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HeeSoun Jang
Assistant professor of political science
M.A. political science, Sungshin Women’s University
Ph.D. public administration and policy, Florida State University
Birthplace: Seoul, Korea
Research interests/areas of expertise: Politics, management, service delivery and contracting in local government, policy analysis and social welfare in public policy, management, organization and networks in nonprofits
Languages fluent in: Korean

Matthew Jarvis
Assistant professor of political science
B.A. chemistry/political science, Williams College
M.A. political science, UC Berkeley
Ph.D. political science, UC Berkeley (expected)*
Birthplace: Santa Monica
Research interests/areas of expertise: Congressional elections, campaign finance, voting technology, veto threats, presidential approval, research methods

Marjorie Jolles
Assistant professor of women’s studies
B.A. philosophy, George Washington University
Ph.D. philosophy, Temple University
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pa.
Research interests/areas of expertise: Feminist philosophy and social theory, philosophy of the body, feminist culture studies

Muriel Joyce
Lecturer in theatre and dance
B.A. dance, UC Irvine
Birthplace: Mons, Belgium
Research interests/areas of expertise: Setting classical repertoire and contemporary ballets, coaching and choreographing, ballet
Languages fluent in: French

Dan Judelson
Assistant professor of kinesiology
B.S. kinesiology, College of William and Mary
M.A. exercise and sports science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ph.D. kinesiology, University of Connecticut
Birthplace: New Haven, Conn.
Research interests/areas of expertise: Effect of hydration state on performance and physiological responses to resistance exercise, effect of environmental influences on performance and physiological responses to exercise

Woo Jung
Associate professor of special education
M.A., Ph.D. philosophy, Oklahoma State University
Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea
Research interests/areas of expertise: Multicultural issues in special education
Languages fluent in: Korean

Dean Kazoleas
Associate professor of communications
B.S., M.A. communications, Arizona State University
Ph.D. communications, Michigan State University
Research interests/areas of expertise: Public relations, campaigns, international public relations, crisis management

Sherif Khalifa
Lecturer in economics
B.A. economics, American University in Cairo
M.Sc. economics, Warwick University
Ph.D. economics, Johns Hopkins University
Birthplace: Cairo, Egypt
Research interests/areas of expertise: Macroeconomics, labor economics, development economics
Languages fluent in: Arabic, English

Dmitry Khanin
Assistant professor of management
M.B.A., University of Miami
Ph.D. strategic management, University of Maryland (expected)*
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Research interests/areas of expertise: Venture capitalists’ investments, corporate governance
Languages fluent in: Russian

Janna Kim
Assistant professor of child and adolescent studies
B.A. psychology, Occidental College
Ph.D. developmental psychology, University of Michigan
Birthplace: Whittier
Research interests/areas of expertise: Influences of culture, gender and the mass media on adolescents’ and young adults’ sexual health

Dixie Koo
Assistant professor of criminal justice
B.A. sociology/law & society, UC Riverside
M.A. sociology/criminology, San Jose State University
Ph.D. sociology, University of Miami
Research interests/areas of expertise: Criminology, deviance, substance use, medical sociology, research methods

Emmanuel Lartey
Assistant professor of economics
M.A. economics, University of Toledo
Ph.D. economics, Boston College
Birthplace: Cape Coast, Ghana
Research interests/areas of expertise: International macroeconomics, monetary economics

Mark Latonero
Assistant professor of communications
Ph.D. communication, University of Southern California
Birthplace: New York
Research interests/areas of expertise: Social and cultural implications of entertainment media and communication technologies

Philip S. Lau
Lecturer in accounting
M.B.A., St. John’s University, New York
Place of Birth: New York City
Research interests: accounting and taxes
Languages fluent in: Cantonese

Emily S. Lee
Assistant professor of philosophy
B.A. political science and economics, Columbia University
M.A., Ph.D. philosophy, Stony Brook University
Research interests/areas of expertise: Phenomenology, specializing in the work of Maurice Merleaue-Ponty, feminist philosophy, philosophy of race
Languages fluent in: Korean, French

David L. Leibsohn
Assistant professor of management
M.B.A., University of Chicago
Ph.D. corporate strategy international business, University of Michigan (expected)*
Research interests/areas of expertise: Business strategy, international business

Marilyn Leuer
Lecturer in secondary education
B.A. English, University of Illinois, Chicago
M.A. education, University of Illinois, Chicago
Birthplace: Chicago, Ill.
Research interests/areas of expertise: Secondary reading, how teachers’ beliefs impact learning, measuring teacher impact

Rachel Lindheim
Assistant professor of liberal studies
B.A. French, M.A. art history, Williams College
Ph.D. art history, University of Chicago
Birthplace: Toronto
Research interests/areas of expertise: 18th- and 19th-century French painting, Orientalism, gender and representation, portraiture and self-fashioning
Languages fluent in: French

Yue Laura Liu
Associate professor of finance
Ph.D. finance, University of Oregon
Birthplace: Hangzhou, China
Research interests/areas of expertise:  Corporate finance, institutional investors, corporate government
Languages fluent in: Chinese

Laura Lohman
Assistant professor of music
B.M. flute performance, Indiana University
Ph.D. musicology, University of Pennsylvania
Birthplace: Winter Park, Fla.
Research interests/areas of expertise: Late career and reception history of the Egyption singer Umm Kulthum, American musical and theatrical responses to the Tripolitan War, music and dance in the Middle East
Languages fluent in: Arabic, Spanish, Italian, French

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