Summer Fellows 2011
The following scholars will be based at the Centre
during the summer of 2011.
Dr Clifton Emery
Department of Psychology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,Tsinghua University, Beijing
Informal Social Control of Domestic Violence: East and West
Dr. Emery has been occupied with the study of domestic violence for the last 17 years. He has published on the consequences of childhood exposure to domestic violence, neighborhoods and domestic violence, and child maltreatment. At present, his research examines the relationship between domestic violence and informal social control by extended family members and neighbors. This year, the Guggenheim foundation funded his study entitled the Beijing-Seoul Families and Neighborhoods Study (BSFNS), which takes a quantitative approach to comparing informal social control of domestic violence in the two cities. During his time at Cambridge, Dr. Emery will be writing proposals to extend this research to the UK. The UK study, Informal Social Control of Domestic Violence: East and West, will deepen the current study by testing a soon–to-be-published typology of domestic violence that Dr. Emery has developed. Dr. Emery earned his PhD from the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago in 2007. He also holds a master’s degree in statistics and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Chicago. He holds a third master’s degree in women’s studies from Dongduk University in Seoul and obtained his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Haverford College.
Dr Shali Wu
Department of Psychology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Tsinghua University, Beijing
Cross Cultural Judgement and Decision Processes
Dr. Wu received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Chicago. She is currently Assistant Professor of Marketing and Associate Professor of psychology at Tsinghua-Berkeley Center, Tsinghua University. Prior to joining Tsinghua, she taught at the University of Chicago, Washington University in Saint Louis, Olin Business School, as a Lecturer and Senior Research Associate. More recently, she taught and worked at the Business School of Yongsei University in Korea as Visiting Professor. Professor Wu's research focuses on cross cultural judgment and decision processes. She is the principal investigator of the Chinese NSF (National Science Foundation) funded project?Cross Cultural Cognitive Psychology Informs Differences in Consumer Behavior: Focalism and Price in Consumer Decision Making. Dr. Wu has published articles in top international journals such as Psychological Science and Cognitive Science. Her work has been featured in Science, one of the world's leading journals of original scientific research. Dr. Wu has prior work experience at NORC (the National Opinion Research Center) in Chicago. At Tsinghua, Professor Wu teaches IMBA program's Marketing Management course.
Professor Peng Gang
Department of History, Tsinghua University, Beijing
The
New Trends in Narrativist Philosophy of History: A Prospective
Professor Peng Gang finished his education in China, gaining his MA, BA and PhD respectively from Peking University, Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is now Professor of History of Ideas and Historical Theory in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing. His books include The Narrative Turn: Reflections on Recent Developments in Western Historical Theory, A Study of the Philosophy of History of Benedetto Croce and A Critical History of Classical Chinese Philosophy. He has also translated Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Leo Strauss' Natural Right and History and Hayden White's Metahistory: Historical Imagination in 19th Century Europe into Chinese. He has been a visiting scholar at both Harvard University and EHESS in France. During his stay in Cambridge, he would like to gain a more clear understanding of the British theorists' contribution to the field of historical theory since the day of R G Collingwood and W Walsh. He is also keen to explore the field of history of ideas at Cambridge, focussing particularly on the research of Professor Quentin Skinner.
