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Ms. Ren Yuhong, a lecturer at the College of Animal Science and Technology at Shanxi Agricultural University (SAU) in China, is a Shansi International Education Fellow. During her tenure at SAU, she authored numerous publications on animal science. The area of her current study includes animal diseases, reproduction and biological characteristics of alpaca. Ms. Yuhong is auditing some courses in cell and molecular biology and is participating in lab work at Oberlin College, and is planning to attend a professional conference relevant to her field in the US. She also hopes to contribute to and enhance mutual understanding and friendship between the Oberlin College community and Shanxi Agricultural University. |
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Dr. M. Tamilarasi, Shansi International Education Fellow, is a lecturer in the Tamil Department at Lady Doak College, Madurai India. The courses that she has taught include Modern Tamil Literature, Women’s Studies and Linguistics as well as translation and service and learning. In India, she is an active member in the Service – Learning program at Lady Doak College, and works for literacy and training programs for women and children. While at Oberlin, Dr. Tamilarasi will be working with the Oberlin College Center for Service and Learning to understand how community service in America operates within its cultural and social context. She also hopes to understand women’s issues in the US, and to share her studies on women’s issues in India with Oberlin community. |
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Li Xiaoya, a lecturer of English at Yunnan University in Kunming, China is also in Oberlin this semester as a Shansi International Education Visiting Scholar. She has published several articles on English teaching. In Oberlin she is conducting research to develop her Ph.D. dissertation proposal concerning the literature and history of the United States south, focusing on women’s roles in American literature through the work of William Faulkner. She is auditing a course on Faulkner with John Olmsted. She also hopes to learn about comparative American studies and American feminism. She believes that her stay in Oberlin will broaden her perspective and is looking forward to meeting with Oberlin faculty members and students who are interested in her research and culture. |
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Titisari Handayani (Yani), is Head Librarian at Gadja Mada University (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She manages the American Corner of the main Gadjah Mada Library and is responsible for creating programs that make recent US news, studies and literatures accessible to the campus and community at large. In June 2003 Yani organized the first international conference of librarianship at UGM in collaboration with the British Council and the US Embassy in Jakarta. She also collaborated with Ohio & Enche Marketing (OCLC) to organize an exhibition of children’s books. As a Shansi International Education Visiting Scholar at Oberlin Yani is working closely with Haipeng Li and other librarians to gain a broader knowledge of Library Human Resource development and library outreach programs. Based on her observations and participation at Mudd Library, she wants to implement new programs and events that attract students and community members to the Gadjah Mada library upon her return to Indonesia. |
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Silas Ebenezar Asirvatham, an Associate Professor in the Zoology Department of The American College, Madurai, India, is in Oberlin this semester as a Shansi International Education Visiting Scholar. He specializes in Bioinformatics, Computer Applications in the Biological Sciences and Environmental Sciences. He is also in charge of academic placement and learning assistance for students with vision impediments at the American College. Currently, he is auditing Environmental Systems Modeling, with John Peterson and Mathematical Methods for Computational Neuroscience with Peter Thomas. A practioner of yoga, Silas is also auditing the Hatha Yoga course of Eric Stewart to make comparisons between the type of yoga he generally practices in India and the type being taught in Oberlin. He is particularly interested in water quality management, and wishes to visit the water and sewage treatment plant as well as the recycling facility in Oberlin. He has been involved with planning the dredging of a deep-water trench/channel between Sri Lanka and India so that deep ocean vessels can pass through the strait. While at Oberlin he plans to give a public lecture concerning the creation of this channel and its impact on water quality. |
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Dr. Radhika Singha, working with Michael Fisher, will teach a course in the History Department entitled “Crime, Law and Order in Colonial India” as one of Shansi Visiting Professors during the 2nd module of this semester. She holds a doctorate from Cambridge University, and authored a very well reviewed and influential book, A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India (Oxford University press, 1998). She has taught at Delhi University and Aligarh Muslim University, and has also held Fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation at the University of Chicago and at the Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris. |
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Dr. Ravi Vasudevan, a senior fellow at the Center for Developing Societies, is one of Shansi Visiting Professors this semester. He will teach a course in the Cinema Studies Program, entitled “Indian Cinema and the Politics of Cultural Difference: Narrative Form, Cognitive Apparatus, Public Sphere.” He will coordinate this course with Jeff Pence and Anuradha Needham. Professor Vasudevan has a doctorate in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and another doctorate in film studies from the University of East Anglia, U.K. He has been the recipient of fellowships at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (India) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (U.K.). Currently, he serves on the editorial board of Screen, a significant media and film studies journal, based in the U.K., and as advisor to the Public Broadcasting Trust in New Delhi. He has published extensively on film in a number of well-known journals in India and abroad and edited Making Meaning in Indian Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2000; 2002). |
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