Biography
Dana Scott Bourgerie白杰理 (bourgerie.byu.edu) is a Professor of Chinese in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages. He earned his Ph.D in East Asian Languages in 1991 from The Ohio State University. He also taught one year at his Alma Mater before arriving at BYU. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a visiting lecturer at City University of Hong Kong, and a visiting professor at Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia. He was also an honorary professor in the Overseas Education College at Nanjing University.
Professor Bourgerie's research interests are in sociolinguistics, Chinese dialects (including Yue and Hakka), and language acquisition. He is currently researching the language of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia and non-standard varieties of Chinese. He is also doing work on the assessment of advanced Chinese learners. Professor Bourgerie is a past president of the Chinese Language Teachers Association and is the founding director of the Chinese Flagship Center at BYU (2002). He is currently the editor journal Chinese as a Second Language and directs the Cambodian Oral History Project.
Research Interests
Chinese linguistics and dialectology, sociolinguistics and language variation, advanced language pedagogy and assessment.Teaching Interests
Chinese linguistics, Mandarin and Cantonese ChineseEducation
- Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Linguistics , OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (1990)
- M.A., East Asian Languages and Linguistics , Chinese Linguistics, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (1987)
- B.A., LINGUISTICS, CHINESE , FRENCH, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (1982)
Honors and Awards
- James Barker Lectureship, BYU College of Humanities (2017 - 2017)
- College of Humanities Scheuber and Veinz Professorship, College of Humanities (2010 - 2014)
- Honorary Professor of Chinese language, Nanjing University Overseas Education College (2009 - 2012)
- Fulbright-Hayes Fellow, U.S. Department of Education (1988 - 1989)
Administrative Assignments
- Asian and Near Eastern Languages: Department Chair (2015 - 2021)
Memberships
- Cantonese Language Association
- Chinese Language Teachers Assocation
Professional Citizenship
- Editor, Associate Editor, Chinese as a Second Language | 漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報 | The Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (2018 - Present)
- Editorial Review Board Member, Cheng & Tsui Publishing Board, Committee Member (1997 - Present)
- Other, The National Language Flagship Program (2002 - 2014)
- Officer (specify in Other), Chinese Language Teachers Association (2002 - 2005)
- Board Member, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (1996 - 2003)
- Editor, Associate Editor, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (1996 - 2003)
- Other, Chinese Language Teachers Association (2001 - 2002)