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Terry Weidner, Director
- B.A., St. Lawrence University, 1970
- M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1972
- Ph.D., University of California, Davis, Chinese History, 1980
- Associate Director of International Programs, University of Kansas, 1991-1998
- Director of Asian Affairs Center and Missouri International Training Center, University of Missouri, 1998-2003
Proficient in Chinese; worked as political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing; worked as a Chinese political and economic analyst for the Foreign Broadcast Information Service in Washington, DC.; Academic interests include Chinese political economy, business, and U.S.-China relations.
E-mail: terry.weidner@umontana.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2281
Fax: (406) 243-2181
Steven I. Levine, Associate Director
- B.A. Brandeis University, 1962
- Ph.D. Harvard University, 1972
- Director of Carolina Asia Center, UNC-Chapel Hill 2002-2004
Steve taught, inter alia, at American University, Columbia University, Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and has a working knowledge of Chinese and Russian. He is the
author and co-editor of several books, including Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria, and China’s Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937-1945.
E-mail: steven.levine@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2278
Fax: (406) 243-2181
 Janice Trickel, Director,
Defense Critical Language/Culture Program
E-mail: janice.trickel@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2278
 James Park Taylor, Co-Director,
Mansfield Juries and Democracy Program
- J. D., University of Montana School of Law
- Visiting Clinical Supervisor, UM School of Law
- Managing Attorney of the Tribal Defenders Office for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, 1996-2005
- Private practice, with primary focus on criminal defense, 1980-1996
- Immediate past president of the Montana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
- Voted Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year by the Montana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 1998.
E-mail: jim.taylor@umontana.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2713
 Rob Precht, Co-Director,
Mansfield Juries and Democracy Program
- J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School
- Clinical Program Director (China), International Bridges to Justice
- Assistant Dean & Director of Public Service, University of Michigan Law School, 1995-2004
- Assistant Federal Defender and Staff Attorney, The Legal Aid Society, New York, New York, 1981-1995
- Author, Defending Mohammad: Justice on Trial, A Defense Lawyer's Account of the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing Trial (Cornell University Press, 2003)
E-mail: robert.precht@umontana.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2988
Christopher Marlow, Program Coordinator
- B.A. The University of Montana, 2007
Christopher began working at the Mansfield Center during his Junior year not long after returning from a semester in Nanjing, China.
E-mail: christopher.marlow@mso.umt.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2988
Professor Rose Xinjuan Zhang,
Visiting Scholar and Professor of Law
- L.L.B. China University of Political Science & Law, 1985
- L.L.M. China University of Political Science & Law, 1989
- Ph.D. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1997
Rose is a professor for the Mansfield Center and the School of Law at The University of Montana. After completing her Ph.D., Rose began teaching in the Law School at China Youth University for Political Sciences in Beijing, China. She is fluent in Chinese and English and a working knowledge of German.
E-mail: xinjuan.zhang@mso.umt.edu
Phone:(406) 243-2945
 Ambassador Mark Johnson (ret.),
Adjunct Mansfield Professor
- B.S., Georgetown University, 1968
- M.A., George Washington University, 1971
- Foreign Service Officer, U.S. State Department, 1968-1998
- U.S. Ambassador to Senegal
- Deputy Inspector General, U.S. State Department, 1996-1998
- Executive Director, World Affairs Council of Montana, 1999-present
Diplomatic service in the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia; Founded the World Affairs Council of Montana to provide education for Montanans about global affairs and concerns. Lives in Lolo, Montana, in the Bitterroot Mountains.
E-mail: wacmontana@mtwi.net
Phone: (406) 243-2050
Philip West, Mansfield Professor of Modern Asian Affairs
- B.A., Manchester College, 1960
- M.A., Harvard University, Regional Studies, China, 1965
- Ph.D., Harvard University, Modern Chinese History and East Asian Languages, 1971
- Assistant and Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Indiana University, 1970-1988
- Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Keio University, Tokyo, 1974-1975
- Director, East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, 1981-1987
Published Work
- Yenching University and Sino-Western Relations, 1916-1952, nominated in 1976 for a Pulitzer Award by Harvard University Press.
- America's War in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory, co-edited with Steven I. Levine and Jackie Hiltz (M.E. Sharpe, 1998).
- Remembering the Forgotten War: The Korean War in Literature and Art, co-edited with Suh Ji-Moon (M.E. Sharpe, 2000)
E-mail: philip.west@umontana.edu
Phone: (406) 243-2063
 Jacqueline Hiltz, Research Associate
- B.A. History, Stanford University
- M.A. Asian History, University of Montana
- Researcher, Archivist and Writer, "The Sikkim ( India ) Project" 1999-present
- Currently working under Mansfield Center auspices on a book-length manuscript that spans the 330-year history of the Buddhist kingdom of Sikkim
Email: jacqueline.hiltz@umontana.edu
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