Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology College of Humanities: Asian & Near Eastern Languages

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James Allison

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Small-scale societies of the southwest
- Quantitative Methods
- Ceramic Analysis
- Archaeological Theory

Juno Baik

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3089 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Second language acquisition

Jaime Bartlett

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
870 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropology
- Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
- Archaeology

Kevin Blankinship

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3058 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Classical Arabic poetry and poetics
- Islamic Spain and North Africa
- Textual cultures (authorship, commentaries, translation)Literary pragmatics

Dana Bourgerie

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3067 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Chinese Linguistics and Dialectology
- Sociolinguistics and Language Variation
- Advanced language pedagogy and assessment

Zachary Chase

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Andes

Matthew Christensen

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3081 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Sociolinguistics
- Chinese Linguistics and pedagogy
- Culinary Culture
- Cantonese Linguistics and Culture

John E. Clark

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
876 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

David Crandall

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- African Folktales
- Himba Flora Taxonomy and Herbal Medicines
- Africa
- Human Moral Knowledge

Julie Damron

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3085 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Online learning and anxiety in the classroom
- TA training
- Education

Cynthia S. Finlayson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Archaeological excavation
- Cultural heritage site development
- Syria and Jordan

Jacob R. Hickman

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
860 KMBL

Research Interests;
- How the processes of migration, displacement, and diaspora affect a host of cultural and psychological phenomena
- Transnational ethnographic fieldwork with Hmong communities in both southeast Asia and the west
- Religion, ritual practice, family life, moral thinking, and personhood
- Religious dynamics that are emerging in the Hmong diaspora, which include messianic movements, new forms of transnational ritual networks, and changing religious ideologies and practices
- Comparative fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, the United States, and other areas where the Hmong have resettled

David Honey

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3071 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Chinese Historiography
- Western sinology
- Confucian classics
- Classical scholarship
- History of Guangdong poets

David J. Johnson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
892 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Cultures associated with the Red Sea area and their involvement in long distance trade from the earliest period through the Islamic Period
- Effects of long distance trade contacts on religious ideology and social organization

Richard McBride II

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages

Research Interests:
- Medieval Korean Buddhist practice
- Medieval Chinese Buddhist practice
- Early Korean history, kingship, institutional history, Silla

Scott Miller

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
4002 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Nineteenth-century and modern Japanese literature
- Oral narration and translation theory
- Early Japanese sound recordings

Steve Moody

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3069 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Intercultural communication and interaction
- Japanese sociolinguistics and pragmatics

Charles W. Nuckolls

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropological studies of causal thinking and explanation in India
- Nationalism in Japan
- Psychiatric classification and diagnosis in the U.S. and New Zealand.

Jeff Peterson

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3091 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Japanese pedagogy
- CALL and corpus research

Jeff Lynn Peterson

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3091 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Japanese pedagogy
- Call and corpus research
- Effects of reading activities on Japanese learners

Stephen Ricks

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3055 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Hebrew

Steve Riep

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3063 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature
- Transnational Chinese film
- Taiwan literature and film
- Cultural production under authoritarian regimes
- Ecocriticism
- The depiction of disability in the creative arts; and war, memory, literature

Spencer Scoville

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3061 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Modern Arabic Literature
- Translation Theory
- Russian/Arab Literary Relations
- Postcolonial Literary Studies

Michael T. Searcy

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Social processes associated with the Viejo (AD 700-1200) and Medio Periods (AD 1200-1450) of the Casas Grandes tradition, which flourished in the northwestern portion of modern-day Chihuahua, Mexico
- Causes linked to transitions in sociopolitical organization and structural transformations
- Long-distance interaction
- Iconographical analysis
- Ground stone analysis
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Fremont archaeology

Jack Stoneman

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3079 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Japanese literature-poetry prose and drama
- Asian art history
- Asian literati culture, ceramics, and twentieth-century Chinese painting
- Comparative Literature
- Interdisciplinary comparative studies

Gregory Thompson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
880 KMBL

Research Interests:
- The intersection of anthropology, language, education, and communication with a broad focus on the mediating role of cultural contexts in human interaction
- Discourse analytic methods drawn from linguistic anthropology
- Micro-cultural contexts
- Motivation and engagement
- Psychological anthropology
- How education and learning are accomplished in actual teaching/learning interactions
- American cultural contexts
- African-American settings
- American cultural meanings of race and class

James Toronto

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3056 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Islamic Education
- Legal status of religious minorities
- LDS missiology

Shin Tsuchiya

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3064A JFSB

Research Interests:
- Second language teacher training and identity
- Language immersion programs
- Second language socialization and narratives
- Measuring and assessing second language proficiencies

Paul Warnick

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3077 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Japanese language pedagogy
- Pre-modern Japanese
- Writings of Fujitani Nariakira
- Second language acquisition
- Cultural literacy and influence of culture on language use

Rachel Yu Liu

College: College of Humanities
Department: Asian and Near Eastern Languages
3071 JFSB

Research Interests:
- Second language acquisition
- Teaching pedagogy
- Language assessment
- Bilingual language acquisition
- History of language education