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Frederick Carriere
Pacific Century Institute Senior fellow
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Frederick Carriere teaches seminars on contemporary foreign policy and Track II diplomacy related to Korea. Currently, he also is a consulting professor at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. All of Carriere's professional experience is Korea-related, including a fifteen-year career (1994-2009) as the executive vice president of The Korea Society in New York City. Prior to assuming that position, Carriere lived in Korea for a period of over twenty years (1969-1993). During most of those years he was employed by the Korea Fulbright Commission (Korean-American Educational Commission), initially as its educational counseling officer (1979-83) and later as its executive director (1984-1993). In the latter role, Carriere was also responsible for all the Korea-based programs of the East West Center, the Humphrey Fellowship Program and the Educational Testing Service. He also was president of the Royal Asiatic Society–Korea Branch for two years (1989-91) and a councilor for over a decade. Other relevant professional activities include service as an instructor in the overseas division of the University of Maryland (1980-1982) and a translator at the Korean National Commission for UNESCO (1977-1980). |
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Margarita Estevez-Abe
Associate Professor of Political Science
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Margarita Estévez-Abe teaches courses on "Japanese Political Economy," and "Comparative Political Economy of Gender." As reflected in her course offerings, Professor Estévez-Abe's research interests include Japanese politics and economy, comparative political economy, and studies of gender inequality. Professor Estévez-Abe’s research explores how institutions constrain economic and political actors’ behavior. Professor Estévez-Abe's award-winning book Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2008) builds a new institutional model of welfare politics to situate Japan’s welfare state in a comparative perspective and also to explain historical shifts in Japan. More info... |
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Gareth Fisher
Assistant Professor of Religion
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Gareth Fisher is an Assistant Professor of Religion at the College of Arts and Sciences. His work focuses on the revival of lay Buddhism in contemporary mainland China particularly in Beijing, where he recently completed two years of ethnographic research at the Temple of Universal Rescue (Guangji Si). He teaches courses in Buddism, Morality and Community, Religions of the World. Gareth recieved a B.A. in Religious Studies from Grinnell College, M.A. in Religion from Columbia University, Ph.D in Anthropology from University of Virginia. More info... |
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Jeehee Hong
Assistant Professor of Art History
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Jeehee Hong is an Assistant Professor of Art History, specializes in the ritual art of middle-period China (9th-14th centuries). Her research interests include funerary art and culture, locality of ritual and visual practices, links between the social and the visual. She received her B.A. from Yonsei University in Seoul, M.A. from Yonsei University (History) and The University of Chicago (Art History), and Ph.D. from The University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at Syracuse University, she was a Mellon-Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College. More info... |
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George Kallander
Assistant Professor of History
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George Kallander is Assistant Professor of History. His main research interest is late nineteenth and early twentieth century Korean history, particularly the construction of tradition and the role of religion and religious nationalism in Korea抯 transition to modernity. Professor Kallander recently completed a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. He received B.A. from University of Michigan, M.A. from Columbia University, and Ph.D. from Columbia University. More Info... |
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Soonhee Kim
Professor of Public Administration
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Soonhee Kim is a Professor of the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Professor Kim's areas of expertise include public management, strategic human resources management, electronic government, local governance and leadership development. A native of Cheongjoo, South Korea, Kim holds a bachelor's degree in public administration from Ewha Women's University and M.P.A degrees from Korea University and the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy of the University at Albany. She received her Ph.D in Public Administration and Policy from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy of the University of Albany, State University of New York. More Info... |
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Norman Kutcher
Associate Professor of History
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Norman Kutcher is Associate Professor of History, specializes in late imperial Chinese history. His research interests include Confucianism, orthodoxy, the nature of imperial power, and the domestic life of emperors. He is the author of Mourning in Late Imperial China: Filial Piety and the State (1999). His current research project is a study of Yuanming Yuan, the primary residence of Qing emperors which was destroyed by European powers in 1860. He received B.A. from Wesleyan University, J.D. from Boston College Law School, and M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. More Info... |
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Terry Lautz
Interim Director, East Asia Program
Moynihan Research Fellow
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Terry Lautz teaches on the history and politics of U.S.-China and U.S.-Asia relations. His recent publications deal with Sino-American cultural and educational relations, mutual perceptions, and missionary history. Dr. Lautz, former vice president of the Henry Luce Foundation in New York, is a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a trustee of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has served as board chair of the Lingnan Foundation and the Yale-China Association. He was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC in 2010. He holds a B.A. from Harvard College and Ph.D. from Stanford University. |
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Jing Lei
Associate Professor, School of Education
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Jing Lei is Assistant Professor of Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation at the School of Education. Jing Lei's research interests include educational technology integration, meaningful technology use in schools, social-cultural and psychological impact of technology, teacher technology professional development, and international and comparative education. Her most recent research concerns how the use of technology both influences and is influenced by teachers, students, and school systems. She teaches courses in instructional design, development and evaluation. She holds a masters degree in higher education and comparative education from Peking University and the Ph.D. in learning, technology and culture from Michigan State University. More Info... |
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Mary Lovely
Professor of Economics
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Mary E. Lovely is Associate Professor of Economics at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where she combines interests in international economics and public economics. Dr. Lovely's earlier work considered the measurement of labor market effects of increased international trade, on the distributional effects of industrial policy, on the geographic concentration of exporting firms, and on the welfare effects of smuggling. She has studied the optimal design of commodity taxes when consumers cross borders to shop in lower‑taxing jurisdictions as well as the benefits and costs of restricting this activity. Dr. Lovely earned her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds a master抯 degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University. She has taught at Syracuse University since 1988. More info... |
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Alex Tan
Associate Professor, School of Information Studies
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Alex (Zixiang) Tan is Associate Professor of the School of Information Studies. He teaches in the Telecommunications and Network Management area. His current research and teaching interests include telecommunications policy and regulation, new technology development and applications, industry restructure and competition. Tan received his Ph. D. degree in Telecommunications Policy and Management from Rutgers University in New Jersey. He holds both a Bachelor and a Master degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Alex has a second Master degree in Communications and Information Technology Policy from SPRU of the University of Sussex in UK. More info... |
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Stuart Thorson
Professor of Political Science and International Relations
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Stuart Thorson is Professor of Political Science and International Relations. He is involved with a multidisciplinary team doing research in the area of systems assurance. His particular interest within this area involves e-governance and questions of privacy and security. Thorson's research focuses on the impact of information and communications technologies on governance. Thorson also directs the interdisciplinary graduate certificate program in Information Technology, Policy, and Management. He received a B.A. from Macalester College and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. More Info... |
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