A Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Studies
ASIANetwork - Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows for 2010-11
With the generous support of the Henry Luce Foundation, ASIANetwork, a consortium of over 150 North American colleges, is supporting 4 teaching fellow positions each year for 3 years beginning in 2010-11.
Teaching Fellows should have earned a doctorate or terminal degree from a North American university within the prior 3 years. Applicants who are ABD may be considered, provided that they have a scheduled completion date prior to the beginning of the fellowship year verified by their graduate advisor.
For 2010-11, ASIANetwork selected 4 colleges. The names of their teaching fellow with a link to each of their biographies are below.
- Dickinson College: Art Historian - Asian Art
- Sheri Lullo (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2009)
- Fairfield University: Asian/Japanese Studies (Humanities or Social Sciences)
- Ive Aaslid Covaci (Ph.D., Yale University, 2007)
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges: East Asian Studies (Social Sciences)
- Elana Chipman (Ph.D., Cornell University, 2007)
- Randolph-Macon College: Japanese Language/Japanese Studies
- Charles A. Andrews (Ph.D., Indiana University, 2008)
Biographies of Teaching Fellows
Dr. Sheri Lullo was recently appointed as Dickinson’s ASIANetwork-Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Art and Art History for 2010-2011. Dr. Lullo earned her Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh in the History of Art and Architecture in 2009. Her dissertation, “Toiletry Case Sets Across Life and Death in Early China (5th c. BCE - 3rd c. CE),” was advised by Prof. Katheryn Linduff. She also earned her M.A. in History of Art and Architecture from Pittsburgh, and earned her B.A with a major in Art History from the University of Chicago in 1999.
A near-native speaker of Chinese, Lullo received a Fulbright Fellowship in 2000-2001 to support her research in China. She worked on an archaeological excavation in China and later as a researcher at the archaeological field office for the Antiquities and Monuments Office in Hong Kong. She also served as an editorial assistant, and was member of a team testing virtual reality tour programs for historic shrines in China.
In Fall 2010, Dr. Lullo will be teaching Introduction to the Arts of Asia. In this course students will be introduced to the visual culture of Asia by focusing on works of art and material culture from India, China, Korea, Japan and areas of the Islamic world from the 3d millennium B.C.E. through the 19th century.
Dr. Ive Aaslid Covaci studied Art History at Stanford University, receiving her B.A. in Art History with distinction and her M.A. in East Asian Studies with a concentration on Japanese Art History. For her Masters thesis, she wrote “The Construction of Memory in the Honen Shonin eden.” During her final year of study for the Stanford M.A. she studied advanced Japanese at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, Japan. Subsequently, she received two more Masters degrees at Yale University, a Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy, both in History of Art. She received her Ph.D. in History of Art also from Yale University. Her dissertation was “The Ishiyamadera engi and the Representation of Dreams and Visions in Pre-modern Japanese Art.” Her primary advisor at Yale was Mimi Yiengpruksawan.
Following her Ph.D. studies, Dr. Covaci won a prestigious research fellowship at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures in London, where she was a Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow. She worked there on revising her dissertation into a book manuscript titled “Dreaming Images: Picturing Visions in Pre-modern Japan.” During her year as an ASIANetwork-Luce Teaching Fellow at Fairfield University, she will be teaching Introduction to Art History: Asia, Africa, & the Americas, The Arts of India, China, & Japan, and a Special Topics Seminar on Japanese Buddhist Scroll Art.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Dr. Elana Chipman (Ph.D., Cornell, 2007) is a socio-cultural anthropologist who has done fieldwork in Southeastern China and in Taiwan and studies local identity and the nation-state, ritual and popular religion, tourism, and political-ecology. Her dissertation work examines the production of locality in Taiwan through ritual and other forms of culture work, such as grass-roots historiography. Her new project looks at the ways that changing global environmental discourses are transforming contemporary ritual practices in Chinese cultures, primarily the burning of offerings. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the East Asian Studies Center at Ohio State University. Most recently she was a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Binghamton University.
Dr. Chipman will be co-teaching a general introductory course East Asian studies course and an anthropology course on environment and culture, and solo teaching a course on the anthropology of tourism in East Asia.
Dr. Charles A. Andrews will be the 2010-11 ASIANetwork-Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Randolph-Macon College. Dr. Andrews is a 2008 graduate of the University of Indiana with a Ph.D. in Japanese and specialization in Japanese History. He has been teaching part-time at DePauw University since 2003 and he has lived in Japan on several occasions as a high school English teacher (1988-90) and as a research fellow at Tenri (1994-96) and Senshu (2002) Universities. His research interest is communications in Tokugawa and Early Meiji Japan. While at Randolph-Macon he will teach Intermediate Japanese Language, the Culture of Japan, and Japanese History.
Randolph-Macon is an independent co-educational, liberal arts college of 1250 students in historically rich Central Virginia. The Asian Studies program recently was expanded from a minor to a major. With the support of an ASIANetwork-Luce Foundation Fellowship, the presence of Charles Andrews on our campus will strengthen our offerings and bring fresh perspectives to our students and faculty.