| Faculty Director Dali L. Yang |
Business, Economics & Policy Gary S. Becker Thomas Ginsburg Christopher K. Hsee |
Culture, Society & The Arts Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer Judith Farquhar James Hevia (ex officio) Wu Hung |
Science, Medicine & Public Health Ka Yee C. Lee J. Michael Millis, MD Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD (ex officio) Renslow Sherer, MD |
Chair: Dali Yang
Professor of Political Science and in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division; Faculty Director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing; Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Chicago
Dali L. Yang is Professor of Political Science and founding Faculty Director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing. He previously served as director of the East Asian Institute in Singapore and is former Chairman of the Department of Political Science, former director of the Center for East Asian Studies and of the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago.
Among Professor Yang’s books are Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China (Stanford University Press, 2004); Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society and Institutional Change since the Great Leap Famine (Stanford University Press, 1996); Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China (Routledge, 1997). He is also editor or co-editor of several other volumes and the author of many articles. He was a team member and contributor to The United States and Rise of China and India, by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Professor Yang has served on the editorial boards of leading academic journals, including American Political Science Review, Journal of Contemporary China, and World Politics. He has been a board member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and a consultant to industry, government agencies, and the World Bank.
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Business, Economics & Policy
Gary S. Becker
University Professor of Economics, Sociology, and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Gary S. Becker has pioneered study in the fields of human capital, economics of the family, and economic analysis of crime, discrimination, addiction, and population. He is the author of more than 12 books and more than 50 articles.
Professor Becker won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992. He also is the Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a Research Associate of the Economics Research Center at the National Opinion Research Center, and an associate member of the Institute of Fiscal and Monetary Policy for the Ministry of Finance in Japan.
Professor Becker is a founding member of the National Academy of Education and a fellow in the American Statistical Association, the Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He also is a member of the American Economic Association, of which he was president in 1987. A long-time faculty member of the University of Chicago, Becker joined the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business in 2002. He was an assistant professor in economics at the University of Chicago from 1954 to 1957, and taught at Columbia University from 1957 to 1969.
Professor Becker completed his undergraduate work summa cum laude in mathematics at Princeton University, and earned a master’s degree and a PhD from the University of Chicago, where his doctorate was awarded in 1955. Becker also holds honorary degrees from several institutions, including Princeton University, Harvard University, Columbia University, and Hitoshibashi University in Japan.
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Thomas Ginsburg
Leo Spitz Professor of International Law and Professor of Political Science
Thomas Ginsburg focuses on comparative and international law from an interdisciplinary perspective. He currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, an effort funded by the National Science Foundation to gather and analyze the constitutions of all independent nation-states since 1789. One of his books, Judicial Review in New Democracies (Cambridge University Press 2003), won the C. Herman Pritchett Award from the American Political Science Association for best book on law and courts.
Before entering law teaching, he served as a legal adviser at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands, and consulted with numerous international development agencies and foreign governments on legal and constitutional reform. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, Kyushu University, Seoul National University, the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Trento. He holds BA, JD, and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Christopher K. Hsee
Theodore O. Yntema Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Christopher K. Hsee conducts research on the interplay between psychology and economics, happiness, marketing, and cross-cultural psychology. Professor Hsee’s research has been published in a wide range of academic journals and featured in the media. His most recent articles include “Prominence effect in Shanghai apartment prices” forthcoming in Journal of Marketing Research, and “Hedonomics: Bridging decision research with happiness research” forthcoming in Perspectives on Psychological Science. Hsee’s research has earned him invitations to speak at almost all the prominent universities in the U.S. and China. He was recently awarded the McKinsey Award for excellence in teaching and the Phoenix Award for his involvement in student life both in the classroom as well as in extracurricular and community activities.
In addition to teaching and research, Professor Hsee serves or has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Behavior Decision Making, and Management and Organization Review. He has served as an ad hoc reviewer for nearly two dozen more.
Professor Hsee earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Hawaii in 1989 and a PhD from Yale University in 1993. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 1993.
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Culture, Society & The Arts
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer
Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor in Classics and the College.
Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer is an expert in humanities, classical rhetoric, ancient novels, and Classical Roman culture and literature. She specializes in teaching on the subject of Roman literature and culture.
She is the author of Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius (Princeton University Press, 1989), Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian (Princeton University Press, 1994), Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan’s Civil War (Harvard University Press, 1998), and The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire (University Of Chicago Press, 2006).
Among her many honors and awards are the University’s Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching and being among “40 under Forty” in Crain’s Chicago Business Journal. She delivered the 499th University commencement address in August 2009. Professor Bartsch-Zimmer graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelors of Arts from Princeton University in 1987. She earned a Masters of Arts in Latin from the University of California Berkeley and was awarded a Ph.D. in Classics in 1992.
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Judith Farquhar
Max Palevsky Professor and Chairman of Anthropology and in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division
Judith Farquhar, a leading expert on traditional medicine in China, is the Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1986. Farquhar does research on traditional medicine, popular culture, and everyday life in contemporary China. Anthropological areas of interest include medical anthropology; the anthropology of knowledge and of embodiment; critical theory and cultural studies; and theories of reading, writing, and translation.
Ms. Farquhar has done extensive fieldwork, including research on self-care techniques and health attitudes on the part of urbanites in Beijing. She also has studied entrepreneurial medicine in northern China and conducted field research on case management in traditional Chinese medicine at the Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
She is the author of Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China and Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine ( Duke University Press, 2002; translation in Chinese in 2007) Farquhar also served as president of the Society for Cultural Anthropology from 2005 to 2007.
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James Hevia
Professor of History and in the New Collegiate Division; Director of the International Studies Program
James Hevia’s research focuses on empire and imperialism in eastern and central Asia. His field specialties are modern China, the British Empire, Imperialism and Colonialism, and global studies. Primarily dealing with the British Empire in India and Southeast Asia and the Qing Empire in China, his research has centered around discovering the causes and justifications for conflict; how empire in Asia became normalized within Europe through markets, exhibitions and various forms of public media; and how the events of the nineteenth century are remembered in contemporary China. Dr. Hevia’s current research centers on how European empires in Asia developed and became dependent upon the production of useful knowledge about populations and geography to maintain themselves, focusing on British military intelligence in India from 1870 through the interwar period. In order to produce authoritative estimations of threats to British hegemony, military engineers, cartographers, statisticians, and translators created an information system that linked their “reconnaissance” missions to their vast library of contemporary source materials in multiple languages from northeast, southeast and south Asia, the Middle East and east Africa.
Dr. Hevia received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1986.
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Wu Hung
Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Chinese Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations and in the Humanities Collegiate Division; Faculty Curator, Smart Museum of Art; Director, Center for the Art of East Asia
Wu Hung specializes in early Chinese art, from the earliest years to the Cultural Revolution. His special research interests include relationships between visual forms (architecture, bronze vessels, pictorial carvings and murals, etc.) and ritual, social memory and political discourses.
Wu Hung is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of American sinology in systematically comparing texts and visual signs. Since the 80s he has also furthered the appreciation of contemporary Chinese art in the USA. In the mid-80s he curated a series of exhibitions at Adam’s House at Harvard University, to which he invited today internationally renowned representatives of contemporary Chinese art like Mu Xin, Chen Danqing, Luo Zhongji, Zhang Hongtu und Qiu Deshu, who had never been invited to the USA before. Wu Hung has published many books and written articles and exhibition-texts about contemporary Chinese art and visual culture, and in 2005 he curated the festival About Beauty in the House of World Cultures in Berlin. During this festival the former Congress Hall was turned into a unified work of art. His recent publications include: Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space (2005). This book describes the metamorphoses of the “Square of Heavenly Peace” as a setting for political legitimization in the course of the last century up to the present.
He grew up in Beijing, where he studied and qualified in art history at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. From 1973-78 he was on the research staff in the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City then moved to Harvard University, where he gained a doctorate in art history and anthropology in 1980. He began teaching there the same year. On becoming a professor in 1994, he left Harvard to teach at the University of Chicago.
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Science, Medicine & Public Health
Ka Yee C. Lee
Professor of Chemistry and in the Physical Sciences Collegiate Division, James Franck Institute, and the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics
Ka Yee Lee conducts research on lung surfactant, a complex mixture of lipids and proteins that assists the breathing process. Her work is designed to better understand the molecular causes behind the proper functioning of the lung and to help explain how specific chemical or physical alterations in lung surfactant might lead to Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Lee also studies beta amyloid, a plaque-forming substance implicated in the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease.
Other projects include targeting selectivity of antimicrobial peptides, the use of polymers as membrane sealants, and the interactions between lipids and cholesterol in the cell membrane.
Her many honors include research fellowships from the Alfred Sloan Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Biophysical Society’s Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award, and “40 Under 40″ recognition from Crain’s Chicago Business.
Professor Lee was a postdoctoral fellow with Stanford University from 1992–94. She was accepted as a National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow from 1994–95, and is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. Ms. Lee received her Bachleors of Science from Brown University in 1986. She received her Masters of Science degree from Harvard University in 1987, and was awarded a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1992.
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J. Michael Millis, MD
Professor of Surgery; Chief of the Section of Transplantation; Medical Director of Transplantation Services
Dr. Michael Millis is an expert in adult and pediatric transplant surgery. His clinical interests include liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery. He has performed more liver transplants than any other surgeon in the region. Dr. Millis has pioneered new techniques of operating on the liver, and his innovations have helped the University of Chicago perform more liver transplants than any other program in the region over the past 15 years.
Dr. Millis’s research explores the application of cellular technology to patient care, such as investigating how hepatocyte transplantation, extracorporeal assist technology and stem cells can assist in the care of patients with liver disease or liver tumors.
Dr. Millis received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee in 1985, and after completing his residency training at the University of California at Los Angeles, School of Medicine, he started his practice in 1994. He is board certified for surgery by both the American Board of Surgery in Chicago, Illinois and the National Board of Medical Examiners, Los Angeles, California.
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Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD
Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service; Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Human Genetics, Section of Hematology/Oncology; Director of the Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program; Director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics and Global Health; Associate Dean for Global Health
Dr. Olopade’s research goal is to bridge the gap between basic science and clinical practice through integrated bench to bedside research. As Director of the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics, Dr. Olopade has established a robust infrastructure to study the disproportionate burden of breast cancer in women of African decent using a large cohort of breast cancer cases in the African Diaspora. Her research group seeks to further understanding the genetic and epigenetic alterations, which characterize human cancer in a way that will eventually lead to early diagnosis, more effective treatment and prevention of cancer. These genetic-epidemiology studies will allow the study of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions in cancer etiology.
Dr. Olopade is an Executive Council Member of the African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC), an organization dedicated to the promotion of cancer control in Africa. AORTIC’s key objectives are to further research relating to cancers prevalent in Africa; support the management of training programs in oncology for healthcare workers, and to deal with the challenges of creating cancer control and prevention programs, as well as raising public awareness of cancer in Africa. Dr. Olopade will utilize AORTIC’s established infrastructure to organize a network for cancer-related research activities of the Initiative.
Dr. Olopade received her medical degree from the University of Ibadan in 1980.
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Renslow Sherer, MD
Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Global Health; Associate Director of Education of the Global Health Initiative
Dr. Sherer has had extensive global health experience for the past five years as the Director of Infectious Diseases for Project HOPE. As a member of the DHHS ART Guideline Panel and a member of the Free ART Guideline Panel in Beijing, China, he is a recognized international leader in HIV and related infectious diseases. Dr Sherer has had experience in a variety of research activities, including leadership in clinical trials, observational studies, health service outcome studies, and model programs, including cutting edge international health interventions such as integrated TB/HIV programs (Malawi and Ukraine), micro credit in support of orphans (Namibia and Mozambique), community-based HIV care and home based care (China, Mozambique, and Honduras), and rapid ART scale up with health worker training (China and Malawi). He also has experience with outcomes research in a variety of HIV prevention programs, including youth, workplace, mobile populations, and women. In addition, he has an interest in medical education and health worker training in infectious diseases and general internal medicine. He was the Co-Director of the National Resource Center for the HRSA-sponsored AIDS Training and Education Centers in the US from 1999-2002, and the Chairman of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Breakthrough Collaborative in HIV that involved 75 Title III Clinics in the US from 2000–2003. His current project is for five years starting in July, 2008, to reform medical education at Wuhan University in Hubei Province, China.
Dr. Sherer is the author of numerous national and international publications and presentations addressing the AIDS pandemic. He attended Princeton University and King’s College, London, before receiving his medical degree from Rush University, where he served as Associate Professor of medicine from 1998-2003.