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HUMANITIES
History (Medieval)
	Patrick J. Geary, PhD Professor of History (Medieval) Department of History University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, California, USA  Education 1974 Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, Yale University 1973 M.Phil. in Medieval Studies, Yale University 1970 A.B. summa cum laude in Philosophy, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama.
	Positions Professor of History, UCLA 1993-present Professor of History & Robert Conway Director, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, 1998-2000. Director, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, July, 1993 to1998 Director, UCLA Humanities Consortium, October, 1996 to 1998. Professor of History, University of Florida, 1986 to 1993. Associate Professor, University of Florida, 1980 to 1986. Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1974‑1980 Visiting Professor, Central European University, 2003. Lawrence Stone Visiting Professor, Princeton University, 2002. Directeur d'Etudes associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales, Paris, 1984, 1990, 2003. Gast Professor, Universität Wien, 1983 Books and monographs Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1978. Revised edition 1991. French translation Le Vol des Reliques. Aubier, 1993. Italian translation Coltura e Pensiero 2000. Aristocracy in Provence: The Rhone Basin at the Dawn of the Carolingian Age. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia; Anton Hiersemann Verlag, Stuttgart, 1985. Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of  the Merovingian World, Oxford University Press, New York, 1988. French translation, Le monde Mérovingien Flammarion, 1989. German Translation, Die Merowinger, C. H. Beck, 1996 Korean Translation Vistabooks, 1999. Civilization in the West, with Mark Kishlansky and Patricia O'Brien. New York, HarperCollins, 1990. Second revised edition 1995. Third revised edition 1997. The Unfinished Legacy: A Brief History of Western Civilization, with Mark Kishlansky and Patricia O'Brien. New York, HarperCollins, 1992. Societies and Cultures in World History, with Mark Kishlansky, Patricia O'Brien, and Bin Wong. New York, HarperCollins, 1994. Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1994. Japanese translation Hakusuisha Publishing Co., Ltd, 1999. Published electronically by ACLS History E-Book Project, 2002. Phantoms of Remembrance: Memory and Oblivion at the end of the first Millennium, Princeton University Press, 1994. French translation  Aubier 1996. Medieval Germany in America. German Historical Institute Annual Lecture 1995 (German Historical Institute, 1996). The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. German Translation: Europäische Völker im frühen Mittelalter. Zur Legende vom Werden der Nationen. Frankfurt: Fischer, 2002.
		Modules: 1. History Module 2. History Module 3. History Module
History (Japan)
	Gordon Berger, PhD Professor of History (Japan) Department of History University of Southern California (USC) Los Angeles, California, USA  Gordon Berger is professor of Japanese history at the University of Southern California, and served for fifteen years as the director of the USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Language and Area Studies National Resource Center. His research interests have spanned such topics as twentieth-century Japanese politics, economic development and international relations in East Asia. Dr. Berger has also traveled and lectured widely throughout Asia, including New Zealand and Australia. Educational Background: M.A. East Asian Studies, Yale University, 1966 Ph.D. in History from Yale University, 1972 Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute.
		Modules: 1. Origins of World War II in the Pacific 2. Comparative Perspectives on World War II in the Pacific 3. Consequences of World War II in the Pacific
History (Folkore)
	Timothy R. Tangherlini, PhD Professor of History (Korean Folkore) Chair of The Scandinavian Section Department of History University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, California, USA  Education 1992 — Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Department of Scandinavian. Fields: Folklore, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Danish Literature, Old Norse Language and Literature. 1986 — M.A., University of California, Berkeley. Department of Scandinavian. Fields: Old Norse Language and Literature, Modern Danish Literature. 1985 — A.B., Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Magna cum laude with highest honors in Folklore and Mythology.
	After college (AB in Folklore and Mythology) and graduate school (PhD in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures), I began my academic career in the Scandinavian Section at UCLA. My main areas of Scandinavian research are folklore, modern literature, film and Old Norse literature. My main Scandinavian language is Danish. Much of my research has focused on the study of storytelling in late nineteenth and early twentieth century rural communities in Denmark. I have considered the role witchcraft accusations play in these communities, as well as explored aspects of legends about the Black Death. I have also tried to answer the question, "When ghosts appear in the neighborhood, who ya' gonna call?" Indeed, my first book, Interpreting Legend, provides a methodology for the study of storytelling in small communities. I used much of this approach in my recent study of storytelling among paramedics, Talking Trauma, a consideration of storytelling in a contemporary American city. I have held appointments at the University of Copenhagen, where I directed the folklore program, and at Harvard University. Because of my work in Korean folklore and popular culture, my UCLA appointment was officially shared with the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department in 1998. I recently completed a documentary on punk rock in South Korea. While not selflessly slaving away to make my courses the most fulfilling of all possible experiences for my students, or engrossed in my exciting (albeit incredibly dangerous) research--dangerous largely because of the chemicals needed to properly analyze a text in my newly minted “decomposition" school of textual criticism--or engaging the challenging administrative tasks that are among the most rewarding aspects of the professorial enterprise, I can be found practicing my skeet shooting in the deserts east of the city. I also enjoy travel; I have visited New Jersey, Maryland and even once made it to Delaware. When not shooting or traveling, I engage my other passion--composing baroque sonatas for harpsichord and flugelhorn. In the evenings, I volunteer my spare time at a pancake cooperative in Agoura Hills and on the weekends, my wife and I, if not teaching neighborhood children how to make batik, are usually tending our clam beds in the waters north of Malibu. Books Nationalism and the Construction of Korean Identity. Co-edited with Hyung-Il Pai. Korea Research Monograph 25. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1999. Talking Trauma. Paramedics and Their Stories. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. Interpreting Legend. Danish Storytellers and Their Repertoires. Milman Parry Studies in Oral Tradition. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. Courses Taught - Introduction to Scandinavian Literature - Backgrounds of Scandinavian Literature - 20th Century Scandinavian Literature - Literature and Scandinavian Society - Theory of the Scandinavian Novel - Scandinavian Film - Scandinavian Folk Narrative
		1. Study of Folktales and Mythology 2. Folkmusic and Folk Performance 3. Shamanism and Ancestor Worship
History & Visual Media
	Robert A. Rosenstone, PhD Professor of History Division of the Humantities & Social Sociences California Institute of Technology (CalTech) Pasadena, California, USA  Founding Editor, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice Associate Editor, Film Historia My current research runs along two parallel lines, continuing the investigation of issues that have concerned me for the last two decades. One involves the intensely contemporary issue: what it means to construct works of history in a culture where the visual and the electronic media are not only supplementing but to a great extent replacing the written word as the chief means of communication. The other line has to do with creating alternative ways of presenting history (on the page, on the screen, on the internet), which of necessity involves questions of the relationship between historical data and argument, as well as that between fact and fiction.
	Publications Books: AUTHOR Crusade of the Left: The Lincoln Battalion and the Spanish Civil War - 1969 Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed - 1975 Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters in Meiji Japan - 1988 Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History - 1995 King of Odessa - 2003 The Man Who Swam Into History - 2005 History on Film / Film on History - 2006 Books: EDITOR AND CO-AUTHOR Protest from the Right - 1968 Seasons of Rebellion: Protest and Radicalism in Recent America - 1972 Los cantos de la conmocion: Veinte años de rock - 1974 Revisioning History: Filmmakers and the Construction of the Past - 1995 Experiments in Rethinking History - 2005
		1. History & Visual Media 2. Oliver Stone: The Filmmaker / Historian 3. Biography on Film
History Branch
		- U.S. History modules - African History module - Ancient History module - China History module - Europe History module - Latin America History module - World History module
Art History
	Louise Lewis, M.S. Director, CSUN Art Gallaries Professor Emeritus, Art History California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Northridge, California, USA Education Bio coming up
		Modules: 1. Art History Module 2. Art History Module 3. Art History Module
Literature
	Sara Melzer, PhD Associate Professor of French Literature Department of French & Francophone Studies University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, California, USA
		Modules: 1. Pascal 2. Moliere 3. Early Modern France's Colonization of the New World
	Christophe Lagier, PhD Associate Professor of French Department of Modern Languages & Literature College of Arts and Letters California State University, Los Angeles (CSLA) Los Angeles, California, USA Education PhD French Princeton University (1996) Princeton, NJ M.A. French San Diego State University (1989) San Diego, CA BA, Angelo-american language, literature & civilization (1986) Université de Paris X Nanterre, France
	Christophe Lagier, an Associate Professor of French at California State University Los Angeles and a regular faculty at Middlebury College Summer Language Schools, was born in Versailles, France and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1996. One of his specialties is post–World War 2 French theater. Among other scholarly publications, his book Le théâtre de la parole-spectacle: Jacques Audiberti, Jean Tardieu, et René de Obaldia (Summa: 2000) received positive reviews in major academic journals. Since 1987, he has been involved  in many Franco-American theater projects as actor, producer and director. Dr. Lagier is currently Chair of the AP French Test Development Committee. In 2004, France bestowed upon him the honor of Chevalier des Palmes Académiques, which recognizes the highest achievements in education.
		Modules: 1. 20th Century Literature Module 2. French Cinema Module
	Sunny Jung, Ed.D. Senior Lecturer Korean Language, Literature & Thoughts Humanities and Social Sciences Dept. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Santa Barbara, California, USA Education Ed.D., US International University M.Ed., Ewha Woman’s University B.S., Kongju National Teacher's College Sunny Jung works on Korean Zen poetry, classical poetic views & indigenous thoughts in modern poetry, multicultural education and teaching pedagogy . She taught in the U.S. and Korea including the University of Southern California , the University of California at San Diego and Irvine, the U.S. International University Osaka, and Defense Language Institute. She is a published poet ( The Gate of Zen, ‘1981 ), a translator ( Abiding Places Korea South & North by Ko Un, 2006), a yoga & meditation instructor and a recipient of national awards for teaching and writing.
	Classes Taught since 2001 at UCSB Korean Melodrama, Freshman Seminar-Korean Identity, Korean History & Civilization, Korean Literature & Film, Korean Society & Culture, Korean Business, Topics in Everyday Korean, Advanced Korean, Intermediate Korean, Korean for Natives, Elementary Korean.
	Selected Publications - “Trinity of Korean Yin & Yang Theory and Daily Life,” Educational Series Korea Times Los Angeles (2007~) - Abiding Places: Korea South and North , co-translated with Hillel Schwartz, Tupelo Press (2006) - “Funerals: Yoga and Poetry 1~36,” in the Journal of Waeji (Foreign Land), Vol. 18 (2006) - “A:m & Am: Cancer and Enlightenment” in the Journal of Waeji (Foreign Land ), Vol. 16 (2004) - “The Poetic Words in Contemporary Korean Poetry” in The Journal of Korean Language in America Vol. 8, Published by Korean Foundation (2003) - “The Best American Poetry 2000-2002” –translation-The Journal of An American Literature Quarterly, 1 Sijo-Sa Publishing Co. (2002) - “Challenges in Teaching Korean Zen Poetry " Journal of Korean Language in America 4, Korea Foundation (1999) - “Dragon and the Korean Consciousness shown on ‘ Worin-chonkang-jikok ” Journal of Han Minjok the Next Generation 2 Keimyong University (1998) - “Challenges on Korean Literature Education in the U.S.A. ” Collection of Commemoration Theses for Dr. Tea-Ha Jin” Myongji University (1998) - Literature International, Leading Contemporary Poets , Associate Editor, West Michigan University Press (1997) - Culture Shock among the international Students in the U.S. – Dissertation, U.S. International University (1988)
		Modules: 1. Korean Modern Poetry - Han Yong-un - Kim So-Wol - Ko Un 2. Korean Classical Poetry - Hyanga - Sijo
Philosophy
	Sherrilyn Roush, PhD Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy College of Letters and Science University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, USA  Education Ph.D. Philosophy, Harvard University Research Professor Roush is an associate professor of philosophy at UC Berkeley. Her philosophical interests are mainly in general philosophy of science, epistemology, probability, and logic. She has recently published Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evidence, and Science (2006), which develops a tracking theory of knowledge, a likelihood-ratio-based view of evidence integrated with it, and a novel approach to scientific realism. She is now working on the evolution of knowledge and logic, the function of reasoning, and a tracking-based account of justified belief.
		Modules: 1. Fallibility 2. Justification 3. Tracking
	Jiji Zhang, PhD Assistant Professor of Philosophy Division of the Humantities & Social Sociences California Institute of Technology (CalTech) Pasadena, California, USA  Education PhD., Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
	The primary research program I am currently engaged in --- with causal discovery and reasoning as its central subject --- has involved researchers from several different fields, including computer science, epidemiology, philosophy, psychology, social science, and statistics. As a philosopher, my participation in and contribution to this program is mostly motivated by my interest in the epistemology of causation and the methodology of causal inference. The major issue that concerns me is the possibility and extent of acquiring causal knowledge from statistical regularities, the kind of knowledge that supplies ground for causal explanation, counterfactual or subjunctive reasoning, and predictions of consequences of actions. I take two inspirations from the philosopher David Hume in doing this. First, our beliefs about cause and effect have a lot to do with observations of statistical regularities (of which "constant conjunction" is but a special case). Second, to justify causal inference, Reason need be supplemented by extra assumptions, and the "right" assumptions may be imposed by nature. The first alludes to statistical causal inference. The second suggests a division of the question of justification into two projects. On the one hand, there is the normative, means-ends epistemology about what assumptions authorize what inference, or what kind of reliability can causal inference methods possibly achieve under what assumptions. On the other hand, there is the question of the epistemic status of various assumptions, which, in light of Hume's naturalism, should concern cognitive and developmental psychologists as much as they concern philosophers of causation. I am interested in both projects. Besides the epistemology of causal inference, I have substantial interest in the so-called Bayesian epistemology and foundations of statistics. Recently I am concerned with the neo-Popperian, error-statistical theory of evidence, and how it can explain certain practices such as correction for multiple testing in statistical inference, as compared to a Bayesian approach. Inductive logic, of both the probabilistic brand and the non-probabilistic brand, is also part of my plan for future research.
		Modules: 1. Causal Reasoning with Data 2. Probability and Inductive Logic 3. Causation and Explanation
	Gary Kornblau Publisher, BukAmerica, Inc. Editor, Art issues Press Adjunct Associate Professor Art Center College of Design Pasadena, California, USA B.A Philosophy, U.C. Berkeley, 1983 M.A. Philosophy, Columbia University, 1986 M.Phil. Philosophy, Columbia University, 1987 Mr. Kornblau currently teaches "The Art of Thinking: An Introduction to Philosophy," a course for visual artists and designers at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. The popular course traces the history of philosophy from Plato's Cave to Friedrich Nietzsche's famous aphorism "God Is Dead," while introducing students to the classical problems of skepticism, free will, personal identity, and moral relativism. Mr. Kornblau recently founded a new press, BukAmerica, Inc., which exclusively publishes BüKs, 16-32 page pamphlets that retail for $1.49 and each contain one short story, provocative essay, collection of poems or pictures, or other surprising entertainment, readable in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee. Mr. Kornblau also founded Art issues Magazine in 1989. In its fourteen years and seventy editions, he built it into one of the most respected art journals in the United States. It was the longest running art magazine in Los Angeles history, contributing to and documenting the rise of the city's art scene to international prominence in the 1990s. In 1993, Mr. Kornblau created a small book press dedicated to publishing innovative, occasionally controversial creative nonfiction specializing in the visual arts and contemporary American culture. Art issues Press has released eight titles to date, including the classic “Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy” by MacArthur “Genius” Award winner Dave Hickey.
		Modules: 1. Free Will 2. Ethics: An Introduction 3. Philosophical Skepticism
Linguistics
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RELIGION
Christianity
	Dyron B. Daughrity, PhD, M.A. Assistant Professor of Religion Pepperdine University Malibu, California, USA  Education Ph.D., University of Calgary, 2005 M.A., Abilene Christian University, 1999 B.A., Lubbock Christian University, 1995
	Dyron Daughrity, Assistant Professor of Religion. B.A. (History of Christianity/Biblical Studies/Human Communication), Lubbock Christian University; M.A. (Inter-religious Dialogue/History of Christianity/Christian Theology), Abilene Christian University; Ph.D. (World Christianity/Inter-religious Dialogue/Colonialism and Christianity), University of Calgary (Dissertation: A Genuinely Human Existence: An historical investigation into the conflicted life of Bishop Stephen Neill up to the termination of his bishopric (1900-1945)). Dr. Daughrity was awarded four Research Scholarships by the Disciples of Christ (Canada) to travel to various countries including Switzerland, Malaysia, China, and India in order to conduct research. His Ph.D. dissertation has been accepted for publication, in addition to a book chapter and four scholarly articles that have been published. Courses Taught: Christianity and Culture: World Christianity History of Christianity (comprehensive overview) Religions of the World (Non-Western credit) Church History and Christian Theology ACADEMIC INTERESTS: Orthodox forms of Christianity including the Oriental Orthodox diaspora in the West Christianity in India Armenian Christianity Anglican Bishop Stephen Neill Buddhist-Christian dialogue Global Christian ecumenism Historiography and cartography in the study of Christianity SELECTED WORKS: Book: Bishop Stephen Neill: From Edinburgh to South India. NY: Peter Lang Publications, 2008. Book Chapter: "Under the Influence: Pneumatology in Global, Historical Perspective," in Peter Heltzel, ed., Chalice Introduction to Theology (Atlanta: Chalice Press, forthcoming). "A Dissonant Mission: Stephen Neill, Amy Carmichael, and Missionary Conflict in South India," in International Review of Mission, forthcoming. "The Literary Legacy of Stephen Neill," in International Bulletin of Missionary Research, forthcoming. "A History of the Tirunelveli Mission," in Indian Journal of Theology, forthcoming. "Stephen Neill, Missions, and the Ecumenical Movement," in International Review of Mission 94:375 (Oct. 2005). "Hinduisms, Christian Missions, and the Tinnevelly Shanars: A Study of Colonial Missions in 19th Century India," in Axis Mundi (March, 2005). "A Brief History of Missions in Tirunelveli: From Its Beginnings to Its Creation as a Diocese in 1896," in Bangalore Theological Forum 36 (June, 2004).
		Modules: 1. World Christianity Module 2. History of Christianity Module 3. Religions of the World Module
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