Congratulations to Hai Liu

On December 10, 2018 Hai Liu (Ph.D., Chinese Linguistics) successfully defended her dissertation, "Tone Sandhis in Mandarin Chinese," (Professor Hongming Zhang, Advisor). Dr. Liu is currently a lecturer at University of Minnesota where she teaches …

Congratulations to Xiang Lyu

On December 7, 2018 Xiang Lyu (Ph.D., Chinese Linguistics) successfully defended his dissertation, "Prosodic Phonology of the Ningbo Dialect,” (Professor Hongming Zhang, Advisor). Dr. Lyu is currently a lecturer of Chinese in the Department of East Asian …

Congratulations to Nalan Erbil Erkan

On August 27, 2018 Nalan Erbil Erkan (Ph.D., Asian Languages and Cultures) successfully defended her dissertation, "The Writer and the Nation-State: Language, Aesthetics, Ideology and Power in Turkish Literature (1927-2015),” (Vinay Dharwadker, Advisor). Nalan will begin a …

Congratulations to Anthony Lovenheim Irwin

On August 23, 2018 Anthony Irwin (Ph.D., Asian Languages and Cultures) successfully defended his dissertation, "Building Buddhism in Chiang Rai, Thailand: Construction as Religion,” (Anne Hansen, Advisor). Congratulations!