Marc Moskowitz

E-Mail:  moskowit@mailbox.sc.edu
Website: http://people.cas.sc.edu/moskowitz/index.html

Phone: (803) 777-6500
Fax: (803) 777-9064

Marc L. Moskowitz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina. He is a recipient of the Fulbright-Hays, Fulbright, and Chiang Ching-Kuo awards. He is the author of the books Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Popular Music (in press), The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality and the Spirit World in Taiwan (2001), and co-editor of The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan (2004). He has also published in a range of journals in the US and Taiwan including The China Quarterly, Popular Music, and Sexualities. Since his first trip to the PRC in 1988, Moskowitz lived in the People's Republic of China for over one year and in Taiwan for a total of over eight years.

AFFILIATED FACULTY AT USC

• Robert Angel
  Professor Angel is currently a professor in Department of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina. His research interest broadly includes Asian affairs and specifically focuses on Japanese studies.  Dr. Angel maintains a highly regarded webpage on Japanese politics. [More] [Contact]

• Junko Baba
  Professor Baba is currently an Associate Professor of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of South Carolina. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and conversation analysis. [More] [Contact]

• Timothy J. Bergen, Jr.
  Professor Bergen is currently a professor in College of Education at the University of South Carolina. He was a visiting professor to Shanxi University in the People's Republic of China in 1983. He has also done a body of research on Asian education. [More] [Contact]
   
•  Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
  Professor Cuervo-Cazurra joined the Sonoco International Business Department at the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business in August 2005. Between 1999 and 2005 he was a faculty member in the Strategic Management and Organization department at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. Dr. Cuervo-Cazurra has taught courses on international management, international business, and strategic management at the undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. levels.  His current research lies at the intersection of strategic and international management, studying how Japanese firms change and develop resources to become competitive and how then they become international. [More] [Contact]
   
•  Stanley Dubinsky
  Professor Dubinsky (Ph.D. Cornell University 1985) is a professor of Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature, having served as director of the Linguistics program at USC from 1998-2004. His research is focused on syntactic theory and semantics, with a special interest in Japanese. His research on Japanese syntax has appeared in the following journals and books: Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics, Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Gengogaku to nihongo kyooiku (Linguistics and Japanese language education), Journal of Linguistics, Linguistics, Studies in relational grammar, and The grammar of Raising and Control: A course in syntactic argumentation.
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• Harold W. French
  Professor French has taught at the University of South Carolina since 1972, serving as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies from 1989-1995, and is currently dividing his time (in semi-retirement) between teaching part-time and several other activities. Hal has written several books and numerous articles, mostly on Asian religion, and has won a number of teaching awards, including the AMOCO award, Mortar Board awards, and three from the Honors College. [More] [Contact]

• Karl Heider - Emeritus
  Professor Heider is Associate Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Students as well as a professor of anthropology.  His work focuses on cultural, psychological, emotional, and visual anthropology, ethnographic film, fiction film, nonverbal behavior in Oceania and Indonesia. [Contact]
   
• Michael Gibbs Hill
  Michael Gibbs Hill is Assistant Professor of Chinese and core faculty member in the Program in Comparative Literature. His research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chinese literature, classical-language Chinese prose, comparative literature, translation studies, and the history of the book. [More] [Contact]
  
  
• John Hsieh
  Professor Hsieh, the former director of the Center, received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Rochester in 1982. Before moving to the University of South Carolina (USC) on January 1, 1999, he taught at National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taipei, Taiwan. At NCCU, he had served as chief secretary of the Institute of International Relations, acting director of the Election Study Center, and chairman of the Department of Political Science. Currently at USC, he is a Professor of the Department of Political Science. [More] [Contact]
  
  
• Guo Jie
  Professor Jie Guo has been assistant professor of comparative literature at the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures since 2007. Her research interests include the study of women, gender and sexuality, literary theory, film theory, Chinese literature from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, and Chinese-language cinemas. She is currently working on a manuscript on male-male relations in late Ming and early Qing literature, and is completing a paper on the twentieth-century Dutch Sinologist Robert Hans van Gulik. [More] [Contact]
   
• W. Dean Kinzley
  Professor Kinzley teaches surveys of East Civilization and Modern East Asia as well as courses on Modern Japan and seminars on Japanese social history, World War II in the Pacific, and the United States and East Asia in World War II and its aftermath. His first book Industrial Harmony in Modern Japan: The Invention of a Tradition examined state-sanctioned ideologies concerning industrial relations in the first half of the twentieth century. [More] [Contact]

• Chuck C. Y. Kwok
  Professor Kwok, originally from Hong Kong, came to the United States in 1981 to study at the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a Ph.D. degree with a major in International Business in 1984. He has been teaching various international finance courses at both master and doctoral levels at the University of South Carolina since Fall, 1984. In 1998, he was given the International Professional Award by the South Carolina Governor, David Beasley, at the Governor International Gala. [More] [Contact]
   
• David Linnan
  A specialist in Asian Law, Professor Linnan has focused much of his recent research and service on Indonesia where he has been a Senior Scholar with the Fulbright Southeast Asia Regional Research Program, in cooperation with the University of Indonesia, working out of Jakarta Stock Exchange on capital markets regulation; Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and Faculty of Law, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Visiting Research Fellow at the Indonesia Project, Department of Economics and the Faculty of Law (1/95-6/95); and Program Director and Principal Investigator under the USAID Cooperation Agreement establishing the Law and Finance Institutional Partnership (LFIP), Jakarta, Indonesia (2000 to date). [Contact] [More]
   
• Jihong Liu
  Professor Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the Arnold School of Public Health.  She has published extensively on demographic and reproductive health issues in China. [Contact] [More]
   
• James T. Myers
  Professor Myers, now distinguished professor emeritus, is the founder and first director of Center for Asian Studies. He has built an international reputation as a China scholar since arriving at USC in 1967 with a doctorate in political science from George Washington University and a certificate in Mandarin Chinese from Yale's Institute for Far Eastern Languages. He is also the author, editor or co-editor of eleven books and numerous scholarly articles, principally in the field of contemporary Chinese politics. [Contact]
   
• Kendall Roth
  Professor Roth is Professor of International Business at the University of South Carolina Moore School of Business. He holds the J. Willis Cantey Chair of International Business and Economics and serves as the chair of the Sonoco International Business Department. He is also the director of the international business Ph.D. major at Moore School of Business. Dr. Roth’s research interests focus on institutional and sociocultural approaches to understanding organization practices and routines within multinational enterprises. His interests also include cultural frameworks, from a methodological perspective and applied to understanding behaviors within the multinational enterprise context. [More] [Contact]

• Ken Shin
  Professor Shin is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. He is originally from South Korea and obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania. [More] [Contact]
   
• C. Annique Un
  Professor Un is an assist professor of International Business in the Moore School of Business.  As a Starr Fellow at Tokyo University and Hitotsubashi University, she analyzed the technology strategies of Japanese and American companies operating there and later compared them in their operations located in the United States. After earning her MBA and prior to earning her PhD, she worked for Ford Motor Company in the United States. She also worked for Kowa Pharmaceutical Corporation, Mainichi Shinbun, and Shoshisha Publishing Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan.
   
• Ran Wei
  Professor Ran Wei, China-born, joined the School of Journalism & Mass Communications in Spring 2001. Prior to this, he taught at Chinese University of Hong Kong for five and a half years. His teaching and research interests include principles of advertising, advertising research, advertising in cultural China, impact of new media technologies and media effects. His publications appeared in International Journal of Advertising, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Gazette, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcast & Electronic Media, Asian Journal of Communication, Media Asia, World Communication, New Media & Society and Telematics and Informatics. He also contributed two chapters to edited volumes on mass media in China and Taiwan. [More] [Contact]

• Yoshitaka Sakakibara
  Professor Sakakibara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of South Carolina. His teaching and research interest primarily focus on Japanese language and culture. [More] [Contact]
   
• Krista Van Fleit Hang
  Krista Van Fleit Hang is assistant professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of South Carolina. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where her dissertation focused on the production of culture in China's Maoist period. She is currently working on a project that considers the development of "people's literature" in China and its connections to theories of socialist realism in international communist literature. A focus on the representation of gender roles in communist literature informs most of her work, as does the relationship between Chinese literary tradition and the culture of the Maoist period. [More] [Contact]
  
  
• Tan Ye
  Professor Ye is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of South Carolina. His fruitful teaching experiences include Chinese theater, literature, language, and comparative literature, etc. [More] [Contact]
   
• Wei Zheng
  Professor Zheng received his MD degree from Shanghai Medical University in China in 1983. In 1992, he obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Currently, he is the professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at University of South Carolina.

VISITING SCHOLARS

Song, Jee-Hyun, Ph. D.

Chonnam National University, Language Education Center, Instructor, Mar.2003-Feb.2006
Executive Director of The International Association for Korean Language Education (2005-2006)

Park, Hyeong Jung, Ph. D.

Senior Research Fellow, Division of North Korea Studies, Korea Institute for National Unification

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