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Bob Basow

Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism. His research interests include consumer research on media habits and preferences in emerging democracies.


Leslie Dienes

Professor in the Department of Geography. He teaches and researches the former Soviet Union and East-Central Europe, resources and regional socio-economic development. E-mail: dienes@ku.edu


Arienne Dwyer

Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology. She can be contacted for questions pertaining to courses on Uyghur offered at KU.


Marsha Haufler

Professor in the Department of Art History. Her interests are in later Chinese art and is currently Acting Director of the Center for East Asian Studies for the academic year 2005-2006. E-mail: mhaufler@ku.edu


Erik Herron

Director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. His website contains extensive information on politics in East Central Europe and Eurasia. E-mail: eherron@ku.edu


John Kennedy

Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. His interests include comparative politics, Chinese politics, and rural political development. E-mail: kennedy1@ku.edu


Wallace Johnson

Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He is the editor of the online journal Journal of Asian Legal History, which contains searchable editions of the Tang Code and the Qing Code. His research interests include Chinese Philosophy, and Chinese and Asian legal history.


Amy McNair

Associate Professor in the Department of Art History. Her research interests are the art-historical study of calligraphy, aesthetics and Buddhist sculpture of the medieval period (300-800 C.E.) in China. E-mail: amcnair@ku.edu


Mehrangiz Najafizadeh

Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. Her research interests focus on social change in the Third World and in Eurasia, with particular attention to gender, culture, and socio-political change. E-mail: najafizadeh@ku.edu


Shannon O'Lear

Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography. Her research interests are resource conflicts, human dimensions of global change, geopolitics of the Caucasus and Central Asia. E-mail: olear@ku.edu


Margaret Rausch

Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies. She teaches courses on religions of East Asia and the course REL 602: Women in Islam. Professor Rausch will also teach REL 350 Special Topics in Religion: Islam in the Spring 2006 semester. She leads the spring break study abroad program to Turkey. E-mail: mrausch@ku.edu


Daniel Stevenson

Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies. He teaches courses on religions of East Asia with a specific interest in Buddhism. (On sabbatical in Fall 2006).