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UC Faculty Abroad Profiles
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 MelbourneProfessor Sharon Block, Study Center Director
UCI, Department of History
January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2010 |
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 BeijingProfessor King-Kok Cheung, Study Center Director
UCLA, Departments of English and Asian American Studies
January 1, 2008 through August 31, 2010 King-Kok Cheung received her PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and joined the English Department at UCLA in the same year. She is currently Professor of English and Asian American Studies at UCLA. Her interests include American Ethnic Literatures, Asian American Literature, Renaissance British Literature, and Comparative Heroic Traditions. She has received several awards including an ACLS fellowship, a Mellon fellowship, a Fulbright lecturing and research award to Hong Kong, a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award to Germany, and a resident fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. Her publications include Articulate Silences (1993), Words Matter (2000), An Interethnic Companion to Asian American literature (1996), and The Heath Anthology of American Literature (2002-2007). She is currently working on a monograph on transnational and interracial approaches to Chinese American literature.
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 ShanghaiProfessor Hu Ying, Study Center Director
UCI, Department of East Asian Languages & Literature
January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009 Hu Ying is currently Associate Professor of Chinese literature at University of California at Irvine. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University and her BA from Peking University. The focus of her research is the literature and culture of late 19th to early 20th century China, a fascinating period that witnessed rapid changes in every aspect of the Chinese world. This period of great ideological and cultural fluidity bred a generation of independent thinkers. She is working on a book manuscript that examines how three women of that period – a revolutionary executed by the government, an artist and philanthropist, and a poet and pioneering educator - understood and intervened in the great changes of political system, cultural values and gender norms. Her previous book Tales of Translation: Composing the New Woman in China, 1898-1918 was published by Stanford University Press in 2000 and is recently translated into Chinese. |
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 CairoProfessor Fadi A. Fathallah, Study Center Director
UCD, Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010 Fadi Fathallah is an Associate Professor in the department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis. He is a member of the Biomedical Engineering and the Exercise Science Graduate Groups at UCD. He directs the Occupational Biomechanics Laboratory and a member of the UC Agricultural Ergonomics Research Center, the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, and the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety. His research interests revolve around the assessment and prevention of occupational musculoskeletal disorders, especially among agricultural workers in California and in developing countries. He teaches an undergraduate course on Biomechanics and Ergonomics, and a graduate course on Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders. Prior to joining UC Davis in 1999, he spent four years as a Senior Research Associate at the Liberty Mutual Research Center for Safety and Health in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
Professor Fathallah received a BS in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University in 1986, a MS in Human Factors Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1988, and a PhD in Occupational Biomechanics/Ergonomics from Ohio State University in 1995. |
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Bordeaux & ParisProfessor Barbara B. Prézelin, Study Center Director
UCSB, Department of Biology, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology (EEMB)
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010 |
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 LyonProfessor Christopher Newfield, Study Center Director
UCSB, Department of English
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010 |
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 GöttingenProfessor Margaret Morse, Study Center Director
UCSC, Department of Digital Arts/Film & Digital Media
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010 |
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 Meiji-GakuinProfessor Janet S. Shibamoto Smith, Visiting Professor
UCD, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Group in Linguistics
April 1, through July 31, 2009 and September 1, through December 31, 2009 Janet Shibamoto Smith is Professor of Anthropology and a member of the Linguistics Group at the University of California, Davis, where she has been on the faculty since 1978. Her academic specialty is Japanese language, gender, and sexuality, with a particular emphasis on the dynamic interaction between ideology and practice. She also is involved in a project aimed at elucidating the cultural models of romantic love through textual analyses of popular print and televisual materials spanning the period 1970 to the present. Recent publications include the edited volume Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People (with Shigeko Okamoto, Oxford University Press 2004). She is currently at work on a book entitled, Texting True Love: Romance in Japan.
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 Mexico CityProfessor Max Parra, Study Center Director
UCSD, Department of Literature
September 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010
Max Parra holds a PhD from Columbia University and has taught Latin American literature at UC San Diego since 1990. His scholarly work focuses on Mexican literature and intellectual history, including regional cultures and nation building, photography and literature, and border studies. He has published numerous articles on early 20th-century narratives and popular poetics, as well as on modern political literature. His book, Writing Pancho Villa’s Revolution: Rebels In The Literary Imagination of Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2005), explores the politics of representation of popular subjects in post-revolutionary literature. He is currently writing a book on regional memory and history in northern Mexico, based on personal narratives, ballads, and photographic archives. In 2007–2008 he served on the board of the California Council for the Humanities. He is an affiliated faculty of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UCSD and a founding member of UC Mexicanistas,
where he serves on the steering committee. Concurrent with his EAP Study Center Director appointment, he holds the position of Executive Director of Casa de la Universidad de California in Mexico. |
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LondonProfessor Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Study Center Director
UCSB, Department of Sociology
July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2010
Kum-Kum Bhavnani is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Women, Culture, Development Program (Global and International Studies) at UC Santa Barbara. She has recently disseminated her research in the form of a feature length documentary, THE SHAPE OF WATER, narrated by Susan Sarandon.
Her previous research includes books published by Cambridge University Press, and edited collections published by Sage, Oxford University Press, Zed Press and Routledge (forthcoming).
She received her B.SC from Bristol University (Soc. Sci., Hons.), her MA from Nottinghma University (in Child and Educational Psychology) and her Ph.D from King's College, Cambridge University (Social and Political Sciences). She has been chair of her campus Planning and Budget Committee and has just completed a 2 year term as Vice-Chair of the UCSB Academic Senate.
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