Faculty
Forty-six years of experience, 26 in academe and 20 in corporate marketing.
Ph.D., Chicago (1968)
Office Hours: MWF 9-11:30; 1:30-3:20 or by appt.
Research Areas:
Linguistic anthropology, typology, in situ research methods, media archives, language documentation, digital humanities; China, Inner Asia, Central Asia
His website contains extensive information on politics in East Central Europe and Eurasia.
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.
His interests include comparative politics, Chinese politics, and rural political development.
Her research interests are the art-historical study of calligraphy, aesthetics and Buddhist sculpture of the medieval period (300-800 C.E.) in China.
Her research interests focus on social change in the Third World and in Eurasia, with particular attention to gender, culture, and socio-political change.
Her research interests are resource conflicts, human dimensions of global change, geopolitics of the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Her scholarly interests include Eurasian security, counterterrorism and human rights, international human rights, and non-governmental actors of world politics.
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.
He teaches courses on religions of East Asia with a specific interest in Buddhism.
