Affiliated Faculty

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Hippocrates Cheng

Affiliated Faculty at Asian and Asian American Studies; Assistant Professor of Music Theory

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Music

Research Interests

  • Music of Doming Lam (father of Hong Kong New Music)
  • East Asian and Southeast Asian music
  • Piano rolls and player piano in early jazz
  • Braille music notation
  • Anti-Asian hate and Asian diaspora
  • Contemporary chamber opera
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Hilary Izatt

Assistant Professor

Political Science

Research Interests

  • Experimental methods in social science
  • Political psychology
  • Comparative political behavior
  • Comparative authoritarianism
  • The United States, East Asia, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

Teaching Interests

  • Comparative authoritarianism
  • Comparative politics of Asia
  • Democratic decay in the United States
  • Survey and experimental methods
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Monika Mehta

Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title

English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Globalization
  • Diaspora and Cultural Production
  • Postcolonial Literature
  • New Media & Film Studies
  • Theories of Nation-State
  • Contemporary Critical Theory
  • Feminist and Sexuality Studies
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Tomonari Nishikawa

Chair; Professor

Cinema

Research Interests

  • Film and video art
  • Film projection performance
  • Film curation
  • Structural film
  • Minimalism in arts and music

Teaching Interests

  • 16mm filmmaking
  • Avant-garde and experimental film
  • Expanded cinema
  • Digital videomaking
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Yi Wang

Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title

History; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Late Imperial China
  • borderlands
  • migration
  • nationalism
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