Support the ProgramAsian/Asian American Studies at Miami University
Faculty
Core Faculty
Quanyu Huang, Ph.D., interim director of the Asian/Asian American Studies Program at Miami University; specialist on Sino-American cultural and educational comparison; columnist for the prestigious newspaper, "South Weekly"; guest Professor at Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University, and visiting professor of the Training Program for High School Principals at Peking University; winner of the Profound Impact Award from EHS, Miami University in 2007; Outstanding Professor, Distinguished Professor Finalist, Miami University in 2010.
He has published numerous English and Chinese books, dictionaries, and papers, such as A Guide to Successful Business Relations with the Chinese, Business Decision Making in China, and Quality Education in America, etc. His work includes eight Chinese bestsellers. One of them, Quality Education in America, was the number one bestselling non-fiction book in China for 2000. Dr. Huang has published both Chinese and English versions of his innovative Broken Marks Dictionary, which utilizes an intuitive new method of character organization that allows for non-native students of Chinese to find unknown Chinese characters quickly, easily and reliably.
Dr. Huang has conducted countless lectures in Chinese universities and cities. His educational philosophy has encouraged and widely influenced current educational reform in China.
Anita Mannur (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst) joined Miami in fall 2009 with a joint appointment in English and Asian/Asian American Studies. Her research interests center on Asian American literature and culture with a specific emphasis on South Asian contexts. She is the author of Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Cultures (Temple UP, 2010) and coeditor, with Jana Evans Braziel, of Theorizing Diaspora (Blackwell, 2003). She is currently at work on a new project on the emergence and articulation of South Asian Americanness in pre-1965 exclusion-era literary culture examining works by Bharati Mukherjee, Bhira Backhaus, Ved Mehta, Parvati Athvale and Santa Rama Rau.
Faculty Affiliates
- Ahmed, Fauzia
- Assistant Professor
Sociology; Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies - Cho, Yu-Fang
- Associate Professor
English; Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies - Dilek, Yildirim
- Distinguished Professor
Geology - Jayasena, Nalin
- Associate Professor
English - Mao, LuMing
- Professor and Chair
English - Raval, Vaishali
- Assistant Professor
Psychology - Wilson, Elizabeth (Liz)
- Professor
Comparative Religion