Faculty
Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts has more than 140 tenured and tenure-track faculty members, many of whom are internationally recognized as leaders in their fields.
Geographic Focus: Asia (East)
Richard P. Barke
Public Policy
Associate Professor
Dr. Richard Barke is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. He received his BS in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Rochester. His recent research interests focus on the regulation of risk, the roles of politics within science, and of science within politics. (continues)
Shatakshee Dhongde
Economics
Assistant Professor
Shatakshee Dhongde is Assistant Professor in the School of Economics. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in 2005 and was an Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. Her research analyzes globalization and its impact on economic growth, poverty, inequality, and segregation. (continues)
Paul Foster
Modern Languages
Associate Professor
Dr. Paul B. Foster received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from the Ohio State University (1996). His specialty is the study of Lu Xun 鲁迅, the icon of Modern Chinese Literature. Dr. Foster's current research is on kungfu fiction, film and popular culture, with a special focus on the martial art fiction master, Jin Yong 金庸. (continues)
Vivek Ghosal
Economics
Professor and Director of Ph.D. and M.S. Programs
Dr. Ghosal is Professor at the School of Economics at Georgia Institute of Technology. (continues)
Jarrod Hayes
International Affairs
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Jarrod Hayes received his PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Southern California in 2009. From 2009 to 2010, he was the ConocoPhillips Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Oklahoma, a joint appointment between the Department of Political Science and the School of International and Area Studies. (continues)
Diana M. Hicks
Public Policy
Professor and Chair
Dr. Diana Hicks is Professor and Chair of the School of Public Policy. She specializes in science and technology policy with a focus on the use and improvement of data infrastructures to support policy and scholarship. (continues)
Masato Kikuchi
Modern Languages
Associate Professor
Dr. Masato Kikuchi is Associate Professor of Japanese in the School of Modern Languages. He received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh where his research focused on the areas of application of natural language processing techniques such as development and evaluation of intelligent computer-assisted language instruction, discourse/pragmatics processing, and psycholinguistics. (continues)
Aaron D. Levine
Public Policy
Associate Professor
Dr. Aaron D. Levine is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. He received his BA in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his M.Phil in Biological Sciences from the University of Cambridge, and his PhD in Public Affairs from Princeton University. (continues)
Haizheng Li
Economics
Professor
Dr. Haizheng Li received his PhD in economics from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in the School of Economics in 1997, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004 and Professor in 2010. A specialist in applied econometrics, labor economics, industry studies and Chinese economy, he has authored numerous journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports. (continues)
Jin Liu
Modern Languages
Assistant Professor
Jin Liu received her Ph.D. in East Asian Literature and Culture from Cornell University (2008) and her M.A. in Chinese Linguistics (2000) and B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature (1997) from Beijing University. Her interdisciplinary research studies contemporary Chinese popular culture from the perspective of language, sound, voice, and music. (continues)
Hanchao Lu
History, Technology, and Society
Professor
Dr. Hanchao Lu received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society in 1994 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1996 and Professor in 2001. He served as Director of Graduate Studies in Tech's School of History, Technology, and Society from 2004 to 08. (continues)
Kyoko Masuda
Modern Languages
Associate Professor - Japanese
Dr. Kyoko Masuda received her Ph.D in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona in 2002. She joined Georgia Tech in 2004 and has been promoted to Associate Professor of Japanese and Linguistics in 2010. A specialist in Discourse, Second Language Acquisition, and Cognitive Linguistics, she has published serveral articles in the journals such as Modern Language Journal, New Directions in Applied Linguistics of Japanese, Japanese Language and Literature, Nihongo Kyooiku, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, CLS, and Japanese/Korean Linguistics. (continues)
Willie Pearson
History, Technology, and Society
Professor
Dr. Willie Pearson, Jr. (Professor; PhD, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1981) is a professor of sociology in the School of History, Technology, and Society. In 1993, he received Southern Illinois University's College of Liberal Arts' Alumni Achievement Award. He specializes in the sociology of science and sociology of the family. (continues)
Juan Rogers
Public Policy
Associate Professor
Dr. Juan D. Rogers is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Research Value Mapping Program at the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches courses on the logic of policy inquiry, qualitative and quantitative methods, information management and policy, science and technology policy, and bureaucracy and policy implementation. (continues)
Philip P. Shapira
Public Policy
Professor
Philip Shapira is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor of Management, Innovation and Policy with the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. His interests encompass science and technology policy, economic and regional development, innovation management and policy, industrial competitiveness, technology trajectories and assessment, innovation measurement, and policy evaluation. (continues)
Rumiko S. Shinzato
Modern Languages
Professor
Dr. Rumiko Shinzato received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Hawaii. She joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor of Japanese in 19 91 and in 2004 was promoted to Professor in the School of Modern Languages. A specialist in pragmatics, historical linguistics (grammaticalization), cognitive linguistics and Japanese and Okinawan linguistics, she has published numerous articles in such refereed journals as Journal of Pragmatics, Linguistics, Language Sciences, and Gengo Kenkyu. (continues)
John P. Walsh
Public Policy
Associate Professor
Dr. John P. Walsh is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. He teaches and does research on science, technology and innovation, using a sociological perspective that focuses on organizations and work to explain how research organizations respond to changes in their policy environment. (continues)
Fei-Ling Wang
International Affairs
Professor
Dr. Fei-Ling Wang received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs in 1993, and was promoted to associate professor in 1999 and professor in 2005. His research focus is comparative and international political economy, and East Asia and China studies. (continues)
Qi Wang
Literature, Media, and Communication
Assistant Professor
Qi Wang has a Ph.D in Film and Television (2008, UCLA), M.S. in Comparative Media Studies (2002, MIT), M.L. in International Communication (1999, Beijing University), and B.A. in English Literature (1996, Beijing University). Her research interests include issues of subjectivity and spatiality in cinema and media; (continues)
Katja Weber
International Affairs
Professor, Interim Chair
Katja Weber (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) is Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech. Her research interests center around institution-building in Europe and Asia Pacific, sovereignty-related and human rights norms, non-traditional security challenges, and German foreign policy. (continues)
Brian E. Woodall
International Affairs
Associate Professor
Brian Woodall is Associate Chair and Graduate Director in Georgia Tech’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and has held full-time faculty positions at the University of California at Irvine and at Harvard University as well as visiting appointments at the University of Tokyo. (continues)
Research Faculty
James White
Public Policy
Senior Research Scientist
James D. White is Director of Communications Studies in the Center for Advanced Communications Policy, and Senior Research Scientist in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Dr. White’s research interests focus on international communications, on innovation in local government and on the impact of modern communications on the media and on employment. (continues)
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