Interview with Barlow Professor Jeffrey Barlow, Ph.D. Professor Barlow is an Asianist. He teaches from the Asian nation's point of view. His approach and unique methods of teaching, therefore, offer students the opportunity to learn and see things from a different perspective. I chose to interview him for this reason.
All professors can choose the lense through which they teach the class.
Well, I try to do it as much as I can from the Vietnamese perspective, because I am an Asianist. And in teaching my courses about Asia, one of the things I need to do is tell my students what Americans think. Often they do not know. It is not covered that thoroughly in our culture. If you were to go to a high school text and look up China in the world history section, I suspect it would get about ten percent of the coverage that maybe France does.