Virginia Review of Asian Studies Volume 18: (2016) 252-254

Virginia Review of Asian Studies Volume 18: (2016) 252-254

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS

Nasreen Akhtaris Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations in International Islamic University Islamabad and she is doing her PhD in IR from QUA, Islamabad, Pakistan. She has published many articles on Pakistani relations with India and on the state of Pakistani women. She has twice been a Visiting Scholar in Asian Studies at Mary Baldwin University.

Paul Capobiancois a Ph.D. candidate in cultural anthropology at the University of Iowa. His dissertation examines how Japanese identity and interpersonal relationships between Japanese and foreigners are changing as a result of Japan’s ongoing demographic changes. He will conclude data collection for his dissertation project this summer. He is currently teaching at Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College.

Xinran Andy Chen is a graduate from the Class of 2015 at Rhodes College, where he studied Economics and International Studies. He will soon attend graduate school in International Relations in Washington DC.

Wilton S. Dillon (1923-2015) was a Senior Scholar Emeritus at the Smithsonian at the time of his death. He spent four decades as Director of Symposia and Seminars at the Smithsonian. His last book, Smithsonian Stories: Chronicle of a Golden Age, 1964-1984 was published in 2015.

Amy France is a Travel Specialist in the International Studies Office at the University of Virginia. She is also completing her BA degree at Mary Baldwin College where she is majoring in International Relations.

Robert Grotjohnhas been a professor in the English Language and Literature Department of Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea since 2010, when he took early retirement from Mary Baldwin College, where he had spent most of his teaching career. While his main area of teaching and research is American poetry, Dr. Grotjohn he also teaches a course in American Society and Popular Culture. He is currently working on a book about Korean American poetry and its reception in South Korea.

William Head is Chief, 78 ABW Office of History, Robins AFB, Georgia. He has been an Air Force Historian since 1984 and the Chief of Robins AFB History Office since 1996. He received his Ph.D. in U.S. Diplomatic History from Florida State University in 1980. Dr. Head has published 18 books including Texas A&M University Press’ Night Hunters: A History of the AC-130s and their role in U.S. Air Power (2014). He has authored more than 50 articles in journals like the Journal of American History, Journal of Military History, Virginia Review of Asian Studies, and Air Power History. He has made more than 100 presentations to meetings including: Organization of American Historians, Association of Asian Studies and Society of Military History.

Dr. Head was President of Association of Asian Studies, Southeastern Region, 2006-07. He is active in Association of Asian Studies, American Historical Association, Organization of American History, Society for History in the Federal Government, and Society for Military History. Dr. Head has appeared in several documentaries such as Discovery/Military Channel’s Weaponology.” He has been on numerous local and state media outlets as a history expert. Dr. Head has received the Air Force Most Outstanding Historian Award; Air Force Robert F. Futrell Excellence in Historical Publications for Shadow & Stinger; 2011-12; AFMC & Air Force Superior Office Award on 17 occasions; 2013 AFMC Excellence in Historical Publications Award—for the Special Study, “Night Hunters.

Yongguang Huis an Assistant Professor of History and the coordinator of the Asian Studies program at James Madison University. He received his Ph.D. in Chinese History from the State University of New York, Binghamton in 2011. His research mainly focuses on Confucian education and social transformations in the middle period of China (800-1400). Dr. Hu has published several articles and reviews inJournal of Song-Yuan Studies,Northeast Asian History,Ming Studies,and Central China Academics.

Triveni Mathur, a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Scholar at Mary Baldwin College in 2013, is Deputy-Director at the Symbiosis Center for Media and Communication in Pune, India. She taught courses on Contemporary India, Media Perspectives and Gandhi and Peacemaking as a Visiting Professor in Mary Baldwin College. Also a Rotary International Scholar,Dr. Mathur is a visiting professor at The Alliance for Global Education - India (HQ Washington DC), and has held several senior academic and advisory positions in leading Indian colleges and universities.A PhD in Communication & Journalism from Pune University, Dr. Mathur began her 27 year long career as a journalist with leading Indian media organizations -The Indian ExpressandThe Press Trust of India. She is also an author, translator, editor with published work.

Russell Menelly served in the U.S. Marines from 1943-1946 stationed first on Midway Island doing optical repair work and later as part of the Marine occupation of northern China. He later returned to Newton Massachusetts where he operated several small family businesses and where he now lives in retirement.

Daniel A. Métraux, editor of this journal, is Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies, Mary Baldwin College. He is former president of the SE Chapter, Association for Asian Studies and editor of its journal, The Southeast Review of Asian Studies. He has written or edited numerous book, book chapters and articles on Japanese and East Asian religion, history and politics including The Soka Gakkai Revolution (1994), Burma’s Modern Tragedy (2004) and The Asian Writings of Jack London (2010).

David Rapp was a career Marine colonel and later a math teacher at Fishburne Military Academy in Waynesboro, Virginia. He currently resides near Staunton, Virginia.

Margaret Richardson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Art and Art History at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. Dr. Richardson’s 2013 book Between Reality and Dream: The Aesthetic Vision of K. G. Subramanyan is reviewed in this issue of VRAS.

Dave Wang is the Manager of Queens Library at Laurelton, New York. He has taught as an Adjunct Professor at St. John’s University. Dr. Wang has examined the US founders’ efforts to draw positive elements from Chinese civilization. Dr. Wang has also delivered lectures and speeches on this topic at universities worldwide, including ones in Lisbon, London, New York, Rome, Singapore, and Tokyo. He has published dozens of articles on the influence of Chinese civilization on the Founding Fathers in academic magazines published in China, India, Japan, Italy and the United States. His most recent publication is “Defending the American Colonies: Benjamin Franklin’s Great Wall, 1756-1776,”Virginia Review of Asian Studies,Volume 17, 2015.

Chia-rong Wu is an assistant professor of Chinese Studies at Rhodes College. His primary research interests are modern Chinese literature and cinema with a focus on Sinophone and Taiwan Studies. Dr. Wu’s publications includeSupernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond(Cambria Press, 2016) and peer-reviewed articles by journals likeThe American Journal of Chinese Studies,New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, Studies on Asia, andASIANetwork Exchange.

Wendy Xie is Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department ofLanguages,Literatures, and Cultures, Appalachian State University. Shereceived her PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University. Herresearch interest is East Asian popular culture.

Toby Ziemba is a 2015 Honors Graduate in International Relations and Art at Mary Baldwin College. She is currently residing in France.

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