Faculty and Staff
Program Coordinator
Kin Ma
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Geography and Sustainable Planning
(616) 331-3351
B-4-204 Mackinac Hall
makin [at] gvsu [dot] edu
Areas of interest: Geospatial Analyses/Mapping of Cultural and Linguistic Phenomena; Physical and Cultural Geography of East Asia; Satellite analyses of natural environments.
Faculty
Meghan Cai
Associate Professor (on sabbatical 2022-2023)
Ph.D., Arizona State University-Tempe
Modern Languages and Literatures
Area and Global Studies
(616) 331-2870
B-2-214 Mackinac Hall
[email protected]
Areas of interest: Early and Medieval Chinese Art and Literature
Yan Liang
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Modern Languages and Literatures,
Area and Global Studies
(616) 331-2405
D-2-144 Mackinac Hall
[email protected]
Kin Ma
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Geography and Sustainable Planning
(616) 331-3351
B-4-204 Mackinac Hall
makin [at] gvsu [dot] edu
Areas of interest: Geospatial Analyses/Mapping of Cultural and Linguistic Phenomena; Physical and Cultural Geography of East Asia; Satellite analyses of natural environments.
Jeremy Robinson
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Modern Languages and Literatures
Area and Global Studies
(616) 331-8907
D-2-136 Mackinac Hall
[email protected]
Affiliate Faculty
Wei Gu
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
College of Education and Community Innovation
(616) 331-6493
330-C Richard M. DeVos Center
[email protected]
Jason Herlands
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Modern Languages and Literatures
(616) 331-2940
D-2-104 Mackinac Hall
[email protected]
Kimberly McKee
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies (IRIS) Department
Areas of Interest: Asian transnational adoption; Asian American Studies; Asian American feminisms
(616) 331-8196
324A Lake Ontario Hall
[email protected]
Peimin Ni
Professor (on sabbatical Fall 2022)
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Philosophy Department
Areas of Interest: Chinese and Comparative Philosophy, Modern European Philosophy, Philosophy of Causation, and more distinctively his own approach, Gongfu (aka kung fu) Philosophy
(616) 331-3529
B-3-210 Mackinac Hall
[email protected]
Patrick Shan
Professor
Ph.D., McMaster University
History Department
Areas of Interest: East Asia, History of China, 20th-century
(616) 331-8504
D-1-130 Mackinac Hall
[email protected]
Geling Shang
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Temple University
Philosophy Department
(616) 331-2601
B-3-208 Mackinac Hall
[email protected]
Kirsten Strom
Professor
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Department of Visual & Media Arts
(616) 331-3483
1116 Calder Art Center
[email protected]
Wanxiao Sun
Professor
Ph.D., Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Department of Geography and Sustainable Planning
Areas of Interest: Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing Algorithms, image Understanding and Classification, Applications of Remote Sensing, GPS in Mapping and Monitoring the Earth’s Environments, Computer cartography, GIS and GIScience
(616) 331-8521
B-4-207 Mackinac Hall
[email protected]
Yosay Wangdi
Professor
Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno
History Department
Areas of Interest: South Asia, Tibet, History of India, Religion, Environmental History
(616) 331-3614
D-1-212 Mackinac Hall
[email protected]
Shinian Wu
Professor
Ph.D., Northern Arizona University
English Department
Areas of Interest: General Linguistic Theory, Second Language Acquisition, Pragmatics, and Language Assessment and Evaluation
(616) 331-3690
213 Lake Huron Hall
[email protected]
Gang Xu
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Department of Geography and Sustainable Planning
Area of Interest: Economic Geography, Urban Studies, Urban and Regional Development, GIS, International Business, Globalization, Tourism, China, East Asia
(616) 331-3068
B-4-206 Mackinac Hall
[email protected]
Lourdes (Huei Lan) Yen
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Oklahoma
Modern Languages and Literatures
(616) 331-8937
D-2-106 Mackinac Hall
[email protected]
Yan Yu
Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University
Sociology Department
Areas of Interest: Family, Gender, Immigration
(616) 331-3124
2153 Au Sable Hall
[email protected]
Peter Zhang
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University
School of Communications
Areas of Interest: Intersection of Rhetoric, Media Ecology, Cultural Studies, and the Chinese Culture
(616) 331-8168
273 Lake Superior Hall
[email protected]
Yi Zhao
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
Political Science Department
Areas of Interest: Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics, Judicial Politics
(616) 331-8523
1108 Au Sable Hall
[email protected]
Retired Faculty
Craig Benjamin
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Honors College
Areas of Interest: History with a focus on East Asia, Big History
Sufen Lai
Professor
English Department