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Maureen-McClure

Given Name: 
Maureen
Family Name: 
McClure
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Professor
Department: 
Education
Office: 
5711 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Office phone number: 
412-648-7114
Regional specialty: 
China
Email Address: 
mmcclure@pitt.edu
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Qualifications: 
University of Rochester PhD in Education
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Publications: 

McClure, M.W. (2019). MOOCs, students, higher education and their paradoxes. Preparing students for life and work: Policies and reforms affecting higher education's principal mission. W. Archer and H. G. Schuetze (Eds.). Leiden: Brill. (pp.157-178). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004393073_009

McClure, M.W. (2018). Reframing education finance: Super wickedness, silver bullets, and educational inheritance. Voices of reform. 1(1), 157-178. https://doi.org/10.32623/1.00008

 

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Maureen-Porter

Given Name: 
Maureen
Family Name: 
Porter
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Rank: 
Professor
Department: 
Education
Office: 
5709 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Office phone number: 
412-648-7041
Regional specialty: 
China
Email Address: 
mporter@pitt.edu
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Developing place-based and culturally-inclusive pedagogies Generating feminist critiques of STE(A)M, educational leadership, and international development programs Sponsoring intercultural and international service-learning, global competence programs, and collaborative exchanges Fostering meaningful intergenerational community rituals Cultivating best practices in aesthetic education and arts-based research design
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Douglas-Hanley

Given Name: 
Douglas
Family Name: 
Hanley
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Rank: 
Assistant Professor
Department: 
Economics
Office: 
4507 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Office phone number: 
412-648-2828
Regional specialty: 
China
Email Address: 
doughanley@pitt.edu
Area of specialization: 
Macroeconomics, Technological Change, Computational Methods, Climate Economics

Daniel-Berkowitz

Given Name: 
Daniel
Family Name: 
Berkowitz
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Rank: 
Professor
Department: 
Economics
Office: 
4913 Wesley W. Posar Hall
Office phone number: 
412-648-7072
Regional specialty: 
China
Email Address: 
dmberk@pitt.edu
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New Institutional Economics, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics
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Amelia-Ying-Qin

Given Name: 
Amelia Ying
Family Name: 
Qin
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Rank: 
Visiting Lecturer
Department: 
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Office: 
2709 Cathedral of Learning
Office phone number: 
412-624-5568
Regional specialty: 
China
Email Address: 
ying.qin@pitt.edu
Area of specialization: 
The relationship and dynamics between cultural memory and historiography in anecdotal and historical narratives during the time period of 600-1300.
Qualifications: 
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chinese Literature
Publications: 
  • “Molded by Culture: Memories of the Wang Family from Taiyuan in Northern Song Genres and Networks.” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 47 (2017–2018): 33–84.
  • “An Introductory Study of the Tang yulin (Forest of Conversations on the Tang): Textual History, Source Material, and the Influences It Received.” Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 清華學報 (Special Issue on Song Dynasty Brush Jottings 宋代筆記專刊), New Series 48.2 (June 2018): 419–56.

Bei-Cheng

Given Name: 
Bei
Family Name: 
Cheng
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Rank: 
Instructor I
Department: 
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Office: 
2726 Cathedral of Learning
Office phone number: 
412-383-4503
Regional specialty: 
China
Email Address: 
beicheng@pitt.edu
Qualifications: 
MA, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, University of Iowa, 2016

Yiting-Cheng

Given Name: 
Yiting "Cathy"
Family Name: 
Cheng
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Rank: 
Instructor I
Department: 
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Office: 
2730 Cathedral of Learning
Office phone number: 
412-624-7141
Regional specialty: 
China
Email Address: 
ycc3@pitt.edu

Carla-Nappi

Given Name: 
Carla
Family Name: 
Nappi
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Rank: 
Mellon Professor
Department: 
History
Office: 
3904 WWPH
Office phone number: 
412-648-7478
Regional specialty: 
Asia
East Asia
China
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nappi@pitt.edu
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History of China History of Central Eurasia (especially Manchu studies) Translation History World History Historical Writing and Theory
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Ph.D. Princeton, 2006
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“Metamorphoses: Fictioning and the Historian’s Craft,” PMLA 133.1 (2018): 160-165.
“Paying Attention: Early Modern Science Beyond Genealogy,” Journal of Early Modern History 21 (2017): 459-470.
“The Gesture of Photographing” (with Dominic Pettman), thresholds 1 (2017). http://openthresholds.org/1/gestureofphotographing
“A Page at the Orchestra.” In Wendy Doniger, Peter Galison, and Susan Neiman, eds., What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature and History (De Gruyter, 2016), 221-227.
“Surface Tension: Objectifying Ginseng in Chinese Early Modernity.” In Paula Findlen, ed., Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500-1800 (Routledge, 2013): 31-52.
“Disengaging from ‘Asia’.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Society 6.2 (2012): 1-4.
The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China (Harvard University Press, 2009).

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Ruth-Mostern

Given Name: 
Ruth
Family Name: 
Mostern
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Rank: 
Associate Professor
Department: 
History
Office: 
3534 WWPH
Office phone number: 
(412) 648-7460
Regional specialty: 
Asia
East Asia
China
Email Address: 
mostern@pitt.edu
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History of China World History Spatial History Environmental History
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Qualifications: 
Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2003
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Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern:  The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276 CE), 2011 Harvard University Asia Center Monographs distributed by Harvard University Press.

Placing Names:  Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers, Indiana University Press 2016 (edited with Humphrey Southall and Merrick Lex Berman).

Don’t Just Build It, They Probably Won’t Come: Rethinking Data Sharing and the Social Life of Data in the Historical Quantitative Social Sciences, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 10.2 (2016), 205–224 (with Marieka Arksey).

Sediment and State in Imperial China: The Yellow River Watershed as an Earth System and a World System, Nature and Culture 11.2 (Summer 2016), 121-147.

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Haixia-Wang

Given Name: 
Haixia
Family Name: 
Wang
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Rank: 
Staff
Department: 
Asian Studies Center
Office: 
4135 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Office phone number: 
412-648-1954
Regional specialty: 
China
Email Address: 
haw27@pitt.edu
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Program Coordinator, Languages Across the Curriculum
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