William & Mary Summer-in-Beijing Program 2013, Photo credit: Harini Manikandan

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Graduate Courses:

• Asian Solidarity Movements in the Twentieth Century (combined grad/undergrad seminar)
• Sinophone Studies: Borderlands and Border Crossing in the Chinese World
• Critical Studies in Asian Performance: Indonesia and China (co-taught with Nancy Florida)
• Rethinking China after 1949: New Approaches in PRC Cultural Studies

Undergraduate Courses:

• China in the World (bilingual research seminar)
• Dance in Asia and Asian Diasporas (first-year seminar)
• Introduction to Chinese Cinema (seminar)
• Introduction to Asian Studies (large lecture course)
• Revolution in Life: How Communism Changed China (first-year seminar)
• Contemporary Chinese Performance Culture (seminar)
• Dance in Modern Asia: History, Identity, Politics (seminar)
• Chinese Popular Culture (small lecture)
• Controversies in Contemporary China (seminar)
• 20th- and 21st-Century Chinese Literature in Translation (small lecture)
• China’s Global Cities (large lecture course)
• China in 10 Words: Foundational Ideas in Chinese Culture (first-year seminar)
• China in the Field: Experiencing Beijing Through Ethnography (study abroad course)
• East Asian Cultures through Film (small lecture)
• China and the Scientific Imagination (bilingual research seminar)
• Invented Traditions in 20th-Century China (bilingual research seminar)
• Theater, Dance, and Performance in China (first-year seminar)

Supervised Graduate Research:

Current PhD Advisees:

• Ruby Macdougall, PhD Candidate, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan (co-chair)
• Brenda Austin, PhD Candidate in Dance, Texas Women’s University (external committee member)
• Alissa Elegant, PhD Candidate in Dance, The Ohio State University (external committee member)
• Kristin Buhrow, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Emory University (external committee member)
• Chenyuan Ma, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Minzu University of China (international co-chair)
• Yujie Chen, PhD Candidate in Dance, The Ohio State University (external committee member)
• Yanmei Wu Bowie, PhD Student, Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh (external co-supervisor)

Completed PhDs:

• Yihui Sheng, PhD ’23, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, “‘Performative Reading’ and ‘Close Listening’ in Early Modern China: Chuanqi Song-Drama as Multimedia Form, 1550–1750” (committee member)
• Ziying Cui, PhD ’23, Dance, Temple University, “Dancing Chinese Nationalism: An Examination Into the Hybridity and Politics of Chinese Classical Dance and Ballet” (external committee member)
• Yucong Hao, PhD ’22, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, “Acoustics of Crisis: The Transnational Making of Auditory Culture in Revolutionary China, 1937-1976” (co-chair)
• Po-Hsien Chu, PhD ’21, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Maryland at College Park, “The Experimental Aesthetics of Global Sinophone Theatre: the Present, the Absent, and the Avant-Garde” (external committee member)
• Jingqiu Guan, PhD ’21, Cultural and Performance, University of California, Los Angeles, “Choreographing Postsocialist China: New Experiments in Screendance Since the Early 1990s” (external committee member)
• Angie Baecker, PhD ’20, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, “Reimagining Revolutionary Labor in the People’s Commune: Amateurism and Social Reproduction in the Maoist Countryside” (co-chair)

Completed MA/MFAs:

• Duoduo Wang, MFA ’22, Department of Dance, University of Michigan (committee member)
• Chad Westra, MA ’20, Masters in International and Regional Studies/Chinese Studies, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and International Institute, University of Michigan, “Mediating Modernity through Tradition: Cultural Conservatives in China’s Vernacular Movement”  (second reader)
• LJ Foust, MFA ’19, Department of Dance, University of Michigan, “Exploring the Complexities of Jazz Funk” (committee member)
• Raymond Hsu, PhD Student, Asian Languages and Cultures and Anthropology, University of Michigan / MA ’19, Asian Studies: China, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and International Institute, University of Michigan, “Popular Religious Practices in Nationalist-era Taiwan (1945-1987): Revisiting the Cultural Impact of Political Control and Economic Transformation on Local Tradition” (co-advisor)
• Weihang Wang, MA ’18, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, “After Work: Workers’ Cultural Life and Amateur Art Production in Mao’s Factories” (co-advisor)
• Ting Su, MA ’16, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, “Historicizing Tibetan Dance in China: Contact Zones and Cross-Ethnicity Collaborations” (primary advisor)

Past Graduate Mentees:

• Cameron White, PhD Student, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan (first-year co-advisor; qualifying exam committee member)
• Elizabeth Chan, PhD Candidate ABD, Theatre Studies, National University of Singapore (qualifying exam committee member)
• Zhiwen Gong, Masters in International and Regional Studies/Chinese Studies, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and International Institute, University of Michigan (first-year advisor)
• Sofia Reed, MA Student, Masters in International and Regional Studies/Chinese Studies, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and International Institute, University of Michigan (first-year advisor)
• Chuyi Zhu, PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology, University of Michigan (cognate committee member)
• Adelina Pinzaru, PhD Student, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan (mentoring committee member)
• Jihun Suk, MA ’20, Masters in Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan (mentoring committee member)

Supervised Undergraduate Honors Theses:

• Xincheng (Andrew) Hou (WM ’24): “Legitimizing the Myth of the Nation: Mass Media Historical Writings on Qigong Fever in Mainland China between the 1980s and the 2020s” (committee member)
• William Anderson (WM ’22): “The Role of Homeownership in Taiwan’s Low Fertility Story”
• Jiahao Liu (UM ’21): “Chinese National Day Civilian Parades and the Signaling of Policy Change in the Reform Era” (second reader)
• Yingchao He (UM ’20): “Fashioning Political Leadership in the People’s Republic of China: A Case Study of Xi Jinping’s Cadre Jacket” (second reader)
• Huaming Ji (UM ’20): “Whisper Softly and Yell Loudly: A Comparative Study of Cantopop and Beijing Rock and Roll Music” (primary advisor)
• Matthew Nolan (UM ’19): “Exercising Power: How the People’s Republic of China Worked to Boost Physical Fitness and Build a Strong Nation” (primary advisor)
• Elena Hubbell (UM ’18): “A Beautiful Uyghur Revolutionary: Anarhan and Female Uyghur Representation in Modern China” (primary advisor)
• Hannah Feldshuh (UM ’16): “Gender, Sexism, and Marriage Practice in Contemporary China: A Study of ‘Shengnü’ (‘Leftover Women’) in Popular Media” (primary advisor)
• Elise Huerta (UM ’14): “Iron Girls and Hallyu Heroines: Female Ideals in the Mao Era and Korean Wave and Their Impact on Chinese Women’s Lives” (primary advisor)
• Emily Matson (W&M ‘12) “Nationalism and the Nanjing Massacre: Jiang Zemin’s Patriotic Education Campaign in the 1990s and Its Repercussions on Sino-Japanese Relations” (primary advisor)
• Austin Strange (W&M ’12) “The Non-Combat Operations of China’s Armed Forces in the 21st Century: Historical Development, Current Drivers and Implications for Military Projection” (committee member)
• Yuezhu Sun (W&M ’12) “Family, Country, and the World (家国天下): A study of Beijing Families under the One-Child Policy” (committee member)