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INTRODUCTIONS Asian and Near Eastern Languages After serving a year as a visiting assistant professor, Dr. E milie Durand Zuniga joined the ANE faculty as a CFS-track faculty member in the Arabic section. Emilie received her PhD from the University of Texas, Austin in Arabic Linguistics and her research interests include Arabic sociophonetics, dialectology, and pedagogy. She is an extraordinarily talented language learner and is native or near native in five languages. She is married to Scott Zuniga with whom she enjoys traveling, hiking, and making music. Dr. Shinsuke Tsuchiya joined the Japanese section as a visiting assistant professor of Japanese. Dr. Tsuchiya, a specialist in applied linguistics and language pedagogy, recently completed his PhD at The Ohio State University. He is interested in the notion of “native speaker” as it relates to language pedagogy. He has taught Japanese for 10 years at various institutions including BYU, OSU, Missionary Training Center, Columbus Japanese
Language School, and Honda. Shinsuke lives in Orem with his wife Alyssa and his 2 sons. He enjoys running, drawing, singing karaoke, and playing with his children. Dr. Timothy Davis joined the department faculty as a visiting assistant professor of Chinese. He received his PhD in pre-modern Chinese history from Columbia University in 2008. His research interests center on the cultural history of Medieval China with particular emphasis on the relationship between commemoration and the construction of historical memory at the local and national level. His dissertation entitled “Potent Stone: Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China” examines the religious, social, and cultural significance of stone-inscribed biographies called muzhiming. He has most recently worked in BYU’s History Department.
Emilie Zuniga
Shinsuke Tsuchiya
Timothy Davis
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