Faculty
Our Faculty by Region
Featured Faculty
China
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World Languages and Cultures |
Chinese language, linguistics |
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Eccles School of Business |
Diplomatic and voluntary assistance in China during Second World War, transnational approach to examine collaboration between the UK and the USA during the Second World War |
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Communication |
Environmental activism in China, rhetoric of social movements |
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Geography and Environmental and Sustainability Studies |
Development, political ecology, land and resource politics, critical geopolitics, infrastructure, China, Southeast Asia, Laos, Tibet, Nepal |
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Family and Consumer Studies |
Household saving/borrowing and financial management, household expenditures and the impact of government, and international comparison of consumer behavior |
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Philosophy |
Political philosophy, ethics and virtue in Confucianism |
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Art and Art History |
Art history, Buddhist art of Asia, Buddhist visual culture of the Asian diaspora, and Buddhism inspired contemporary Asian art. |
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World Languages and Cultures |
China, Japanese Studies, East Asia, Asia n Medicine |
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Economics |
Asian economic development, the future of socialism and communism |
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Writing and Rhetoric Studies |
Comparative rhetoric, Asian/Asian American rhetoric, histories of rhetoric, Chinese rhetoric, and writing research in global spaces |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Classical Chinese poetry and comparative literature; literary theory and criticism, translation, and cultural studies |
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Communications |
Health communication, environmental activism, social network analysis, meta-science |
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History |
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History |
Gender and legal history of East Asia, environmental history in China, female suicide studies |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Chinese literature and culture of the late imperial period (Ming and Qing dynasties), especially vernacular literature, performance traditions, history of the book, cultural history, and legal culture. |
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Geography |
Global urban and regional development in China |
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Sociology |
Social determinants of health, medical sociology, migration in the US and China |
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Sociology |
Comparative Criminology/Criminal Justice, Policing, Marijuana Legalization and Public Safety |
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Family and Consumer Studies |
Housing economics among immigrants and in the urban context, homeownership, household formation, and housing markets in China |
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Fine Arts; Art and Art History |
Paintings manifest the psychological weight experienced in moments of turmoil and tribulations; In his oneiric narratives, melancholia is a familiar companion – overbearing landscapes and foreboding atmospheres suppress his lonely protagonists, obscuring the delineation of fantasy and reality; Conflating the styles of the East and the West |
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Hua Zhu
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Writing and Rhetoric Studies |
Comparative rhetoric, Chinese rhetoric, Non-Eurocentric history of rhetoric, transnational writing pedagogy |
Korea
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Department |
Specialty |
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Communication |
Korean war; Narratives and memoirs with a focus on war and trauma |
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Political Science |
International relations of East Asia, political psychology and identity politics, behavioral decision-making |
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Psychology |
Psycho-Oncological Study for Cancer Patients and Family Caregivers; Measurement Scale Development for Mental Health of People with Severe Neurological Illness |
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Ballet |
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English |
Global/Transnational Literature, digital humanities |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Catholicism, Intellectual History |
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Political Science |
Public-NPO partnerships, NPO collaboration, leadership and management |
Japan
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World Languages and Cultures |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Japanese language |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Socio-phonetic phenomena and variation, first and second language phonology, Romance Languages in Contact Situations, Anthropological Linguistics |
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Sociology |
Social determinants of health, health disparities, minority and immigrant health, community-based research, and global health. |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Japanese language |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Japanese Studies, East Asia, Asian Medicine, China |
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Theater |
Buddhist Studies with an emphasis in ritual and meditation, movement systems including Butoh, Viewpoints, Noh Theatre, illusionary and corporeal mime, mask work, ballet and contemporary dance, Pilates, Laban/Barteneiff, and the martial arts of karate, kung fu, and tai chi |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Literature, history, and performance in classical and medieval Japan (10th through 15th centuries) |
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History |
Life Insurance, Capitalism, Public Health, Futurity |
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Film |
Japanese anime, Animation theory, Animation production, Digital Media |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Problem of representation (in its many senses) in writing by Koreans in the Japanese empire and its ongoing aftermath |
Russia / Central Asia
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Department |
Specialty |
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World Languages |
Second-language learning, Russian language and cultural studies |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Russian language |
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College of Law |
International Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, National Security, Human Trafficking, International Labor Standards |
Southeast Asia
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Specialty |
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Geography and Environmental and Sustainability Studies |
Development, political ecology, land and resource politics, critical geopolitics, infrastructure, China, Southeast Asia, Laos, Tibet, Nepal |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Vietnamese language |
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Sociology |
Migration, intergenerational relationships, population studies in developing countries; Southeast Asia |
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History |
Trade and economic developments in Southeast Asia, the period of the 1400s to the 19th century, global Islam |
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College of Social Work |
Mindfulness, immigration and resettlement, global social work practice and reflexive social work: diversity and social justice |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Vietnamese language |
South / Central Asia
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Department |
Specialty |
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Environmental and Sustainability Studies |
International Relations, Energy and Environmental Politics, and Research Methods |
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Economics |
Applied microeconomics, environment and resources, psychology and gender; India |
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History |
Early-modern and modern periods of the subcontinent’s history |
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Geography and Environmental and Sustainability Studies |
Development, political ecology, land and resource politics, critical geopolitics, infrastructure, China, Southeast Asia, Laos, Tibet, Nepal |
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Economics |
Economics experiments to study human behavior in strategic settings, Behavioral Economics, Applied Game Theory |
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World Languages & Cultures |
Hindi, Urdu, and South Asian literature, (popular) culture, society and religion. History of the relationship between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority in South-Asia, with a focus on 20th and 21st-century India |
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History |
Modern Middle East,Ottoman Empire, Arabian Peninsula, Indian Ocean, Islamic World, Environmental History, Comparative Empire, Disease and Pandemics, Infrastructure,Water, Energy, Climate Change, Mobility (Pilgrimage, Travel, Tourism, Migration) |
m.chris.low@utah.edu | |
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Art and Art History
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Islamic and architecture, medieval art and architecture, book history, history of science and medicine, visual information technologies. |
meekyung.macmurdie@utah.edu |
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History |
History of Middle East 1798-1914, Middle East since 1914 |
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Family & Preventative Medicine |
Community Engagement, Malnutrition Among Children, Cultural and Gender Studies, Health and Legal Literacy, Adolescent Nutrition, Social Determinants of Health |
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Linguistics |
Formal semantics, historical linguistics/philology, syntax, morphology, computational linguistics, South Asian Languages and Literature |
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Division of Public Health |
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Division of Public Health |
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Architecture |
Urban History, Modern Islam, Imperialism, History of Architecture, Sound Studies, Media Studies in Art and Architecture, History of Globalization, Colonialism |
Asia Pacific
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College of Health |
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Gender Studies/History |
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Anthropology |
Cultural evolution; migration patterns and cultural variations; Tongan diaspora |
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Parks, Recreation and Tourism |
Sustainable development, tourism and protected area management, visitor management, outdoor recreation management, natural resources and community management |
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Psychology |
Asian American
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Specialty |
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Political Science, Ethnic Studies |
My research interests occupy the nexus between critical race studies, American political thought & development, and contemporary political theory. I seek to understand how discourses of race have synergized American politics in both its institutional and cultural aspects. Critical Race Theory, American Political Culture, American Political Thought |
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Ethnic Studies |
Labor, migration, violence, militarisms, sexual slavery and human trafficking, ethnic studies, sociolegal analysis with visual studies and social movement analysis |
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Political Science |
Urban and racial politics, voting and elections, cross-racial political analysis, and quantitative research methods |
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Communication |
Rhetoric and discourse, media and film; race, ethnic, and cultural studies |
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English |
Asian American Literature (Literature), Gender, Transnational identity |
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Education, Culture & Society |
Language ideologies and the social context of language education for emergent bilingual learners. In particular, critical race theory and raciolinguistic perspectives to explore how the larger sociopolitical contexts shape the experiences of language-minoritized communities. |
Comparative
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Specialty |
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Division of Public Health |
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College of Law |
Public and private international law and related areas including: human rights; globalization; international business transactions and international economic law; colonialism and the history of public international law; Third World Approaches to International Law; the law of the United Nations; legal education in developing countries. |
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Environmental and Sustainability Studies |
International Relations, Energy and Environmental Politics, and Research Methods |
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History |
East Africa's interactions with social and economic networks of the Indian Ocean since the first millennium. My current project looks at the Swahili coast and western Indian Ocean from the perspective of small-scale societies that lived along the rural fringes of the port city of Mombasa. |
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History |
History of Brazil, history of science, comparative colonial history |
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English |
Colonial and postcolonial English literatures, minority discourse, postcolonial theory, James Joyce and Irish Studies |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Ethnography, Comparative Religion, Africa |
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Social Work |
Health of women and youth from refugee backgrounds |
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College of Law |
Environmental law in Latin America; Human rights in Latin America |
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College of Law |
Counterterrorism, Criminal Law, International Law |
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World Languages and Cultures |
Japanese Studies, East Asia, Asian medicine, China |
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Political Science |
Globalization, foreign policy and aid, international relations of Africa |
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Film |
Transnational Cinematic Identities, Middle East Cinema, Political Documentaries in the United States and Mexican cinema |
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Family & Preventative Medicine |
Community Engagement, Malnutrition Among Children, Cultural and Gender Studies, Health and Legal Literacy, Adolescent Nutrition, Social Determinants of Health |
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Hua Zhu |
Writing and Rhetoric Studies |
Comparative rhetoric, Chinese rhetoric, Non-Eurocentric history of rhetoric, transnational writing pedagogy |
Haimanti Bhattacharya
Department: Economics
Current research:
I am an economist with research interests in environment, resource & food, psychology & economics, and gender. The geographic focus of my research is India. My past research projects include empirical analysis of the relationship of vegetation change with population growth and poverty, role of status in varied decision-making contexts, implication of spousal violence on women’s employment, attitude towards violence against women. Topics that I am currently working on or plan to work on in near future include, cheating in a marketplace, relationship between prosociality and attitude towards environment amongst university students, comparative analysis of household status of women in the South Asian countries, analysis of evolution of institutions governing water resources in India.
Opportunities for students:
I am willing to collaborate on research projects with students interested in conducting statistical analysis of primary or secondary data for environment or gender related projects, or compile historical institutional data in India.
Haimanti Bhattacharya
Department: Economics
Current research:
I am an economist with research interests in environment, resource & food, psychology & economics, and gender. The geographic focus of my research is India. My past research projects include empirical analysis of the relationship of vegetation change with population growth and poverty, role of status in varied decision-making contexts, implication of spousal violence on women’s employment, attitude towards violence against women. Topics that I am currently working on or plan to work on in near future include, cheating in a marketplace, relationship between prosociality and attitude towards environment amongst university students, comparative analysis of household status of women in the South Asian countries, analysis of evolution of institutions governing water resources in India.
Opportunities for students:
I am willing to collaborate on research projects with students interested in conducting statistical analysis of primary or secondary data for environment or gender related projects, or compile historical institutional data in India.
Eun Bin Chung
Department: Political Science
Current research:
I am an international relations scholar who uses survey and field experiments to study questions of nationalism and identity, security, and conflict resolution. I conduct field research in South Korea, Japan, and China.
My current research is motivated by the question: How can countries with a history of conflict and/or colonization reconcile with each other? I am interested in the psychological underpinnings that help relieve post-conflict animosity between groups. My approach is interdisciplinary, incorporating psychological and decision-making theories as well as historical and cultural evidence.
Opportunities for students:
I am willing to serve as a committee member for students who are supported in their research by a main advisor, and are working on any topic in Korean politics or international relations of Northeast Asia.
In pursuit of my research topics I combine two methodological approaches: fieldwork and experiments. I thus offer unique opportunities for students interested in experimental research. I can involve interested students in lab experiments, and also work with students on their projects if they can be undertaken as part of my field research.
Ben Cohen
Department: History
Current research:
I am a historian of South Asia. My current research is a monograph on the social role of water in India’s Deccan from the late medieval to the present. I have published two other monographs, one on Hyderabad State in the nineteenth century, and the other on the social clubs across colonial India. I am also completing a manuscript on a sex scandal in late nineteenth century Hyderabad.
Opportunities for students:
I would be interested in working with students who share a similar chronological interest in the nineteenth century. Some areas of research might include: colonialism, princely states, and the environment.
Rosemarie Hunter
Department: Social Work
Current research:
I locate my scholarship within a community-based participatory action framework that has at its center the critical examination of power and access structures that often disregard underrepresented and oppressed populations. The focus of my work is to bridge local and global borders through teaching, practice and research partnerships that connect communities in migration with each other. These partnerships are located in Thailand and Myanmar and also include members of the Karen and Karenni communities in Salt Lake City (learn more)
Opportunities for students:
I am interested in learning with students who have questions and/or similar interests including: current partnerships in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma); issues of forced migration; local communities of refugee and immigrant background; and community-engaged models of learning.
Akiko Kamimura
Department: Sociology
Current research:
I have done research on violence against women, infectious diseases (in particular, influenza and HPV), environmental health, and aging society in Japan, India, Vietnam, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and/or Singapore.
Opportunities for students:
I am willing to serve as a committee member or chair for students who are interested in any health related topics in any Asian countries. I can arrange opportunities for health research which fit the interest of each student, as far as a proposed project is feasible to be completed in a certain time frame.
