Notes on Contributors

News of the Field / 237 Notes on Contributors Imke Bock‑Möbius holds a Ph. D. in physics, worked in China and began active qigong training; back home she studied Chinese language and philosophy. Experienced in other forms of energy and light work, she resides in southern Germany where she teaches qigong, practices shiatsu, and gives lectures at both academic and popular venues. E‑mail: iks.moebius@t‑online.de Mary I. Bockover is Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt State Univer‑ sity, in Arcata, CA. She is the creator and moderator of the HSU Ethics Forum, and her publications are mainly in the areas of Ancient Chinese Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy and Ethics. E‑mail: mib1@humboldt.edu Suzanne Cahill received her PhD from UC Berkeley in Classical Chinese Literature in 1982 and has been a member of the faculty of the Depart‑ ment of History at UC San Diego since 1984. Her most recent book is The Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors, Volume I: The Cata‑ logue (2009). E‑mail : suzannecahill@gmail.com Rita Egizii is the Director of Community Outreach and Alumni Relations at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. She is a suc‑ cessful businesswoman and social entrepreneur and co‑founder of the recently incorporated Legacy of Dao foundation. E‑mail: regizii@telus planet.net Georges Favraud is a doctoral student of anthropology or ethnology at the University of Paris, West. His field work centers on Hunan and fo‑ cuses on Daoist ritual, local communities, and ecology. E‑mail: gfavraud@gmail.com Shih‑shan Susan Huang received her M.A. from National Taiwan Uni‑ versity and her Ph.D. from Yale. She is assistant professor of Chinese Art at Rice University. Recent publications on Song Daoist and Buddhist art have appeared in Artibus Asiae and Orientations. Her book Picturing the 238 / Journal of Daoist Studies 4 (2011) True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China is due to come out from Harvard University Asia Center Press. Email: sh6@rice.edu Bill Hulet (aka Cloudwalking Owl) was initiated into Daoism in the 1970s. Not happy with any group he hass seen so far, he has bumbled along trying to learn what he can as a hermit. His blog about his daily life is called “Diary of a Daoist Hermit.” E‑mail bill.hulet@sympatico.ca Stephen Jackowicz received his Ph. D. from Boston University in 2003 and is now both a practicing acupuncturist and adjunct faculty at Adel‑ phi University, Garden City, NY. He is currently involved in a transla‑ tion project of the Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibus‑ tion (Zhenjiu dacheng) with The Chinese Medicine Database Project. E‑mail: stevejackowicz @gmail.com Mary Kay Ryan received academic degrees in medical anthropology and the history of medicine, then trained in the practice of Chinese medicine, including at the Chengdu College of TCM. Active in its social application, she is co‑author of Treating AIDS with Chinese Medicine (Pacific Press, 1994). She currently practices Chinese medicine in Chicago and teaches there at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. E‑mail: marykaythered@sbcglobal.net Jeongsoo Shin is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington in Seattle. His dissertation explores the literary tradition of an allegorical kingdom of flowers in Sino‑Korean Literature. He plans to work next on intellectual exchanges between Tang China and Silla Korea. E‑mail: jeongsoo@u.washington.edu Cristina Zaccarini is Associate Professor of History and Co‑Director of Asian Studies at Adelphi University. She has authored a book and other publications centering on the cultural exchange between China and the United States and is now researching Western accounts of Chinese modes of healing. E‑mail: zaccarin@adelphi.edu ...