Affiliated Faculty
Professor, Communication and International Relations
Research Areas: International communication policy, globalization and international trade
Bernards, Brian
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Modern Chinese and Southeast Asian literature and cinema, Sinophone studies, postcolonial studies
Bialock, David
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Medieval Japanese literature, classical Japanese poetry, literature and the environment
Birge, Bettine
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures and History
Research Areas: Pre-modern Chinese Civilization
Birnbaum-More, Philip
Professor, Management and Organization
Research Areas: Competitive strategy formulation and implementation in high technology firms in global markets including the Pacific Rim
Chang, John (Wen-Kuang)
Master Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Chinese language and pedagogy
Chen, Baizhu
Professor, Clinical Finance and Business Economics
Research Areas: Macroeconomics and international economics (emphasis on China)
Cheng, Harrison
Associate Professor, Economics
Research Areas: Chinese economic development
Cheng, Meiling
Associate Professor, Theatre, Critical Studies, and English
Research Areas: Chinese contemporary art, performance art, visual and kinetic theatre
Cheung, Dominic
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature
Research Areas: Modern and classical Chinese literature, Chinese cultural studies and art
Chi, Iris
Professor, Social Work
Research Areas: Long-term care and community service systems for the elderly in the U.S. and China, mental health chronic illness, social support
Choe, Young-Min
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Korean film and culture, contemporary East Asian visual culture, trans-Asian cinema
Choung, Jinhee
Lecturer, Political Science
Research Areas: East Asian comparative politics, economic development, and Korean labor reform
Chow, Mina
Lecturer, Architecture
Research Areas: International design, architecture, planning
Chung, Ruth Gim
Associate Professor, Clinical Education
Research Areas: Asian-American cultural identity, Korean American acculturation and identity, mental health and intergenerational conflict
Cooper, Eugene
Professor, Anthropology
Research Areas: Chinese civilization, folk custom, popular religion, contemporary China
Dekle, Robert
Professor, Economics
Research Areas: Economies of Japan and East Asia, international finance, open-economy and development
Drobnick, Richard
Director, Center for International Business Education and Research, and Research Professor, Management and Organization
Research Areas: Pacific Rim economic and business issues
Farver, Jo Ann
Professor, Psychology
Research Areas: Cross-cultural studies of Mainland Chinese school age children, development psychology, violence and young children, early literacy
Fong, Mei
Lecturer, Communication and Journalism
Research Areas: International journalism in China, Asia, and beyond
Frazier, Robeson Taj
Assistant Professor, Communication
Research Areas: Media influences between Chinese/Asian and Black Americans, race relations, cross cultural exchange
Godart, Clinton
Assistant Professor, History
Research Areas: Modern Japanese history, intellectual history of Japan, history of science, Buddhism in modern Japan
Goldstein, Joshua
Associate Professor, History
Research Areas: Modern Chinese history
Hamao, Yasushi
Associate Professor, Finance and Business Economics
Research Areas: Japanese financial markets and institutions
Hawkins, Joseph
Lecturer, Anthropology
Research Areas: Japan, homosexuality, rituals, elite restaurants
Hayden, George
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Premodern Chinese literature, text and music of classical drama, history of Chinese language
Heikkila, Eric
Professor, Policy, Planning & Development, Director, International Initiatives
Research Areas: Urban and economic development in East Asia
Hildebrandt, Timothy
Lecturer, International Relations
Research Areas: State and society relations; the evolving relationship between social actors with states (at both domestic and international levels), particularly in the authoritarian context.
Hoji, Hajime
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Linguistics
Research Areas: Japanese/East Asian linguistics
Holz, Carsten
Visiting Professor, Economics
Research Areas: Chinese economic development and international economics
Hong, Yu
Assistant Professor, Communication
Research Areas: China's information and communications industry
Houston, Velina Hasu
Professor, Theatre
Research Areas: Asian-American drama/playwriting, multiethnic identity and interracial relationships
Huang, Nansong
Associate Professor (Teaching), East Asian Languages & Cultures
Research Areas: Chinese language and pedagogy
Hung, Mingyi
Associate Professor, Accounting
Research Areas: Accounting information in global markets and China
Hwang, Kyung Moon
Associate Professor, History
Research Areas: Modern transformation of the structures of socio-political authority and hierarchy in Korea
Hymans, Jacques
Assistant Professor, International Relations
Research Areas: International security in Asia and beyond, comparative foreign policy, nuclear proliferation, and the growth and impact of collective identities
Irie, Maki
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Japanese syntax and semantics
James, David
Professor, Cinematic Arts
Research Areas: Asian cinema and avant-garde cinema
Jian, Lian
Assistant Professor, Communication
Research Areas: Global economics of online information systems, peer-to-peer online sharing, and online content production
Joines, Douglas
Professor, Finance and Business Economics
Research Areas: Taxes, deficits, and social security in the global system including Japan
Kang, David
Director, East Asian Studies Center, Professor, International Relations and Business, and Director, Korean Studies Institute
Research Areas: International relations of Asia, economic development, security relations, and the historical basis of contemporary relations
Katada, Saori
Associate Professor, International Relations
Research Areas: Japanese foreign policy, international political economy, and regionalism
Kato, Yayoi
Lecturer, Political Science
Research Areas: Chinese politics
Kim, Nam-Kil
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Korean and East Asian linguistics
Kim, Sunkyung
Lecturer, Art History
Research Areas: Buddhist, Korean, and East Asian art history
Kondo, Dorinne
Professor, Anthropology and American Studies and Ethnicity
Research Areas: Japan, cultural theory, performance , aesthetics and politics, cross-racial identification/ multiracial collaboration, modes of embodiment, ethnography
Kumagai, Yuka
Master Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Japanese language pedagogy
Kurashige, Lon
Associate Professor, History and American Studies and Ethnicity
Research Areas: Asian-American racial ideologies, politics of identity, emigration/immigration, and social reproduction
Lee, Jehoon
Director, Center for Asian-Pacific Leadership, Research Associate Professor, Social Work
Research Areas: Korea-U.S. exchange, local government administration, housing, planning methods
Lee, Kwan Min
Associate Professor, Communication
Research Areas: Social and psychological impacts of communication and Korea telecommunications
Lee, Sonya
Associate Professor, Art History and East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Chinese religious art and architecture, visual cultures of the Silk Road
Li, Audrey
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Linguistics
Research Areas: Chinese language and linguistics and syntax
Liao, Hsiao-Yun
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Chinese language
Lih, Andrew
Associate Professor, Journalism
Research Areas: New media and international journalism
Lin, Thomas
Professor, Accounting
Research Areas: Chinese accounting and management, control systems, strategic cost management
Lippit, Akira Mizuta
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Cinematic Arts, and Comparative Literature
Research Areas: Japanese film and culture, experimental film and video, critical and literary theory, visual culture
Lynch, Daniel
Associate Professor, International Relations
Research Areas: Politics of greater China and East Asian relations
Ma, Qingyun
Dean, Architecture
Research Areas: International design, planning, and architecture
Magriney, Christopher
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Chinese language
Matsumoto, Yumi
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Japanese Language
Meeks, Lori
Associate Professor, Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Religious and social history of Japan, Buddhist Monasticism, women and gender
Mizuta, Miya
Adjunct Assistant Professor (Teaching), East Asian Languages and Cultures and Art History
Research Areas: Japanese literature
Moon, Roger
Professor, Economics
Research Areas: International finance, econometrics theory, applied econometrics, and empirical finance
Nugent, Jeffrey
Professor, Economics and Business
Research Areas: China economic development, political economy of reform, functions of business associations, small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises
Osaka, Makiko
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Japanese language
Path, Kosal
Lecturer, International Relations
Research Areas: Asia and Southeast Asia politics
Park, C. Whan
Professor, Marketing
Research Areas: International consumer research and marketing
Park, Sunyoung
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Modern Korea literary and cultural history
Piggott, Joan
Professor, History
Research Areas: Pre-modern historical studies in Japan and East Asia
Pryor, Larry
Associate Professor, Journalism
Research Areas: Critical studies of technology, chaos theory in international journalism, and new media interaction
Rajagopalan, Nandini
Professor, Management and Organization
Research Areas: Corporate governance in emerging economies including China and India, corporate boards, and corporate diversification
Richardson, Harry
Professor, Policy, Planning & Development
Research Areas: Growth management policies in the U.S., Japan, and Korea, and urban/regional development
Rosen, Stanley
Professor, Political Science
Research Areas: Politics in the People's Republic of China, Chinese film, and Chinese society
Seaman, Gary
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Research Areas: Taiwan, China, ethnographic film, hypermedia and religious rituals
Seiter, Ellen
Professor, Cinematic Arts
Research Areas: New media technologies, gender and media, and use of technologies in the domestic sphere and the classroom
Sheehan, Brett
Associate Professor, History
Research Areas: Development of Chinese business culture
Shih, Jean C.
Professor, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Neuroscience
Research Areas: Health promotion in China, molecular pharmacology and toxicology
Shin, Jeeyoung
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Korean cinema and media, contemporary Korean literature, gender and sexuality
Silverstein, Merril
Professor, Gerontology and Sociology
Research Areas: Aging/rural communities in China
Simpson, Andrew
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Linguistics
Research Areas: Comparative syntax of East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian languages: Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Bengali
Steele, James
Professor, Architecture
Research Areas: Asian architecture, history and theory of architecture
Strauss, John
Professor, Economics
Research Areas: International development economics and the economics of the household
Sun, Shaoyi
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Chinese literature and film
Tamanaha, Masako
Assistant Professor (Teaching), East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Japanese language pedagogy
Tan, Guofu
Professor, Economics
Research Areas: Chinese economy, transition economies, antitrust economics, auction theory, and industrial organization
Tang, Paul
Adjunct Associate Professor, Architecture
Research Areas: Entertainment, retail/commercial, institutional, and residential international architecture
Tang, Shui Yan
Professor, Policy, Planning & Development
Research Areas: Environmental policy in Taiwan and East Asia, microcredit, and common-pool resources
Tseng, Tinyu
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Chinese Language
Wang, Jay
Associate Professor, Communication
Research Areas: Communication in the contemporary process of globalization, with a focus on China
Wang, Juliana
Assistant Professor of the Practice, Environmental Studies Program
Research Areas: Energy economics, water resource management, urban economics, economics of climate change, regulation and governance of natural monopolies, and sustainable development.
Wang, Shiing-Wu
Associate Professor, Business
Research Areas: Financial accounting and taxation
Williams, Duncan
Associate Professor, Religion
Research Areas: Japanese Buddhist history, Buddhism and environmentalism, and American Buddhism
Wiseman, Geoffrey
Professor of the Pratice, International Relations
Research Areas: Diplomatic theory, international security, and the Asia-Pacific Region
Wong, Ka
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Chinese Language
Xiao, Yan
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Chinese science and technology, seismic analysis, and implementation of new materials into structural design
Yang, Ping
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Chinese Language
Emeriti Faculty
Berger, Gordon
Professor Emeritus, History
Research Areas: 20th century political and institutional Japanese history
Berton, Peter A
Professor Emeritus, International Relations
Research Areas: Japanese politics
Dingman, Roger
Professor Emeritus, International Relations
Research Areas: U.S.-Japan relations
Fromson, Murray
Professor Emeritus, Communication and Journalism
Research Areas: International journalism
Furth, Charlotte
Professor Emeritus, History
Research Areas: Cultural studies of science and gender in China and history of the late l9th/20th centuries to Ming-Qing period and beyond
Rideout, William
Professor Emeritus, Education
Research Areas: International/intercultural Education
Schnepp, Otto
Professor Emeritus, Chemistry
Research Areas: Science and technology of modern China and optical molecular spectroscopy
Wills, Jr., John
Professor Emeritus, History
Research Areas: History of maritime Asia and Chinese history
Librarians
Bialock, Tomoko
Librarian, East Asian Library
Research Areas: Japanese studies and collections
Kim, Joy
Curator, Korean Heritage Library
Research Areas: Korean acquisitions
Klein, Kenneth
Head Librarian, East Asian Library
Research Areas: East Asian library acquisitions
Lee, Sun-Yoon
Librarian, East Asian Library
Research Areas: Korean multimedia acquisitions
Yang, Lillian
Librarian, East Asian Library
Research Areas: Chinese acquisitions
Postdoctoral Fellows
Chen, Christina
Postdoctoral Fellow, USCI (The Politics of Labor Protection in Post-Reform China)
Fahy, Sandra
AKS Postdoctoral Fellow, Korean Studies Institute
Research Areas: North Korean refugee experiences in South Korea
Fiss, Geraldine
Postdoctoral Fellow, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas: Transformation and recreation of foreign ideas and texts by modern Chinese writers
Lee, Jungeun
Postdoctoral Fellow, Korean Studies Institute
Liu, Derek
Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S.-China Institute
Research Areas: Central control vs. decentralization in China using evidence from the local social policy development, comparative political economy, social welfare policy, authoritarian regimes
Park, Seoyoung
Postdoctoral Fellow, Korean Studies Institute
Research Areas: Dongdaemun Market in South Korea and construction of temporalities of the 24-hour city through NGO experiment, transnational circuits of production-consumption, and labor experiences
Sung, Ki-Young
Postdoctoral Fellow, Korean Studies Institute
Research Areas: International studies and Inter-Korea trade
Woo, Susie
Postdoctoral Fellow, American Studies and Ethnicity
Research Areas: Race, gender, immigration, popular culture, formation of interracial families as a result of the Korean War
Yasuda, Anri
Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar
Research Areas: Japanese literature and visual culture from late 19th century to present
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