Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy
2001 Officer Election Ballot

Voting: There are four positions for consideration on this ballot. There are three candidates on the ballot for two board positions (1-year and 2-year)-you may vote for TWO. There is one candidate for secretary-treasurer-you may vote for that candidate, or for a write-in candidate* There are two vice-presidential candidates-you may vote for ONE..

[*Any write-in candidate must (1) be an SACP member in good standing, and (2) agree to being considered as a candidate.]

Complete and mail this ballot to: Professor J. N. Mohanty, Department of Philosophy, Anderson Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA by Jan. 25, 2001.

A. Board positions (2)- the electees will participate in business meetings of the Society and contribute to planning/strategy. VOTE FOR TWO. The candidate receiving the most votes will serve the 2-year term; the candidate receiving the second-most votes will serve the 1-year term.

 Marthe Chandler (DePauw University, IL)
 Fred R. Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame, IN)
 David Jones (Kennesaw State University, GA)

Marthe Chandler received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1980 and has taught at the University of Kentucky and DePauw University, where she is currently a professor of Philosophy. Her graduate work was in analytic philosophy, logic and the philosophy of science, but in 1989 she joined a group of faculty who read texts in Japanese Buddhism and the Confucian Classics. In 1993 she visited philosophy departments in China on a study tour sponsored by the American Philosophical Association. She studied Classical Chinese philosophy with Robert Eno at the Institute for East Asian Studies at Indiana University and attended the NEH Summer Institute on The Chinese Classics in Translations. In 1997, she returned to China on an East West enter China Field Trip. She is currently on the Board of Directors of SACP and has presented papers on Chinese and comparative philosophy at the Indiana Philosophical Association, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, and the Association for Asian Studies. She currently has research grants from DePauw University for a work on "Philosophical Drama in Meno and Mencius" and to develop courses in Chinese Aesthetics.

Fred R. Dallmayr is Packey J. Dee Professor in the departments of government and philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a Doctor of Law degree from the University of Munich and a Ph.D. from Duke University. He has been a visiting professor at Hamburg University in Germany and at the New School for Social Research in New York, and a Fellow at Nuffield College in Oxford. He has been teaching at Notre Dame since 1978. During 1991-92 he was in India on a Fulbright research grant. Among his recent publications are: Between Freiburg and Frankfurt (1991), Hegel: Modernity and Politics (1993), The Other Heidegger (1993), Beyond Orientialism: Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter (1996), Alternative Visions: Paths in the Global Village (1998), and Border Crossings (1999).

David Jones is the Director of the Center for the Development of Asian Studies, a Southeast regional center of the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center. Under his direction, CDAS coordinated three faculty development workshops in the last four years on Asia and other programs for the public in Atlanta and the Southeast. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy (2001) and Chair of the Asian Studies Program at Kennesaw State University/ Southern Polytechnic in Atlanta. He writes mostly in the areas of Chinese and Greek Philosophy. Some recent publications are: "Confucian Order at the Edge of Chaos: The Science of Complexity and Ancient Wisdom," (with John Culliney in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Sept. 1998) and "The Fractal Self and the Organization of Nature: The Daoist Sage and Chaos Theory" (with J. Culliney in Zygon, Dec. 1999). His other articles appear in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Asian Culture Quarterly, and Education About Asia. He has book chapters in New Sciences for Public Administration and Policy: Connections and Reflections (Goktug Morcol and Linda Dennard, eds.) and Extending the Boundaries: Approaches to World Literature (Michael Tierce, ed.).

B. Secretary-Treasurer- the electee will maintain the financial and administrative accounts of the Society for a 2-year term (2001-02).

 Dr. Sushil Mittal (Millikin University, IL)
 Write-in candidate: __________________________________________________________

Dr. Sushil Mittal is Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies at Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois. Dr. Mittal is the Founding Director of a research center, the International Institute of India Studies in Canada. He is the Founding Editor of a journal, "International Journal of Hindu Studies," of a book series, "Hindu Studies," and of a paper series, "Hindu Studies." He is an advisor to the Encyclopedia of Asia and a member of the Board of Directors of Centre D'Etudes sur les Strategies Internationales des Movements et Societes Anglophones at the Universite Grenoble, Stendhal, France. He has received numerous grants and fellowships, the latest from the American Academy of Religion, for his work on Gandhi, Hindu Occidentalism, and Hindu theories of social and human sciences. He is currently working on several books (The Hindu World, Religions of South Asia, Hindu Religious Traditions and the Body, Handbook for the Study of Hinduism, etc.), all under contract.

C. Vice President-the electee for this post will serve during the calendar years 2001 and 2002, becoming the automatic presidential nominee for 2003 and 2004.

 Dr. Frank J. Hoffman (West Chester University, PA)
 Dr. Graham Parks (University of Hawaii)

Frank J. Hoffman, Associate Professor of Philosophy at West Chester University, is currently an SACP board member and SACP liaison to APA Eastern Division. Hoffman conducts research at the University of Pennsylvania where he is a Visiting Scholar in the Department Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and an Associate at the Center for East Asian Studies. His teaching and research concerns both South Asia and East Asia. Hoffman joined SACP in the early 1970s as a graduate student at the University of Hawaii and East-West Center grantee. While pursuing his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion at the University of London, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Since the early 1980s he has been actively involved in SACP panels at APA and AAR meetings. His publications include Rationality and Mind in Early Buddhism (Motilal Banarsidass, 1987/1992), Pali Buddhism (co-author, Curzon Press, 1996), journal articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia articles. He is presently Series Editor of Resources in Asian Philosophy and Religion (Greenwood Press, CT) and serves on the Advisory Editorial Board of the British journal, "Asian Philosophy" (Carfax). Hoffman's organizational experience includes work with the Oriental Club of Philadelphia (Past President), SSHE Interdisciplinary Association for Philosophy and Religious Studies (Past President), Rotary Foundation Scholarship Sub-Committee (District Chair), and the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium (Board of Directors). In 1999, he received a Rotary Grant for University Teachers and taught in India.

Graham Parkes has taught Asian and comparative philosophy at the University of Hawaii for the last twenty years, where he is currently a full professor in the Philosophy Department. Among his publications and translations in the area are: Heidegger and Asian Thought (1987), Nietzsche and Asian Thought (1991), Nishitani Keiji's The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (1990), Reinhard May's Heidegger's Hidden Sources: East Asian Influences on His Thought (1996), and Francois Berthier's Reading Zen in the Rocks: The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden (2000). He is currently working with Steve Odin on a new Source-Book in Japanese Philosophy, to be published by Blackwell's.

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