Academic Life: Faculty Bios
Henry Tsang, PhD, Program Director
Dr. Henry Tsang is the Program Director of YISA and a faculty member of the Nanjing Normal University. His course, "Global Business Management in China" focuses on current issues and challenges of American corporations entering China and the economic environment that confronts them.
Dr. Tsang received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology specializing in the assessment and measurement classroom teaching and student learning. Dr. Tsang served for eight years under the University of Arizona President Peter Likins as the Coordinator for the P-20 Educational Council of Southern Arizona, initiating a series of educational projects and representing the Presidents Office on multiple campus-wide and State-wide committees on educational reform. He earned his undergraduate degree in Economics and East Asian Studies from UA.
Dr. Tsang has been the President of the Tong Ren Educational Group, a private school system including a preschool, elementary school, middle/high school, and junior college in Xian, China.
Professor Andrés D. Oņate, PhD
Dr. Andres Oņate is Professor of International Relations and co-Program Director at Yangtze International Study Abroad in Nanjing. He is concurrently an adjunct professor in Political Science and China Studies at the University of Arizona. Dr. Oņate teaches POL 428 (Chinese Political Theories, Confucius to the Present), POL 445 (The Chinese Revolution), POL 460 (Modern Chinese Foreign Relations), POL 464 (East Asia International Relations), and CHN 483 (Confucianism: The Classical Period).
Professor Oņate was a professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Arizona, where he taught for sixteen years. He then joined the U.S. State Department as a Foreign Service Officer, serving seven years at the U.S. embassy in Beijing. In this capacity, Professor Oņate has visited fifty (50) cities and around 20 provinces in China. Professor Onate retired from the State Department in 1998.
Professor Oņate also served in the White House National Security Council, the U.S. Senate, and received a Masters of Science degree from the U.S. National War College.
He worked briefly as Director of the Asian Business Region for Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Justin Zackey, PhD, Geography
Dr. Zackey earned his PhD in 2005 at UCLA where he served as a lecturer in the Geography Department before his appointment by the University of Arizona to teach for the YISA program in Nanjing. He earned his Master's degree at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1997, and attended the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Nanjing, China in 1998. Dr. Zackey conducted his thesis research in the Yunnan province on deforestation issues. His dissertation is titled, Deforestation Discourses: Nature, Narrative and Policyin Northwest Yunnan Province, P.R.C. Dr. Zackey brings a great enthusiasm for teaching into his Geography classes in China.