2019 Spring and Yearlong U.S. Fulbright Guest Lecture Topics
1. Alasdair Bowie
Chinese Host: Sichuan University
Home Institution: The George Washington University, Washington DC
Field: Political Science/International Studies
Grant Term: August 2018 - July 2019
Email Address: abowie@gwu.edu
American Policy Approaches to Immigrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Contemporary Challenges and Responses
Higher Education in the U.S.: life and learning on four distinctly different kinds of American university/college campus
Southeast Asian Political Institutions: contemporary Indonesia, Vietnam and Myanmar in comparative perspective
Vietnam’s Manufacturing Miracle: how administrative and economic reforms are contributing to (and hindering) Vietnam’s economic transformation
South Asian Foreign Relations: approaching 75 years of independent partnership and contestation
Higher Education in Australia and New Zealand: the role and experience of international students on university campuses in Australasia
2. Jeff Bremer
Chinese Host Institution: Northeast Normal State University
Home Institution: Iowa State University
Term: February 2019 – July 2019
Fields: American History
Email: jrbremer@iastate.edu
James Madison and Donald Trump Walk Into a Bar: A Brief History of the American Constitution
A Short History of American Capitalism: From Hamilton to the 21st Century
A History of Iowa: The American Experience in a Midwestern State
The Conquest of the American West From Thomas Jefferson to Sitting Bull
American Slavery from 1492 to 1865
3. Jacob R. Hickman
Chinese Host Institution: Yunnan University
Home Institution: Brigham Young University
Term: September 2018 – July 2019
Fields: Anthropology and Psychology, Miao/Hmong studies
Email: jhickman@byu.edu
Ancestral Pasts, Ancestral Futures: Migrations of Souls and Bodies Across the Hmong/Miao Diaspora
Moral Development across the Life Course
The Hmong/Miao Diaspora: Religion and Cultural Change Across Three Continents
Morality, Reality, and Finality: Apocalyptic Movements in America, Europe, and Asia
A (M)oral History of The Ancient Hmong Kingdom: Ritual, Writing Systems, and Narrative
The Art of Being Governed: Managing the Soul of a General and the Rituals of Aspirational Statecraft
4. Evelyn Hsieh Donroe, M.D., Ph.D
Chinese Host Institution: Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Home Institution: Yale University
Term: September 2018-June 2019
Field: Medicine and Public Health
Email: evhsieh99@yahoo.com
A. Osteoporosis among Patients with HIV: Mechanisms, Epidemiology and Prevention
B. Osteoporosis: A Primer
C. Getting Published: Pearls for Preparing a Scientific Manuscript
D. Women’s Health & Global Non-Communicable Diseases
E. Vitamin D: Continued Controversy and Interest
F. Graduate Medical Education in the United States
5. Marcus Farr
Chinese Host Institution: Tianjin University
Home Institution: American University of Sharjah
Field: Architecture
Grant Term: February 2019 to July 2019
Email Address: marcusfarr@mac.com
A. Architecture & Urbanism of Dubai: Past & Present
B. Teaching Comprehensive Architecture & Building Technology: Education & Examples
C. Architectural Practice & Education in the U.S. and Dubai: Past & Present
D. Vernacular Desert Architecture: Past & Present
E. Sustainability in the Desert: Dubai 2020
F. Teaching Digital Design and Fabrication in Architecture: Past & Present
6. Lawrence H. Gerstein
Chinese Host Institution: Southwest Minzu University
Home Institution: Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Field: Psychology/Peace and Conflict Studies
Grant Term: January 2019 to June 2019
Email Address: lgerstein@bsu.edu
Conducting valid cross-cultural research, counseling, and training
Preventing and resolving conflicts peacefully
Emotion recognition and event related potential
Solution focused counseling
Culturally relevant prevention strategies
Sport for social change and youth development
Cross-cultural and multicultural psychology and counseling
7. QI, Li
Home University: Agnes Scott College
Host University: China Agriculture University
Research Field: Behavioral Economics and Finance
Project Title: Teaching and Applying Experimental and Behavioral Economics to Improve
Healthcare Quality in Rural China
Email Address: qili26@yahoo.com
A. The Development of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
B. Culture, Risk Preference, and Economic Decision Making
C. Psychology and Finance: Behavioral and Experimental Finance
D. The Socio-Economic and Education Determinants of Crime: a Study of Chinese Inmates
E. Trust and Other Pro-social Preferences in China
8. Nicholas Brasovan
Chinese Host Institution: Jinan University (Guangzhou)
Home Institution: University of Central Arkansas
Term: September 2018 – July 2019
Fields: Philosophy
Email: nbrasovan@uca.edu
A. Confucian Management Philosophy
B. Confucian Environmental Philosophy
B. American Environmental Philosophy
D. Introduction to Greek Philosophy
E. Modernity in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
F. Experience and Experimentalism in American Pragmatism
9. Christopher K. Tong
Chinese Host: Nanjing University
Home Institution: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Field: Comparative Literature
Grant Term: September 2018 to July 2019
Email Address: christopherktong@gmail.com
A. Thinking Nature across Cultures
B. Dialectic of Natural Beauty
C. Discussing Environmental Issues through Ecocinema
D. The Question of China’s Sustainability in Environmental History
E. Ecoambiguity and Chinese Environmental History
10. Elizabeth Roth
Chinese Host Institution: South China Normal University
Home Institution: Oklahoma State University
Field: Visual Art
Grant Term: February 2019 to July 2019
Email Address: liz.roth@okstate.edu
A. Geology and Art: How Scientific Research Informs the Visual
B. Consumption and Conflict: Contemporary Landscape Painting and Current Environmental Issues
C. Intimate Insights: The Artist’s Sketchbook and the Visual Development of Ideas
D. Artists’ Residencies: Being Present Where you Are
E. Depicting National Parks and American Ideas about Wilderness
Professional Practices Topics:
• Artist Residencies: how to find them, and how to get them
• Proposal Writing for Artists: How to write proposals for grants, residencies, and graduate school
• Time Management for artists: Organize your time for artistic success
11. Yan Ruth Xia
Chinese Host Institution: East China Normal University
Home Institution: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Field: Child, Youth and Family Studies
Grant Term: September 2018 to July 2019
Email Address: rxia2@unl.edu
A. Parenting adolescents: How to grow with your child
B. Build strong Chinese families and marriages as a way to cope with stress and crisis, and address emotional and behavioral issues
C. Dating among adolescence: Helping adolescents develop healthy relationships.
D. What skills do young people need to succeed in life and work (general audience); research-supported positive youth development program design and evaluation (policy makers, researcher and family and community outreach people)
E. Client-professional relationship: An underappreciated key factor in prevention and intervention success
All topics can be tailored to address targeted audience.
12. Emily T. Yeh
Chinese host: Xinan Jiaotong University
Home Institution: University of Colorado Boulder
Field: Human Geography
Grant term: September 2018-June 2019
Email address: emily.yeh@colorado.edu
A. The anthropocene viewed from the Tibetan Plateau
B. Going West and Going Out: Discourses, migrants and models in China’s development
C. Environmentalism on the Tibetan Plateau
D. Vulnerability to and knowledge of climate change among Tibetan pastoralists
E. Remotely transnational: Mobility, border citizenship and the making of place in the Limi Valley, Nepal
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