Executive Board

Bruce Burgett
(Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell)
Burgett teaches and publishes in American Studies, Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Critical Race Studies, and Interdisciplinary and Public Scholarship. Burgett received his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Ted Mack
(Associate Professor, Asian Languages & Literatures)
Mack teaches modern Japanese-language literature and culture. His research concerns the construction of authority in the Japanese publishing industry and the flow of literary works throughout the larger Japanese linguistic community. Current work focuses on role of literature in the Japanese diaspora and the circulation of literary texts across Tokyo and São Paulo.
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Michael Shapiro
(Divisional Dean of Humanities; Professor, Asian Languages & Literatures)
Shapiro teaches and publishes in the areas of Hindi language & literature, and Indo-Aryan languages & linguistics. His current research projects include a book-length study on the structure and history of the Hindi language; studies on the linguistic structure and rhetorical structures of early New Indo-Aryan texts; and work on aspects of early Sikh scripture. Shapiro received in Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
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Janelle Taylor
(Associate Professor, Anthropology)
Taylor is a sociocultural anthropologist who uses ethnographic methods to study health, illness, medical education, medical technology, and medical practice. Her current research focuses on dementia care as well as standardization and assessment in U.S. medical education and practice.  She received her doctorate from University of Chicago.
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Crispin Thurlow
(Associate Professor, Communication)
Thurlow's primary research agenda is to examine the ways people use language and other semiotic modes to negotiate and make sense of boundaries of difference in everyday social interaction. Thurlow received his doctorate in Language and Communication from Cardif University, Wales.
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Richard Watts
(Associate Professor, French and Italian)
Watts's research and teaching interests focus on the post/colonial francophone world. Watts received his PhD in French from Yale University
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Kathleen Woodward
(Director, Simpson Center; Professor, English)
Woodward teaches and publishes in the areas of American literature, women studies, and aging and technology. Woodward received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.
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Allison Wylie
(Professor, Philosophy and Anthropology)
Wylie specializes in Philosophy of Science, Social Science, and History; and in Feminist Philosophy of Science. Wylie received her Ph.D. from SUNY - Binghamton (Program in History and Philosophy of the Social and Behavioral Sciences).
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