Faculty
Monte Broaded is a comparative sociologist with an area
specialization in contemporary Chinese societies. His teaching and
research interests are in the areas of educational stratification
and social change and modernization. As Director of the Center for
Global Education at Butler University (since August, 2000), he
provides leadership and coordination for the university's
comprehensive internationalization agenda. In previous positions,
he served as Assistant Director of the Center for East Asian
Studies at Stanford University (1986-88), as Assistant Professor of
Sociology and Coordinator of China Studies at the University of
Pittsburgh (1988-99), and as Head of the Center for Asian Studies
and Senior Lecturer (equivalent to US Associate Professor) in
Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia (1999-2000).
At the University of Pittsburgh and at Butler University, he has
been centrally involved in the development of grant proposals that
have generated more than $2 million to support international and
area studies programs. He is the author (or co-author) of numerous
research articles published in refereed journals and is co-editor
and co-author (with members of the University of Pittsburgh China
Studies faculty) of Contemporary Chinese Societies: Continuity and
Change, an award-winning "textbook" in interactive CD-ROM format
(Columbia University Press, 2001).
Xiaorong Han was born in China. He received his BA in history
from Xiamen (Amoy) University, an MA in ethnic studies from the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, an MA in anthropology from
Tulane University, and his Ph.D. in history from the University of
Hawaii-Manoa. He was a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences for five years and had taught Chinese and Asian history at
the University of Hawaii-West Oahu, Trinity College, the National
University of Singapore before coming to Butler in 2003. His
research interests focus on state and ethnic minorities,
intellectuals and peasants, and nationalist and Communist movements
in twentieth century China, as well as Sino-Vietnamese
interactions. His recent publications include "Spoiled Guests or
Dedicated Patriots: The Chinese in North Vietnam, 1954-1978;" The
Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-194 9 (SUNY Press, 2005);
"Who Invented the Bronze Drum?--Nationalism, Politics and a
Sino-Vietnamese Archaeological Debate of the 1970s and 1980s;" and
"Localism in Chinese Communist Politics Before and After 1949--The
Case of Feng Baiju."