackson
is an associate
professor and
deputy chair of
the English
Department at
Medgar Evers
College/CUNY who
was selected as
the student
choice award
winner for the
most passionate
professor. A
New York
Foundation for
the Arts fellow
in poetry and a
Cave Canem
fellow, her
first collection
of poetry, What
Yellow Sounds
Like, was a
finalist in the
2006 National
Poetry Series
Open Competition
and was
published by Tia
Chucha Press
this past
Spring. She
also received a
fellowship to
Soul Mountain
Writers Retreat
in Connecticut
and this summer
will be a
teaching fellow
at Frost Place.
She has
published two
chapbooks,
Vitelline Blues
and A History of
Beauty, both
published by
Black-eyed Susan
Publishing.
Most recently,
her poetry has
appeared in
anthologies and
journals,
including
Ringing Ear:
Black Poets Lean
South, Crab
Orchard Review,
Asheville Poetry
Review,
Gathering
Ground,
Heliotrope,
Rivendell,
Warpland and
Brilliant
Corners, among
other journals
and has been
featured on From
the Fishouse
audio archive.
She has read her
poetry in a
variety of
venues,
including The
Schomburg
Center, The
Studio Museum,
The Brooklyn
Public Library,
New York
University,
Asian American
Writers
Workshop, The
New School,
Poets House,
Barnes & Noble,
at Medgar Evers
College and on
WBAI radio,
99.5FM. She is
married and the
mother of one
son.
Gisela
Jia received
her B. A. in
English Language
and Literature
and her M.A. in
Linguistics from
Beijing
University, and
her doctoral
degree in
Developmental
and Cognitive
Psychology from
New York
University. Dr.
Jia is currently
an Associate
Professor in the
Department of
Psychology at
Lehman College,
City University
of New York.
Throughout the
past 12 years,
Dr. Jia has been
conducting
research in
bilingual
language
development
among first and
second
generation
immigrants
speaking
Mandarin,
Cantonese,
Korean, Russian
or Spanish as
their home
language. Her
research has
been funded
consecutively
for six years by
National
Institute of
Health. Her work
has been
published in a
number of
professional
journals, books
and proceedings
read by
psychologists,
linguists,
educators and
speech/language
pathologists.
Dr. Jia has
involved many
graduate and
undergraduate
students, as
well as high
school students
in her research,
most of whom
have
multi-cultural
and
multi-lingual
backgrounds.
She has served
as a consultant
for California
Department of
Education to
develop language
learning
standards for
bilingual
children. She
has offered
seminars to
parents,
teachers and
leaders in Asian
communities,
informing them
of the
scientific
processes of
language
acquisition and
the effective
approaches to
promote
bilingual
language
development.
Kiyoka
Koizumi,
Ph.D., CHES, is
an Assistant
Professor in the
Dept. of Health
and Nutrition
Sciences at
Brooklyn
College, CUNY,
whose teaching
responsibilities
include:
Healthful Aging,
International
Health, U.S.
Health Care
System and
Community Health
Program
Planning. Her
research
interest
includes:
Health of the
elderly in
Japan, Mental
Health care
System in Japan,
Reproductive
Health of
Japanese Women
after the WWII,
and Mental
Health of the
Immigrants in
New York City.
She has been a
member of the
following
professional
organizations:
Society for
Public Health
Education,
American Public
Health
Association,
American
Alliance for
Health
Education,
International
Union for Health
Education, as
well as a member
of the following
community based
non-profit
organizations:
the Aging
Committee of the
Japanese
American
Association of
New York, and
Asian and Asian
American
Research
Institute of New
York.
Joseph
Tse-Hei Lee
is an Associate
Professor of
History at Pace
University. Dr.
Lee earned his
B.A. Honors,
M.A. and Ph.D.
from the
University of
London in
England.
Dr Lee is the
author of The
Bible and the
Gun:
Christianity in
South China,
1860-1900 (New
York and London:
Routledge,
2003). He has
also published
numerous journal
articles and
book chapters on
the church-state
relations in
modern China,
Chinese
diasporas in
Southeast Asia,
and the
Sino-American
relations. His
most recent
publications
include the
following:
● “Watchman Nee
and the Little
Flock Movement
in Maoist
China.” Church
History: Studies
in Christianity
and Culture 74,
no.1 (March
2005): 68-96.
● “Christianity
in Contemporary
China: An
Update.” Journal
of Church and
State 49, no.2
(Spring 2007):
277-304.
● “Christianity
and Chinese
Diaspora in the
Nineteenth
Century.” In
Chinese Diaspora
since Admiral
Zheng He, edited
by Leo
Suryadinata
(Singapore:
Chinese Heritage
Centre, 2007):
247-266.
● “(Coauthored
with Amy Lee)
The Korean
Military Brides
in New York.”
Inter-Asia
Cultural Studies
8, no.3
(September
2007): 458-465
Leona
Lee
is an Assistant
Professor of
Sociology at
John Jay College
of Criminal
Justice, CUNY.
Dr. Lee earned
her Masters
Degree in
criminology from
Cambridge
(England) and
her Ph.D. in
criminal justice
from Rutgers.
She has done
research in the
areas of
juvenile
delinquency,
juvenile
justice, and
court
dispositions,
and has
published in the
Journal of
Criminal Justice,
Journal of
Crime and
Justice,
Juvenile and
Family Court
Journal, and
Youth and
Society. Her
current research
focuses on
mate-selection,
workplace
bullying,
sensation
seeking and
deviance. She is
analyzing the
connection
between
sensation
seeking and
deviance based
on her surveys
in the United
States, England
and Hong Kong.
Ting
Lei grew
up in a
multi-ethnic
environment in
Taiwan, where he
received his
B.S. in
Psychology in
1980. His honors
thesis was based
on his empirical
study of the
socio-moral
reasoning of 53
students who
came from
different SES
and cultural
backgrounds. Lei
earned his M. A.
at the
University of
Minnesota with a
thesis entitled
“The development
of moral,
political, and
legal reasoning
in Chinese
societies” in
1981.
He completed his
doctoral study
with
developmental
psychologist
Lawrence
Kohlberg and
cultural
anthropologist
Robert LeVine at
Harvard
University in
1983. In the
following decade
Lei worked as a
research fellow
with
anthropologists,
sociologists, as
well as
psychologists at
the Institute of
Ethnology at
Academia Sinica.
During that
decade, Lei
participated in
cultural/semiotic
anthropologists’
field research
projects on
aborigines and
minorities which
resulted in
several
documentaries at
the Margaret
Mead Film
Festival. He
also
collaborated
with
sociologists in
a comparative
study of the
value changes of
Chinese
students, and
extended his
initial
explorative
study of
socio-moral
reasoning to a
longitudinal
study that
included 212
participants of
different ages
and ethnicities.
In 1993, Lei was
recruited by
sociologist Alex
Inkeles at
Stanford
University to
join a research
project on the
democratic
reasoning of
Chinese people,
and relocated to
New York, where
he has been
teaching
Developmental
Psychology at
the City
University of
New York and
Cross-cultural
Psychology as
well as
Anthropology at
St. John’s
University. Lei
has been
involved in a
comparative
study that
includes
African-Americans,
Chinese, and
Dominicans, as
well as an
in-depth
research project
headed by Uwe
Gielen on the
adaptation of
Chinese
immigrants in
New York City.
Currently, Lei
is the only
naturalized
citizen serving
on the Steering
Committee
(Advisory Board)
at the New York
Academy of
Sciences. He is
also an
Associate at the
Institute of
International &
Cross-Cultural
Psychology in
St. Francis
College. Lei’s
immediate family
is rainbow in
color, including
children of
Armenian,
Chinese, German,
Jewish, and
Russian
descents.
Doreen
Liou,
Ed.D., R.D., is
currently
associate
professor at
Montclair State
University in
the Department
of Health and
Nutrition
Sciences, where
she teaches
undergraduate
and graduate
courses in
nutrition
education,
social
marketing, and
applied
research. She
is also serving
as director of
the Didactic
Program in
Dietetics for
undergraduate
students
pursuing careers
in the field of
nutrition and
dietetics. Her
research
interests
include
applications of
social
psychological
theories of
health behavior
in Chinese
Americans and
nutrition
education of
minority
populations.
She holds a
doctorate degree
in nutrition
education from
Teachers
College/Columbia
University.
Edward
Ma,
is a NY/NJ
certified
Psychotherapist,
Member of
Manhattan
Community Board
2, and former
New York City
Human Rights
Commissioner.
Mr. Ma received
his diploma in
Psychotherapy
from New York
Medical College,
and MSW from the
University of
Connecticut. He
serves on the
board of the
Chinese American
Planning Council
(CPC), and
provides
consultation for
the Chinese
Community Social
Result Services
and Health
Council, which
is organized by
40 agency
members,
including
Bellevue,
Downtown, and
Gouverneur
Hospitals.
In the promotion
of community
advocacy, with
the support of
friends, Mr. Ma
founded Asian
American
Community
Consultation
Association in
1995,
functioning in
an enabling
facilitating
role to assist
Asian American
community and
their leaders in
building access
to mainstream
resources for
empowerment,
justice and
democracy.
Workshops,
lecture, and
interview by
television and
newspaper are
regularly given
as public
education on
mental health,
parent-child
relationships,
prevention of
family violence,
child/elderly
abuse, etc.
Testimonies have
also been made
in public
hearings, letter
writings and
lobbying for
legislation.
Mr. Ma also
assisted in
founding the
Committee of
Bridging the
Gap No answer
Between ACS and
Asian American
Community in the
prevention of
children remove
from family
tragedy due to
alleged abuse.
Mr. Ma has made
presentations at
conferences by
the American
Society of Group
Psychotherapy
and Psychodrama
in San Francisco
in 2006, and New
York City in
2007. His topic,
Diversity and
Group Coalition
for Peace and
Democracy, is
about how
Chinatown in the
process of
rebuilding
through sharing,
participating,
volunteering and
hearing for
prosperity,
justice,
democracy, and
mainstream.
Recently, Mr. Ma
received special
training in
advocacy (by
Coalition of
Asian American
for Children and
Families), and
How to Run
Public Office in
New York City
(by The League
of Women
Voters). His
philosophy is
learning,
growing, sharing
and healing.
Elizabeth
Meddeb
is Assistant
Professor of ESL
and Humanities
at York
College/CUNY.
She is also
coordinating the
ESL program.
She teaches
advanced
composition
courses to
non-native
speakers of
English, as well
as introductory
courses in
linguistics and
humanities. Her
research
interests
include the
interaction
between
technology and
language use.
She is currently
working on a
research grant
that
investigates how
speech
recognition
dictation
technology
shapes both
spoken and
written language
use for
non-native
speakers of
English. This
study is an
outgrowth of her
dissertation
research at
Columbia
University and
her work
experience at
IBM's TJ Watson
Research Center.
Jaihyun
Park has
received his
B.A. from Seoul
National
University in
Seoul, Korea,
and M.S. and Ph.
D. in social
psychology from
Yale University.
After he
received his Ph.
D. in 1998, he
worked as a
postdoctoral
fellow in the
National
Institutes of
Health. He
joined the
psychology
department at
Baruch College
in September
2001 and he is
now an associate
professor in
psychology.
Dr. Park has
been interested
in several
research areas
in social and
personality
psychology.
Among others, he
has conducted a
program of
research on (a)
stereotyping and
prejudice, (b)
culture and
personality, and
(c) jury
decision-making.
More
specifically,
Dr. Park has
been interested
in investigating
the mental
process and
representations
that affect
social judgment
and behavior,
with a special
focus on the
implicit and
unconscious ways
in which social
category
information
influences our
judgment and
behavior. He has
also been
interested in
exploring the
impact of
culture on human
personality and
behavior.
Lastly, he has
been conducting
research on
psychological
variables that
might affect
jury decision
making in civil
cases.
He is teaching
both
undergraduate
and graduate
courses on
statistics,
psychometrics,
psychology and
culture, and
thesis
alternatives.
His recent
publications
include the
following:
Park, J., Felix,
K., & Lee, G.
(2007). Implicit
attitudes toward
Arab-Muslims and
the moderating
effects of
social
information.
Basic and
Applied Social
Psychology,
29(1),
63-73.
Feigenson , N.,
& Park, J.
(2006) Emotions
and attributions
of legal
responsibility
and blame: A
research review.
Law and Human
Behavior,
30, 143-161.
Park, J. (2005).
Effects of
arousal and
retention
memory: A
meta-analysis.
Psychological
Reports,
97, 339-355.
Bornstein, M.
H., Painter, K.
M., & Park, J.
(2002).
Naturalistic
language
sampling in
typically
developing
children.
Journal of Child
Language,
29, 687-699.
Angela
Reyes is
an Assistant
Professor of
Linguistics in
the English
department at
Hunter College,
The City
University of
New York. Dr.
Reyes received
her Ph.D. from
the University
of Pennsylvania
in 2003.
Dr. Reyes’
primary research
areas are in
linguistic
anthropology,
discourse
analysis, and
Asian American
studies.
Examining the
language
practices of
Asian Americans
and other racial
minorities, her
current work is
interested in
the ways in
which links
between dialects
and ethnic
groups become
established,
disrupted, and
appropriated in
discursive
interaction.
Her book,
Language,
Identity, and
Stereotype among
Southeast Asian
American Youth:
The Other Asian
(2007, Lawrence
Erlbaum), is an
extension of her
award-winning
dissertation,
which was a
four-year
ethnographic and
discourse
analytic study
examining how
Southeast Asian
refugee youth
formed their
identities in
relation to
circulating
stereotypes. Her
work has
appeared in
several academic
journals,
including the
Journal of
Sociolinguistics,
Discourse
Studies, and a
Special Issue of
Pragmatics that
she also
co-edited.
Sankar
Sen
is a Full
Professor of
Marketing at the
Baruch College.
He received his
Ph.D. in
Marketing in
1993 from the
Wharton School,
University of
Pennsylvania.
Prior to joining
Baruch, he was
Associate
Professor of
Marketing and
Washburn
Research Fellow
at Temple
University and,
more recently,
Associate
Professor of
Marketing at
Boston
University. He
has taught
Consumer
Behavior,
Marketing
Management,
Marketing
Research and
Sales Force
Management at
both the
undergraduate
and MBA levels.
His research
examines the
influence of the
social and
temporal context
on consumer
decision making,
and the
individual-specific
moderators of
such these
relationships.
He is also
interested, more
specifically, on
consumer
reactions to coroporate
social
responsibility.
His research has
appeared in the
Journal of
Consumer
Research,
Journal of
Consumer
Psychology,
Journal of
Economic Theory,
Journal of
Marketing
Research and
others.
Yumi
Shindo,
MS, MPA, was
born in Japan
and studies
Human Science,
with a focus on
psychology.
After receiving
her Master's
degree from
Saseda
University, Ms.
Shindo worked at
MATHERTH
Hikawadai, a day
care service
center for frail
elderly in
Tokyo, as a
social worker
and caregiver.
She moved to New
York in 2000,
and started
volunteer work
for the Japanese
and Japanese
American
elderly.
While studying
at the School of
International
and Public
Affairs,
Columbia
University, Ms.
Shindo worked as
an intern at
Global Action on
Aging, NGO under
the U.N.
umbrella as a
research
associate as
well as at the
Japanese
American Social
Service, Inc.,
as a volunteer
coordinator.
After receiving
a M.P.A. degree
from Columbia,
she became a
member of the
Committee on
Aging Issues at
the Japanese
American
Association of
NY Inc., and
conducted a
survey to
address general
characteristics
as well as
assess
perspectives
about aging
issues among the
Japanese and
Japanese
American people
living in NY
area.
Celina
Su
is an Assistant
Professor in the
Department of
Political
Science at
Brooklyn
College, City
University of
New York. She
received a Ph.D.
in Urban Studies
from MIT and a
B.A. from
Wesleyan
University.
Dr. Su's
interests lie in
the role of
civil society in
social policy,
especially in
the interaction
of culture,
grassroots
groups, and
education or
health care
policy-making.
Her most recent
research focused
on five
education
organizing
groups in the
South Bronx
facing the same
political
constraints and
similar funding
levels; it
delineates the
ways in which
cultural norms
help to shape
the groups'
wildly different
political
strategies.
In the past, Dr.
Su has engaged
in other
projects
examining the
role of social
institutions in
policy, at MIT,
the Brookings
Institution, and
the Fred
Hutchinson
Cancer Research
Center. She
currently also
serves as a
Program Officer
for the Burmese
Refugee Project.
Don
Watkins
(PhD, Yale
University),
Professor
Emeritus, School
of Public
Affairs, City
University of
New York/Baruch
College. Board
Member and Vice
President,
United
States-China
Education
Foundation (US-CEF).
Active with
China since
1982. Taught
College
graduates and
directors of
work units for
two summers in
Shanxi Province.
Serves as the
Senior Advisor
and Treasurer of
the Sino-
American
Conferences on
Education
jointly
sponsored since
1985 by Shanxi
and the City
University of
New York. US-CEF
co-founded a
vocational/technical
school and
college in
Sichuan Province
and with a Ford
Foundation
grant,
implemented a
four-year
collaborative
community
College in China
Project. His
forty-year
career as
professor and
administrator in
higher education
includes
participating in
a variety of
international
projects and
programs in
China, India,
Israel, Italy
and Puerto Rico.
He has written
papers and
monographs on
cross-cultural
education,
discrimination
and higher
education. His
current one, on
recent
vocational/technical
and community
college
developments in
China, is
co-authored with
Dr. Gerard Postiglione and
wang Liangjuan,
both at Hong
Kong University.
To be published
in 2007 by the
American
Association of
Community
Colleges as a
Chapter in a
book surveying
“further
education” in
20-22 countries
and regions of
the world.
Allan
Wernick
is a widely
published author
whose book, U.S.
Immigration and
Citizenship -
Your Complete
Guide, Revised
4th Edition, is
the leading
popular guide on
the topic of
immigration. He
is professor at
Baruch College,
CUNY and has
taught as a
visiting
professor in
Chicana/o
Studies at UCLA.
His weekly
column,
Immigration and
Citizenship
is syndicated by
King Features
Syndicate, and
his column
Immigration
Advice
appears every
Thursday in the
New York Daily
News and every
Tuesday in the
Daily News
Brooklyn, Bronx
and Queens
editions.
Prof. Wernick
currently serves
as Director of
the Citizenship
and
Naturalization
Project of the
City of New York
(CUNY) and
practices law as
of counsel to
the firm of
Glenn Bank in
New York City.
He has served on
the national
Board of
Directors of the
American
Immigration
Lawyers
Association (AILA),
as Chair of the
Immigration
Committee of the
Association of
the Bar of the
City of New
York, and as
President of the
New York Chapter
of AILA.
Wynn
Yamami
is a taiko
drummer,
percussionist,
pianist and
composer. He
trained with Soh
Daiko, Kiyonari
Tosha of the
Nihon Taiko
Dojo, Takada
Yosuke of the
Tokyo Chindon
Club, the
Tachibana School
of Nihon Buyou,
and
ethnomusicologist
Terada
Yoshitaka. Now
based in New
York City, he
has performed
with a wide
variety of
musicians
including Arturo
O'Farrill and
the Lincoln
Center
Afro-Latin Jazz
Ensemble,
Toshiko Akiyoshi,
Badal Roy,
Giovanni
Hidalgo, and
Korn.
Mr. Yamami leads
the experimental
music trio
KIOKU and
the Japanese
street music
group
HAPPYFUNSMILE.
He has taught at
Queensborough
Community
College, New
York University,
Rutgers
University, and
Westminster
Choir College.
Aileen E.
Yamaguchi,
OTR/L, M.P.H.,
is a
Registered/licensed
Occupational
Therapist, and
is currently the
President of the
New York Chapter
of Japanese
American
Citizens League,
one of the
largest Asian
American civil
rights groups
started in 1929,
with 112
Chapters in the
United States
and Japan.
Born and raised
in Central
Valley,
California, Ms.
Yamaguchi
received her
Masters Degree
from the School
of Public Health
at the
University of
Hawaii, and
attended San
Jose State
University for
Occupational
Therapy.
Ms. Yamaguchi
has been a
Psychiatric
Occupational
Therapist for
the past
fifty-years, and
has worked in
the In-Patient
Unit, Day Center
program at St.
Luke's/Roosevelt
Hospitals in New
York City. In
Japan, she
started
Occupational
Therapy Schools
in Tokyo &
Osaka, and was
an
Instructor/Consultant
at the Kyushu
Rehab College.
Ms. Yamaguchi
also serves as a
board member of
the Japanese
American
Association of
New York, and
Senior Program
volunteer.
Julia
Yang
majors in
International
Studies and
Political
Science at the
City College of
New York, CUNY.
She is deeply
involved in
issues related
to immigration,
voting rights,
civic
participation,
and education.
She is the
founder and
director of
Partners in
English, a
program that
matches
English-speaking
volunteers with
limited-English
proficient
students. She
has interned at
the Center for
Law and Social
Justice, the
Center for
American
Progress, and
the Asian
American Legal
Defense and
Education Fund.
Brian
Yeung is
a business
advisor for the
New York State
Small Business
Development
Center and a
adjunct lecturer
at York College.
With over 10
years of
diversified
experience and
expertise in
small businesses
development,
Prof. Yeung
focuses on small
business
counseling,
business plan
development, and
business
financing. Some
of the
entrepreneurs
that Prof. Yeung
assisted include
the 2007 NYS
SBDC Minority
Entrepreneur of
The Year and the
2005 NYS SBDC
Start Up Company
of The Year. His
client also
includes the
2001 Queens
Success Story -
World Trade
Center Disaster
Small Business
Recovery Loan.
Prior to
becoming a
business
advisor, Prof.
Yeung was a loan
officer at the
Abacus Federal
Savings Bank, a
small community
bank in New York
City’s
Chinatown. Prof.
Yeung holds a
M.B.A. in
Computer
Information
System from
Baruch College,
and a B.S. in
Business
Management and
Finance from
Brooklyn
College.
In addition to
his full time
duty as a
business
advisor, Prof.
Yeung has been
teaching as an
adjunct lecturer
for the past
three years. He
teaches a class
in business
management and
one for
marketing at the
York College
Accounting and
Business
Department in
Jamaica
(Queens), New
York.
Prof. Yeung is a
member of the
Queens Chamber
of Commerce
Minority
Business
Development
Committee. He is
also a Member of
the York College
Parking
Committee, which
makes
recommendations
to improve the
college’s
parking
facilities so
that the college
can provide more
educational
opportunities
and services to
the college
community.
Zhou Wei
was born in
Shagong,
Qamdo of Tibet in 1958. Prof. Zhou Wei is
the Director of
the Institute of
Social and
Economy Studies
in China
Tibetology
Research Center.
Both Sichuan
University and
the Central
University for
Nationalities
invite him as
their part-time
professor. In
1995, he studied
in the Tibetan –
Han Chinese
Language in
Chinese Academy
of Social
Sciences, and
got his
Doctorial of
Arts. From 1997
to 1998, he
studied in the
National Museum
for Ethnic
Groups in Japan.
In 1998-2000, he
engaged in
postdoctoral
studies
in the Sociology
and Anthropology
Department of
Beijing
University.
Professor Zhou's
main research
areas include
national
linguistics,
social
linguistics, and
Tibetan studies.
His publication
of "
The
Individuality of
Tibetan Culture
" (1997),
"Grammatical Features and Comparison
Studies on the
Biography of
Milarepa"
(2000), "Tibet's
language and
society"
(2002), "the
Tibetan language
work in Tibet"
(2004),
over 20 of the
academic works.
|
