People

Yu Zhou, Director of LIASE 2017-2018

Professor of Geography, Vassar College

Yu Zhou received Bachelor and Master’s degree from Department of Regional and Environmental Sciences (formerly Geography) in Peking University, China, and received Ph.D. in geography from University of Minnesota in 1995.  Her current research is on globalization and high-tech industry in China.  More recently she has done researched into China’s green building program and urban sustainability.  In the United States, her works are more in the areas of ethnic business, gender and ethnic communities, and transnational business networks.  In 2008, she was selected as one of the twenty Public Intellectual Fellows by the National Committee on US-China Relations. She has been interviewed by New York Times, and Washington Post, Voice of America among others.

Fubing Su

Professor of Political Science, Vassar College

Fubing Su received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. Before joining Vassar College, he taught at Brown University for two years. He is also a member of the Asian Studies program. Fubing Su’s teaching interests include comparative politics, political economy, East Asian security, and Chinese politics. His research concerns contemporary Chinese political and economic developments, including electoral politics, village governance, local public finance, urbanization, land management, transition, and China’s growth model.

Kathleen M. Panebianco

Chinese and Japanese Department Administrative Assistant, Vassar College

Boyu Guo

Vassar Liase Student Assistant, Vassar College

 

LIASE has selected five professors and six students to participate in the first summer workshop on Shanghai water environment:

Faculty:

Alison Keimowitz (Assistant Professor of Chemistry)

alspodek@vassar.edu | https://bios.vassar.edu/alspodek.html

David J. Esteban (Associate Professor of Biology)

daesteban@vassar.edu | https://biology.vassar.edu/bios/daesteban.html

Jeffrey R. Walker (Professor of Earth Science)

jewalker@vassar.edu | https://earthscienceandgeography.vassar.edu/bios/jewalker.html

Mary Ann Cunningham (Associate Professor of Geography and Chair of Earth Science and Geography)

macunningham@vassar.edu | https://environmentalstudies.vassar.edu/bios/macunningham.html

Yu Zhou (Professor of Geography)

yuzhou@vassar.edu | https://earthscienceandgeography.vassar.edu/bios/yuzhou.html

Students:

Alexandra Reilinger

<areilinger@vassar.edu>  Major: Biology

Eilif Ronning

<eironning@vassar.edu> Major: Geography

George Diehl

<gediehl@vassar.edu>  Major: Chemistry

Jennie To

<jeto@vassar.edu> Major: Geography and Chinese

Shijie Guo

<sguo@vassar.edu> Major: Environmental Sciences

Xuewei Zhao

<xuzhao@vassar.edu> Major: Biology

LIASE intern 2017-2018:

Boyu Guo

<bguo@vassar.edu> Major: Art History