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2005 - 2006
Biographies
Terry Axe
is Associate
Director for
TOEFL Client
Relations within
the Higher
Education
Division at
Educational
Testing Service
in Princeton,
New Jersey.
Terry has been
with ETS for 18
years and began
her career
working with the
Advanced
Placement and
PSAT/NMSQT
programs. For
the past 9
years, Terry has
worked with the
TOEFL program on
a variety of
communication
and outreach
activities. In
this capacity,
she has worked
with many
international
educator groups,
including
guidance
counselors,
overseas
representatives
and educational
advisors, and
undergraduate
and graduate
admission
directors.
Terry is a
graduate of
Muhlenberg
College,
Allentown,
Pennsylvania,
and has a degree
in French and
Elementary
Education. Prior
to working at
ETS, she was a
teacher in Nova
Scotia, Canada,
and in
Pennsylvania.
Andrew A.
Beveridge,
Ph.D., is
Professor of
Sociology at
Queens College
and the Graduate
School and
University
Center of the
City University
of New York. He
directs the
Social Research
Office and M.A.
in Applied
Social Research
Program in the
Sociology
Department.
Since 1993, Dr.
Beveridge has
been a
consultant to
the New York
Times, which has
published a
series of news
reports and maps
based upon his
analysis of the
Census data. He
writes the
demographic
topic column for
the Gotham
Gazette, an
on-line
publication of
the Citizens
Union. He and
his team
developed
SocialExplorer a
web based
application,
which allows
users to explore
demographic
trends in any
area of the
United States,
easily creating
maps and
comparative
reports.
He has examined
the social roots
of American
banking and
credit
practices;
public attitudes
towards science
and technology;
factors leading
to union success
in winning
representation
elections;
social trends
revealed by
housing surveys;
and economic
development in
Africa. He is
the co-author of
African
Businessmen and
Development in
Zambia,
published by
Princeton
University
Press, and
numerous
articles, papers
and reports.
He has consulted
in numerous
civil rights
cases with the
Connecticut
Civil Liberties
Union, the ACLU
of Maryland, the
Open Housing
Center of New
York City,
Westchester
Legal Services,
the Center for
Constitutional
Rights, the
Capital
Defenders
Office, Davis
Polk, and
Sullivan and
Cromwell among
others. He has
consulted for
Time Warner
Cable of New
York, the
Newspaper
Association of
America, and
other business
firms.
He has applied
computer methods
to teaching and
research in
sociology,
including
statistical
analysis,
geographic
information
systems, and
multi-media.
These activities
have received
support from IBM
and repeated
support from the
National Science
Foundation.
Most recently,
he has developed
an interactive
application and
Web Based set of
maps that allow
the user to
compare and
contrast
demography based
upon an area
that he or she
selects. This
work was funded
by the National
Science
Foundation and
the New York
Times.
He has taught in
the Sociology
Department of
Columbia
University. He
received his
Ph.D. and M.Phil.
in sociology
from Yale
University and
his B.A with
honors in
economics from
Yale College.
His research
work has
received grant
and fellowship
support from the
American Council
of Learned
Societies, the
National Science
Foundation, the
National
Endowment for
the Humanities,
the American
Philosophical
Society, the
Department of
Housing and
Urban
Development, the
Putnam
Foundation, the
Robert Wood
Johnson
Foundation and
other agencies.
Anindya
Bhattacharya
is an Associate
Professor of
Business in the
Department of
Economics at
Brooklyn College
of the City
University of
New York. He
holds a B.A.
from Cambridge
University and a
Ph.D. from
Columbia
University.
Prof.
Bhattacharya’s
research has
focused on the
Asian Dollar
Market, the
Asian Financial
Crisis, and
Outsourcing to
Asia. He 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.
Prof. Bhattacharya has extensive
experience
teaching
International
Business,
Management and
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.
Mehdi
Bozorgmehr
is Associate
Professor of
Sociology and
the founding
Co-Director of
the Middle East
and Middle
Eastern American
Center (MEMEAC)
at the Graduate
Center, CUNY.
He received his
Ph.D. from the
University of
California at
Los Angeles
(UCLA). He is a
specialist in
immigration and
ethnic studies,
with a focus on
the Middle
Eastern American
experience. He
has published
extensively on
these topics and
groups, and is
completing a
book about the
impact of the
backlash from
9/11 on Middle
Eastern and
South Asian
Americans.
Bozorgmehr has
received
research grants
from the
National
Science, Russell
Sage, Mellon,
and Sloan
Foundations, as
well as
institutional
grants for
MEMEAC from the
Ford Foundation
and the U.S.
Department of
Education.
Uradyn Bulag
is Associate
Professor of
Anthropology at
Hunter College
and the Graduate
Center of the
City University
of New York. He
is the author of
/Nationalism and
Hybridity in
Mongolia/
(Clarendon Press
1998) and /The
Mongols at
China's Edge:
History and the
Politics of
National Unity/
(Rowman and
Littlefield
2002).
Joanne Chang,
ED.D.
is a
New York based
classical
pianist
who
has performed
worldwide on
four continents
as a recitalist,
soloist with
orchestras, and
in various
chamber music
ensembles. In
1995, she gave
her recital
debut in
Australia, and
subsequently
performed in Die
Stiftung
Schleswig-Holstein
Musik Festival
in Germany, and
in New York's
Carnegie Weill
Recital Hall.
Dr. Chang has
also established
herself as an
interdisciplinary
researcher
(music and
psychology), in
which she has
several
publications.
In addition to
concert
performances and
publications,
Dr. Chang is a
multiple grant
award winner:
two times PSC-CUNY
Grant, two times
G. Shuster
Fellowship and
two times Travel
Award from the
State of New
York.
Dr. Chang
received her
undergraduate
degree from
Queensland
Conservatorium
of Music, her
Master's degree
from the
Manhattan School
of Music, and
her Doctoral
degree from
Columbia
University. She
is currently
teaching at
Lehman College,
The City
University of
New York as
Assistant
Professor.
Der-lin Chao
is an Associate
Professor at
Hunter College,
CUNY. Dr. Chao
obtained his
M.A. in
Linguistics from
Fu-Jen
University,
M.Ed. in TESOL
from Teachers
College,
Columbia
University, and
Ph.D. in Applied
Linguistics from
New York
University.
Since 1981, he
has been
teaching Chinese
as a foreign
language at
various
institutions,
including:
Stanford Center
in Taipei;
Mandarin
Training Center
of Taiwan
National Normal
University;
Princeton
University;
Connecticut
College; Oberlin
College; and
Rutgers
University.
Dr. Chao has
served on the
advisory
committees
(Guidelines and
Standards,
Content, and
Bias Review) for
two New York
Department of
Education
foreign language
teacher
certification
examinations
(Mandarin
Chinese and
Gifted and
Talented
Programs). He
has also served
as the director
of the
Oberlin-in-China
program, and is
a co-founder of
the ACC
(Associated
Colleges in
China) program.
Dr. Chao has
compiled
language
textbooks on the
intermediate-level
(Intermediate
Reader of Modern
Chinese and
A Trip to
China) and
advanced-level (Advanced
Reader of Modern
Chinese and
Selections of
Lu Xun Essays),
as well as two
manuals to help
students learn
Chinese by
studying the
films To Live
and Spring
Festival.
Dr. Chao’s
professional
interests
include second
language
acquisition,
teaching and
learning
theories and
practice,
teacher
training, and
the designing of
technology-based
materials to
help students
(Western and
heritage
background) at
different age
levels overcome
learning
difficulties
that traditional
teaching methods
cannot address.
His current
research project
is a
reconstruction
of the history
of Chinese
language
instruction in
the U.S. in the
19th
century. In
addition, he has
been working on
the Chinese
Literacy
Development
Project, which
currently
focuses on
creating new
approaches for
teaching and
learning both
characters. The
Project’s
ultimate aim is
to use Web-based
and multimedia
instructional
materials to
help students
achieve literacy
in Chinese more
effectively.
Sheau-yueh (Janey)
Chao
is a librarian
and Head of
Cataloging at
Baruch College,
CUNY. Prof.
Chao graduated
from the
University of
Wisconsin in
Madison, with a
Master’s degree
in Library and
Information
Science, and
earned her
second Master’s
in Computer
Science from the
New York
Institute of
Technology.
Professor Chao
has published
extensively in
the areas of
Asian studies,
Chinese
genealogy,
library services
to the
multicultural
populations, and
Overseas Chinese
studies with
numerous
articles and
books. She has
published three
books, including
her recent one
on Chinese
genealogies with
the title: In
Search of Your
Asian Roots:
Genealogical
Research on
Chinese Surnames,
published in
2000 by the
Clearfield
Company. She
was an invited
speaker in
American Library
Association’s
Annual Program
in 2001 on the
topic of Chinese
genealogical
research to
international
librarians and
scholars around
the world. She
has also
presented papers
in both the
First and Second
International
Conference of
Institutes and
Libraries for
Overseas Chinese
Studies held in
Ohio and Hong
Kong. In Spring
2004, she was
invited to speak
at Chinese
American
Librarians
Association’s
Annual Meeting
held in Queens
Borough Public
Library in
Flushing, New
York on the
topic of
Research and
Documentation on
Chinese
Genealogical
Research.
Presently, Prof.
Chao has been
concentrating on
her research
studies in
Shanghai Library
which was
supported by the
PSC-CUNY Award
research grant,
and is now
writing the book
called:
Chinese
Genealogical
Research: An
Annotated Guide
to Chinese
Surnames. The
recent work is a
continuation
from her
previous one
published in
2000 that will
document and
index
extensively all
the existing and
available
Chinese
genealogical
resources for
international
readership in
mind. The book
will be written
in bilingual
format of
English and
Chinese and to
be expected for
publication in
the Fall of
2006. Her
recent paper,
entitled:
Sources on
Overseas Chinese
Studies:
Genealogical
Records will
be delivered at
the Third
International
Conference of
Institutes &
Libraries for
Chinese Overseas
Studies, August
2005, in
Singapore.
Wellington
Z. Chen is a
member of the
CUNY Board of
Trustees, and
was recently
been reappointed
by New York
State Governor
George E.
Pataki, to serve
another five
years.
Trustee Chen, a
resident of
Queens and a
long-time
community
leader,
graduated from
the School of
Architecture and
Environmental
Studies at City
College. He was
the first
Chinese American
in Queens to
serve on a
community
planning board,
where he chaired
the cultural
affairs,
housing,
landmarks,
planning and
zoning
committees and
helped to bring
about the
revival of
downtown
Flushing.
More recently,
Trustee Chen was
a Commissioner
of the New York
City Board of
Standards and
Appeals which
reviews zoning
variances,
special permits,
and other land
use appeals. A
planning,
design, and land
use consultant,
Trustee Chen is
senior vice
president at the
TDC Development
Corporation, a
real estate
company in
Queens.
Eva Chou
is an Associate
Professor of
English at
Baruch College,
CUNY. Professor
Chou has
published many
articles on both
modern and
classical
Chinese literary
topics. Her
monograph on the
eighth-century
classical poet
Du Fu was
published by
Cambridge
University
Press.
Joseph W.
Dauben
is Distinguished
Professor of
History and the
History of
Science at
Herbert H.
Lehman College
and a member of
the Ph.D.
Program in
History at the
Graduate Center
of the City
University of
New York. He is
a fellow of the
New York Academy
of Sciences, a
membre
effectif of
the
International
Academy of
History of
Science, and a
corresponding
member of the
German Academy
of Sciences
Leopoldina. He
has been editor
of Historia
Mathematica,
an international
journal for the
history of
mathematics, and
chairman of the
International
Commission on
the History of
Mathematics. He
is the author of
Georg Cantor,
His Mathematics
and Philosophy
of the Infinite
and Abraham
Robinson: The
Creation of
Nonstandard
Analysis, a
Personal and
Mathematical
Odyssey. A
graduate of
Claremont
McKenna College
(A.B.) and
Harvard
University
(A.M., Ph.D.),
Dauben has been
a member of the
Institute for
Advanced Study
(Princeton) and
Clare Hall
(Cambridge), won
a Guggenheim
Fellowship and a
Senior ACLS
Fellowship, and
was named
Outstanding
Teacher of the
Year at Lehman
College in
1986. He is an
honorary member
of the Institute
for History of
Natural Science
of the Chinese
Academy of
Sciences, where
he was the Zhu
Kezhen Visiting
Professor in
spring of 2005.
Danian Hu
is an Assistant
Professor for
the History
Department and
Asian Studies
Program at the
City College of
New York, CUNY.
Dr. Hu was
educated in
Beijing Jiaotong
University, the
Chinese Academy
of Sciences, and
Case Western
Reserve
University
before he
received his
Ph.D. from Yale
University in
2001,
specializing in
the history of
science and
modern Chinese
history.
Dr. Hu has
taught at the
University of
Massachusetts-Amherst
and Morgan State
University
successively
before joining
the City College
of New York. At
City College, he
teaches Einstein
and His World,
East Asian
science and
technology,
Nuclear Weapons
Programs in
Asia, History of
the Cultural
Revolution,
Chinese
Civilization,
and World
Civilization.
He is also
member of the
History of
Science Society,
American
Physical
Society, and
Chinese
Association of
the History of
Science and
Technology.
Dr. Hu’s current
research
interests
include the
history of
modern physics,
the history of
science and
technology in
modern China,
and scientific
exchanges
between China
and Japan, China
and the West in
the 20th
century. His
first book,
China and Albert
Einstein,
has been
published in
March 2005 by
Harvard
University
Press.
Kelly Y.
Jeong is an
Assistant
Professor of
English at John
Jay College of
Criminal
Justice. She
earned her MA
and Ph.D. in
Comparative
Literature at
the University
of California,
Los Angeles.
Her teaching and
research
interests are
modern Korean
literature and
film, popular
culture, and
postcolonial
studies. She is
currently
working on a
book about
modernity,
gender, and
nationalism in
modern Korean
literature and
film.
Frank
Kehl
is President
of US-CX inc,
United
States-China
Exchanges, a
consulting
company that
deals in
international
training. Dr.
Kehl speaks
fluent
Cantonese and
Putonghua
(Mandarin).
Previously, he
spent two
years living
among and
studying
mostly working
class
squatters in a
Hong Kong
shantytown.
He was one of
the founding
organizers of
the CUNY-
Shanxi
Education
Commission
exchange which
will enter its
21st
year and 11th
conference
cycle in June
2006. The
focus of his
group in the
exchange has
been on worker
(re)training.
Before his
retirement
from CUNY, he
was Associate
Director,
Weissman
Center for
International
Business,
Baruch, where
he helped
train scores
of managers in
many
industries
from all over
China. Since
then he
co-directed
the Community
Colleges in
China Project,
a Ford
Foundation-funded
program of the
US-China
Education
Foundation,
and will train
the third
cohort of
bankers from
the China
Huarong Asset
Management
Corporation
this November.
Jean Kim
is a pianist,
educator and
choral
conductor
free-lancing
in the
boroughs of
New York City.
She holds
degrees from
the University
of Western
Ontario and
the Manhattan
School of
Music and is
finishing her
doctorate from
the University
of Cincinnati.
Her teachers
include James
Tocco and the
late Constance
Keene. Her
chamber
coaches have
included
Lawrence
Lesser, Sylvia
Rosenberg and
Isidore Cohen
of the Beaux
Arts Trio. She
has performed
as a chamber
pianist in
Europe and
throughout
Canada and the
United States.
Her piano
trio, Trio
Dionysus made
their New York
Recital Debut
at Carnegie
Recital Hall
with American
composer Ned
Rorem in
attendance to
hear his work.
Last summer
she performed
in a
contemporary
music workshop
for Eighth
Blackbird and
Frederic
Rzewski. As a
soloist she
was invited to
play at the
Seoul National
Arts Center
with the Seoul
Symphony
Orchestra in
South Korea.
In addition to
her dedication
to music, Jean
is studying
music that
accompanies
silent films.
Her
dissertation
will focus on
the
relationship
between music
and film as
she continues
to develop her
skills as an
improvisational
player. Jean
has joined as
adjunct
lecturer of
music at
Borough of
Manhattan
Community
College, the
City
University of
New York since
beginning of
this year.
Kui-Lam Kwok, a Professor of
Computer Science
at Queens
College, got his
B.Sc. from Hong
Kong University
and Ph.D. from
Manchester
University,
England. His
research
interest is in
Information
Retrieval (IR)
and associated
topics such as
automatic
indexing,
retrieval
models, search
methodologies.
His work also
includes
translation/transliteration
for cross
language
retrieval (CLIR):
i.e. posing
queries in one
language to
search documents
in another – in
particular for
the
English/Chinese
language pair.
IR has been
recognized as an
important
productivity
enhancement tool
since web
searching became
popular in
society, and
CLIR is also
considered
highly
significant for
bridging the
language gap
between peoples.
About a decade and a half ago, the National Institute of
Standards and
Technology (NIST)
has recognized
the importance
of IR, and
designed "blind"
retrieval
environments
called TREC
(Text Retrieval
Conference) for
participants
worldwide to
experiment with
their systems
and algorithms
in order to push
IR technology
forward. "Blind"
means that
before NIST's
evaluation
announcement in
the annual TREC
conference, no
one knows the
retrieval
results. Prof.
Kwok and his
group
participated in
TREC
continuously in
the past years
using his
in-house
developed PIRCS
retrieval
algorithm. New
indexing
techniques and
retrieval
approaches were
researched and
designed. These
led to his
participation
returning top or
near top
automatic
results in many
years among many
well known
groups (see
http://trec.nist.gov).
PIRCS has been
extended to
support Chinese
monolingual
retrieval, which
also won top
submissions in
TREC5 and 6.
In the past five years, the National Institute of Informatics
(NII) at Tokyo
has taken
responsibility
for Asian
language
retrieval from
TREC, and
initiated
similar
conferences
called NTCIR (http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir-ws2
to ws4).
Kwok and his
group also
participated in
the last three
(NTCIR-2 to 4),
studying
translation
techniques and
their influence
on retrieval.
They also
returned top or
near-top results
for Chinese
monolingual and
English/Chinese
CLIR among Asian
participants.
Prof. Kwok's success in IR research and development has
attracted over
$1.5 million
funding by U.S.
government
agencies and
programs since
1992.
Peter
Kwong
is former Director of Asian American Studies Program at
Hunter College
and Professor of
Sociology at the
Graduate Center
of the City
University of
New York. His
research focuses
on the
intersection of
immigration,
labor and racial
issues. Kwong
is known for his
work on Asian
American and
especially
Chinese American
labor concerns.
He is best known
as the author of
Forbidden
Workers: Chinese
Illegal
Immigrants and
American Labor,
The New
Chinatown. Kwong
is also a
regular
contributor to
The Nation and
The Village
Voice, in
addition a
member of the
Board of
Directors
Downtown
Community TV;
and The New
Press; and a
member of the
Board of
Trustees of New
York
Foundation. As
a video
documentary
filmmaker, he is
a recipient of
the CINE Golden
Eagle Award, for
co-producing a
PBS program on
immigration.
Peter
Lin
received his
Ph.D. degree in
Clinical Health
Psychology from
Ferkauf Graduate
School of
Psychology and
Albert Einstein
School of
Medicine,
Yeshiva
University.
Clinical health
psychology is a
clinical
specialty
program. It
trains a
clinical
psychologist who
is mindful about
the body-mind
connection. Dr
Lin’s primary
psychology
training was at
Cornell Medical
College. His
previous
training in
therapeutic
modalities
includes
experiences in
individual and
group
psychotherapy,
both brief and
long-term
interventions.
Throughout his
clinical
trainings, he
has worked with
children, young
adults, adults,
and elderly.
Currently Dr.
Lin is a
postdoctoral
fellow at
Columbia Medical
School’s HIV
Research Center.
He is also
pursuing a
Master Degree in
Biostatistic at
Columbia
University. Dr.
Lin’s research
interests are
HIV-related
distress and
Buddhist
psychology. His
professional
goal is to
provide mental
health service
for the Asian
minorities in
this country,
especially for
the Taiwanese
community.
Xiaoping Lin
is an Associate
Professor for
the Department
of Art at Queens
College, CUNY.
Dr. Lin received
his Ph.D. from
Yale University
in 1993. He has
published
numerous
articles on
modern Chinese
art and cinema
in art journals
such as
Leonardo,
ArtAsiaPacific,
and Third
Text.
Andrea Louie
is an adjunct in
the Office of
Public Relations
at Brooklyn
College and the
author of a
novel, Moon
Cakes (Ballantine
Books). She is a
recipient of the
2004 Hannah S.
and Samuel A.
Cohn Memorial
Foundation
Fellowship, a
New York
Foundation for
the Arts
fellowship, a
Ludwig
Volgelstein
Foundation grant
and was
short-listed for
the Rona Jaffe
Foundation
Writers Award.
She is currently
a member of the
review panel in
literature for
the New York
Council on the
Arts and has
served as a
writer-in-residence
for the National
Book Foundation.
In addition,
Andrea has been
awarded artist
residencies at
Yaddo, the
MacDowell
Colony, Djerassi,
Hedgebrook and
the [FundacÃon
Valparáiso] in
Spain. She is
coeditor of
Topography of
War: Asian
American Essays
(The Asian
American Writers
Workshop). She
has also
reviewed books
for The Chicago
Tribune, was a
newspaper
reporter in Ohio
and has taught
creative
nonfiction in
the youth
programs at the
Hamilton-Madison
Settlement House
in New York City
Chinatown and at
The Asian
American Writers
Workshop.
Robert Lurz
is an Assistant
Professor of
Philosophy at
Brooklyn
College. He
received his
Ph.D. from
Temple
University in
1997 where he
worked with
Michael Tye
(University of
Texas, Austin),
one of the
foremost
philosophers on
consciousness.
Lurz’s areas of
research include
traditional
issues in
philosophy of
mind and
foundational
issues in
cognitive
science. At
present, he is
writing on
representational
accounts of
consciousness
and
philosophical
issues
concerning
animal minds.
Lurz has
published
articles on
representational
theories of
consciousness in
a number of
journals,
including
Psyche,
Journal of
Philosophical
Research,
Analysis,
and
Philosophical
Psychology.
Yue Ma
teaches at John
Jay College of
Criminal
Justice.
Professor Ma
received his
Ph.D. from
Rutgers
University. He
also holds a
J.D. from
Rutgers
University law
School, an LL.M.
from University
of Minnesota
School of Law,
and a Master of
Law from China
University of
Political
Science and Law.
Professor Ma is
interested in
comparative
study of legal
and criminal
justice issues.
His research
interest
recently focuses
on issues
related to
prosecutorial
power and
discretion.
Professor Ma has
published
numerous
articles and
book chapters on
various legal
and criminal
justice issues.
He has recently
published an
article on
comparative
study of
prosecutorial
discretion and
plea bargaining
in the United
States and
several European
countries, and a
book on the
American
criminal justice
system in
Chinese.
Noriko
Manabe
is a Ph.D.
student in
ethnomusicology
and music theory
at CUNY Graduate
Center. She has
presented papers
on Japanese rap,
Cuban zarzuelas,
and Verdi at
several
conferences and
lectured on the
musical
interpretations
of Don Quixote
at the Brooklyn
Conservatory.
She has taught
world music at
John Jay
College,
and Marymount
Manhattan
College. She is
a singer and
Board Director
for the Dessoff
Choir, where she
oversees its
endowment, and
serves on the
Investment
Committee of SEM.
Her article on
Japanese rap and
language will be
published in
Volume 50(1),
Winter 2006, of
Ethnomusicology.
Roopali
Mukherjee is
Assistant
Professor of
Media Studies at
Queens College
of the City
University of
New York.
Previously, she
served as
Assistant
Professor of
Communication
and Culture at
Indiana
University,
Bloomington and
was a Research
Fellow with the
Center for
African American
Studies at the
University of
California, Los
Angeles.
Professor
Mukherjee writes
on issues of
race/gender,
cultural
representation,
and political
discourse. She
recently
published her
book, The Racial
Order of Things:
Cultural
Imaginaries of
the Post-Soul
Era (Minnesota,
2006), and is
currently
working on a new
book, Pastime
Paradise: The
Politics of
Consumption and
the Black Public
Sphere.
Desirée
Baolian
Qin
received her
doctoral degree
from Harvard
Graduate School
of Education and
is currently a
Postdoc Fellow
at Teachers
College,
Columbia
University. Her
research focuses
on immigration,
adolescent
development, and
education. Her
dissertation
study explored
how gender
interacts with
home- and
school-level
factors in
Chinese
immigrant
children’s
educational and
psychosocial
adaptation. In
her current
research, she is
examining the
psychological
adjustment of
Chinese American
adolescents,
particularly the
impact of
parent-child
relations and
school factors,
such as
perceived
support from
teachers and
peer relations.
She is the
author of
“Gendered
Expectations and
Gendered
Experiences:
Immigrant
Students’
Adaptation in
Schools” (New
Directions for
Youth
Development,
2004). She is
co-editor (with
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
and Carola
Suárez-Orozco)
of the
six-volume
series titled
Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on
the New
Immigration (Routledge,
2001) and
co-editor (with
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco)
of
Globalization:
Education and
Culture in the
New Millennium (UC
Press, 2004).
Yan Sun
is a Professor
of Political
Science at
Queens College
and the Graduate
Center, CUNY.
She is the
author of The
Chinese
Reassessment of
Socialism:
1976-92
(Princeton
University
Press, 1995) and
Corruption
and Market in
Contemporary
China
(Cornell
University
Press, 2004), as
well as numerous
professional
articles on
post-Mao Chinese
politics,
comparative
Chinese and
Russian
transitions, and
post-communist
corruption.
Thomas Tam
is Executive
Director of the
Asian American /
Asian Research
Institute, and
Chairman of the
Asian American
Higher Education
Council. Dr. Tam
has taught
health
administration
at Columbia
University,
Lehman College,
and St. Joseph's
University. An
avid filmmaker,
and recent
convert to
Buddhism, Dr.
Tam created a
documentary
video entitled,
"En Route to
Lhasa," and has
recently given a
talk last on
"The Diamond
Sutra" at the
CUNY Graduate
Center.
Wendy Tan is currently a librarian
at the Hunter
College Library,
and she also has
keen interest in
Chinese
culinary. PSC-CUNY
grant gave her
the opportunity
to explore
Chinese culture
beyond the
cuisine. Besides
working with
library books or
roaming in
Chinatowns, she
also tutors in
Cantonese,
Mandarin and
Chinese
calligraphy for
children.
Liqing Tao
is currently an
Associate
Professor of
Literacy
Education at the
College of
Staten Island,
CUNY. Prof.
Tao’s main
research
interests are in
the relationship
between literacy
and society,
literacy and
technology, and
literacy
learning in
ancient China.
He has
previously
taught at Fudan
University and
Hangzhou
University in
China.
Judith
Thatcher has
been a
practicing
lawyer since
1970 and is
currently an
attorney for the
City of New
York. Miss
Thatcher has
been involved in
a variety of
musical pursuits
since her
childhood. In
addition to her
experience in
solo and choral
singing, she
plays various
instruments
including piano,
flute and
piccolo. She
has been with
the Pace
University
Downtown Chorale
since 2004 as
chorister and
flutist.
Eugenia Oi
Yan Yau is
assistant
professor of
music at Borough
of Manhattan
Community
College, the
City University
of New York. At
BMCC, she
teaches private
voice and
directs choirs
including the
BMCC Select
Chorus which she
founded in the
spring of 2005.
In addition, she
has been
directing the
Pace University
Downtown Chorale
since fall of
2005.
Prior to her
career in the
East coast, Yau
was the director
of music at
Olivet College
(Michigan) and
also taught at
Southwestern
College
(Kansas). At
SC, her
experiences in
global music and
cultures, led to
her appointment
as director of
Global Voices,
an ensemble that
she conceived
and developed in
2002.
Besides her
teaching duties,
Yau maintains an
active schedule
of presenting
lecture-recitals
on Chinese,
German and
American art
songs at
institutions
including the
University of
Texas,
University of
Michigan,
National
University of
Singapore, Hong
Kong Baptist
University and
De La Salle Lipa
University in
the Philippines.
She has also
performed as
soloist with the
Borough of
Manhattan
Community
College Downtown
Symphony
Orchestra,
Interlochen Arts
Academy
Orchestra,
Battle Creek
Symphony
Orchestra,
University of
Texas Opera
Theatre and
Symphony
Orchestra and
Southwest Texas
State University
Chorale and
Orchestra. This
December, she
will be featured
as an
outstanding
alumnus and will
perform with the
Hong Kong
Baptist
University
Chorale, Girls’
Choir and
Orchestra at the
university music
department’s
50th anniversary
celebration gala
concert in Hong
Kong.
Yau received her
Bachelor’s
Degree in Music
at Hong Kong
Baptist
University,
Master’s Degree
at Texas State
University, and
completed a
degree of Doctor
of Musical Arts
in vocal
performance at
the University
of Texas at
Austin. Yau also
received
numerous
professional
recognitions
including the
Fellowship
Diploma of
Singing from
Trinity College
of Music in
London, and the
Licentiate
Diploma of
Singing from
Royal Schools of
Music at London.
Kazuo
Yamazaki
currently works
as an assistant
trader in the
Security Lending
Department at
Mitsubishi UFJ
Trust Banking
Corporation
(U.S.A.). Mr.
Yamazki is
currently
obtaining a
Certificate of
Risk Management
at New York
University.
Mr. Yamazaki is
an honor student
graduate from
Brooklyn
College, CUNY,
with a major in
Political
Science and
minor in
Economics. He
has also worked
for the United
Nations
Department of
Economic and
Social Affairs
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