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2012 NATSA Conference Board of Advisors
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Professor T. J. Cheng Professor T. J. Cheng received B.A. from National Taiwan University, M.A. from University of Waterloo, Ontario and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. He has previously taught at University of California, San Diego, and has been a visiting scholar at University of Tsukuba, Japan and an associate visiting professor at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His primary interests are in comparative political economy and East Asian development. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, co-authored Newly Industrializing East Asia in Transition and co-edited Political Change in Taiwan, Inherited Rivalry, The Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific, New Leadership and New Agenda, Religious Organizations and Democracy in Contemporary Asia, and China Under Hu Jintao. Professor Cheng was Editor-in-Chief of the American Asian Review, a major refereed quarterly on Asian affairs. He currently edits Taiwan Journal of Democracy and holds Class of 1935 Chair Professorship in Government Department of the College. Professor Shelley Rigger Shelley Rigger is the Brown Professor of East Asian Politics and Chair of Political Science at Davidson College in North Carolina. She has a PhD in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi University in Taiwan (2005) and a visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai (2006). She is the author of Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse (Rowman and Littlefield, 2011) as well as two books on Taiwan's domestic politics, Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy (Routledge 1999) and From Opposition to Power: Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2001). She has published articles on Taiwan's domestic politics, the national identity issue in Taiwan-China relations and related topics. Her monograph, "Taiwan's Rising Rationalism: Generations, Politics and ‘Taiwan Nationalism'" was published by the East West Center in Washington in November 2006. Her current research studies the effects of cross-strait economic interactions on Taiwan people's perceptions of Mainland China. Professor Yuan-Kang Wang Dr. Yuan-kang Wang holds a joint appointment in the Department Sociology and the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Western Michigan University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. Before joining WMU, Dr. Wang was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University, a Visiting Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, an Assistant Professor of Diplomacy at National Chengchi University in Taiwan, and an International Security Fellow in the Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Dr. Wang specializes in international relations, East Asian security, and Chinese foreign policy. He is the author of Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics (Columbia University Press, 2011). He has also published a variety of journal articles related to China, Taiwan, and the United States. Dr. Wang has received fellowships and grants from various sources, including Andrew Mellon Foundation and Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. Professor Joseph Wong Joseph Wong is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is also the Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School. Wong's research focuses on public policy and political economy in East Asia. He is the author of – Betting on Biotech: Innovation and the Limits of Asia’s Developmental State (Cornell University Press, 2011), Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea (Cornell University Press, 2004) and co-editor (with Edward Friedman) of Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems: Learning to Lose (Routledge, 2008). His articles have appeared in a broad range of journals including Politics and Society, Governance, Comparative Political Studies, Pacific Affairs, Studies in Comparative International Development, Journal of East Asian Studies, International Political Science Review, among others. Wong’s current research focuses on public health disasters. Wong received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001 and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Seoul National University and the Taiwan Institute for National Policy Research. He was also recently elected Senior Member of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Professor Tse-min Lin An Associate Professor at the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, Professor Lin has taught or visited at State University of New York at Stony Brook, Duke University, Michigan State University, and the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica. His teaching and research interests cover methodology, formal theory, and American and comparative political behavior. |
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