About the Guest Lecturers

Amy Bowen (lectured October 17, 2006) is a fourth-year Japanese major at UCSB.  Through the Education Abroad Program, she studied Japanese language at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, during Spring Quarter 2007.  She was a member of the first Tourism in East Asia class in the fall of 2005, and tourist sites in China were the topic of her final project.

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Prof. Luke Roberts (lectured November 7, 2006) is a historian of Japan in the Tokugawa era who specializes in regional history, political-economic discourse and samurai life.  He earned his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1991 and has taught at UCSB since then.

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Andrew James Vogel (lectured November 16, 2006) was a fourth-year history major at UCSB in 2006-07.  For six months, he studied Korean history, culture, and language at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.  He was in the UCSB Army ROTC program and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army upon graduation.

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Prof. Susan Chan-Egan (lectured November 28, 2006) was born in the Philippines of Chinese ancestry and, since 1980, has visited China more than a dozen times. After receiving her M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington and her M.B.A. from Boston University, she worked for many years as a securities analyst. However, her primary interest is biographical literature, and her publications include A Latterday Confucian published by Harvard University Press in 1987.