Steering Committee Members
Xiao-huang Yin
Director, Global Studies Program in the Arts and Humanities
Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
302 Linton Hall
(517) 884-1706
yinx@msu.edu
Xiao-huang Yin (Ph.D., Harvard) has taught at Harvard University and Occidental College; represented U.S. educational organizations such as CIEE and IES in their China program reviews; served as a consultant for "The Global Equity Initiative" of Harvard University, and is currently on the advisory boards of the Journal of Transnational American Studies, and East Asia: An International Quarterly. Specializing in interdisciplinary studies of transnationalism, Asian Americans, modern China, and U.S.-China relations, Dr. Yin is the author of Chinese American Literature since the 1850s (University of Illinois Press, 2000) and co-editor of The Expanding Roles of Chinese Americans in U.S.-China Relations: Transnational Networks and Trans-Pacific Interactions (M.E. Sharpe, 2002).
Sandra Logan
Associate Professor, Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Department of English
222 Morrill Hall
(517) 353-1777
logans@msu.edu
Sandra Logan is Associate Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture in the Department of English at MSU. She is a co-founder of the Global Literary and Cultural Studies Research Cluster, for which she has served as Director for 5 years. She is also one of the founding faculty of the Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities program, and has participated actively in the development of the program. She is committed to cross-disciplinary research and collaborations, and is currently developing a course for the new Global Studies Major, on 'Early Modern Contestations: The Middle East and Europe,' focusing on a rethinking of the 'Crusades' and the social, economic, religious, and political dynamics between the Middle East and Europe in earlier times.
Richard Peterson
Professor and Chairperson
Department of Philosophy
503 S. Kedzie Hall
(517) 355-4490
petrsnrt@msu.edu
Richard Peterson earned his B.A. at the University of California at Berkeley, his M.A. at San Francisco State College, and his Ph.D. at SUNY/Buffalo. The focus of his research has been on social approaches to knowledge and rationality, conceptions of race and racism, differential forms of violence, and the promise of a human rights ethic. His main publications are Democratic Philosophy and the Politics of Knowledge (Penn State, 1996) and articles on Marx, Foucault, race, multiculturalism, human rights, and various aspects of violence. He is currently focusing on a manuscript that explores the different kinds of violence relevant to a critique of militarism. Occasionally he pursues interests in media theory and photography.
David Prestel
Acting Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts and Letters
Professor of Russian
Chairperson, Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages
A614 Wells Hall
(517) 353-0740
prestel@msu.edu
David Prestel (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Professor of Russian, Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages and Acting Associate Dean for Research in the College of Arts and Letters. He also serves as the co-director of the Center for the Support of Language Teaching at MSU. Areas of research interest are Early Slavic studies, Russian literature and culture of the nineteenth century and Russian language pedagogy.
