Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
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Aronson, Jonathan Professor, Communication and International Relations Research Areas: International political economy with a focus on trade negotiations, trade in services, comparative regulation, international strategic alliances, and international telecommunications |
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Baggott, Erin Assistant Professor, International Relations Research Areas: Chinese foreign policy and computational social science based on field research in China, documents about American foreign policy gained through Freedom of Information Act requests, and datasets of Chinese propaganda |
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Bernards, Brian *EASC Faculty Feature Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature Research Areas: Modern Chinese and Southeast Asian literature and cinema (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan), Sinophone studies, postcolonial studies, and inter-Asia cultural studies |
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Bialock, David Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature Research Areas: Premodern Japanese literature, classical Japanese poetry, literature and the environment, and ecocriticism |
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Birge, Bettine Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures and History Research Areas: Premodern Chinese history and gender, law and ethnicity in China and Inner Asia |
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Chae, Esther Assistant Professor, Acting (Dramatic Arts) Research Areas: Asian/Asian-American drama/playwriting and representation |
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Chen, Baizhu Professor, Clinical Finance and Business Economics Research Areas: Macroeconomics and international economics with an emphasis on China |
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Cheng, Meiling Professor, Critical Studies and English Research Areas: Performance art, body art, contemporary Euro-American experimental theater, modern Chinese performance art and live art |
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Chi, Iris Professor, Social Work The Chinese-American Golden Age Association/Dr. Frances Wu Chair Research Areas: Health and gerontology, long-term care for the elderly in the U.S. and China, and healthcare for Chinese immigrant communities in the U.S. |
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Chio, Jenny *EASC Faculty Feature Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures Research Areas: Media ethnography, anthropology of Modernity, collective memory and cultural heritage, tourism and migration, documentary practice, and race, ethnicity and nationalism in contemporary China |
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Choe, Youngmin *EASC Faculty Feature Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures Research Areas: Korean film and culture, contemporary East Asian visual culture, Trans-Asian cinema, tourism studies, and cultural studies |
| Chung, Ruth Gim Professor, Clinical Education Research Areas: Acculturation and cultural identity, cultural psychology, multicultural counseling, mental health and counseling, career development of racial and ethnic minorities, and intergenerational conflict with a focus on Asian American and Korean American immigrant families |
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De Leon, Adrian *EASC Faculty Feature Assistant Professor, American Studies and Ethnicity Research Areas: Indigeneity, migrant labor, and capitalism in the Philippines and the Filipinx diaspora as well as transpacific and oceanic critique, visual culture, rural history, food studies, and urban studies |
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Dekle, Robert Professor, Economics Research Areas: Economies of Japan and East Asia, international finance, and open-economy and development |
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Drobnick, Richard Director, International Business Education and Research program Research Areas: Pacific Rim economic and business issues and U.S. and Pacific Rim trade policies |
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Farver, Jo Ann Professor, Psychology Research Areas: Development psychology, social development of young children, cross-cultural developmental psychology, violence and young children, and early literacy |
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Frazier, Robeson Taj Associate Professor, Communication Research Areas: Histories and current-day dynamics of race and gender, cultural traffic and contact, urban culture and life, and popular culture of the African Diaspora in the U.S. and China |
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Goldstein, Joshua *EASC Faculty Feature Professor, History and East Asian Languages and Cultures Research Areas: Modern Chinese history and culture and recycling in China |
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Govil, Nitin *EASC Faculty Feature Associate Professor, Cinematic Arts Research Areas: Global Media, Transnational Hollywood, Asian Media, Media Industries, Comparative Methods, Genre and Star Studies, Science Fiction, Speculative Culture |
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Heikkila, Eric Professor and Director, Office of Global Engagement Research Areas: Urban development, economic development, East Asian cities, urban economics, and urban information systems |
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| Hoji, Hajime Associate Professor, Linguistics Research Areas: Japanese/East Asian linguistics |
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Hoskins, Janet Professor, Anthropology and Religion Research Areas: Visual anthropology, colonial and postcolonial theory, transnational religion, ritual performance, indigenous representations of the past and of time, and material culture, gender, exchange, narrative and healing |
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Houston, Velina Hasu Professor of Theatre in Dramatic Writing and Director, Dramatic Writing Program Distinguished Professor of Theatre in Dramatic Writing Research Areas: Asian-American drama/playwriting, multiethnic identity and interracial relationships |
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Hymans, Jacques Associate Professor, International Relations Research Areas: International relations and security in Asia and beyond, comparative foreign policy, nuclear proliferation, big science, professionalism, and national and supranational identity |
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Jia, Nan Associate Professor, Management and Organization Research Areas: Corporate political strategy, business-governance relationships, and corporate governance in international business |
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Junn, Jane Professor, Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies Associates Chair in Social Sciences Research Areas: California politics, including gubernatorial and congressional elections, public opinion, polling methods and analysis, women in politics, racial and ethnic politics, the politics of immigration, and political behavior |
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Kang, David *EASC Faculty Feature Professor, International Relations and Business, and Director, Korean Studies Institute Maria Crutcher Professor of International Relations Research Areas: International relations of Asia, economic development, security relations, and the historical basis of contemporary relations |
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Katada, Saori *EASC Faculty Feature Professor, International Relations Research Areas: North-South relations, Japanese foreign policy, international political economy, regionalism, Pacific Rim, international financial and monetary relations, and foreign aid |
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Kim, Annette M. Associate Professor, Public Policy and Director, Spatial Analysis Lab Research Areas: Housing and land use, international development planning, East Asian urbanization, race, arts, and placemaking, and critical mapping and urban analytics |
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Kondo, Dorinne Professor, Anthropology and American Studies and Ethnicity Research Areas: Japan, cultural theory, performance, aesthetics and politics, the question of the subject, cross-racial identification/multiracial collaboration, modes of embodiment, ethnography and genre, integration of “creative” and “critical” writing |
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Kurashige, Lon Professor, History and Spatial Sciences Research Areas: Asian-American history, Japanese American studies, ethnic identity politics, internment studies, and comparative ethnicity |
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Lee, Sonya *EASC Faculty Feature Professor, Art History, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Religion, and Director, East Asian Studies Center Research Areas: Religious art and architecture of premodern China, material culture of Chinese Buddhism and the ancient Silk Road, art and ecology, Asian art collecting, and heritage conservation |
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Li, Audrey Professor, Linguistics Research Areas: Syntax and Chinese language and linguistics |
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Lin, Jenny *EASC Faculty Feature Associate Professor, Critical Studies Research Areas: Contemporary Chinese and Chinese American art, architecture, and film; cross-cultural art and design, urban studies, and critical theory |
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Lippit, Akira Mizuta Vice Dean of Faculty, School of Cinematic Arts and Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Cinematic Arts, and Comparative Literature; T.C. Wang Family Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts Research Areas: Japanese film and culture, world cinemas, critical theory, experimental film and video, and visual studies |
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Lutkehaus, Nancy Professor of Anthropology and Political Science Research Areas: Melanesian Gender and Social Organization, Political and Economic Anthropology, Symbolic Anthropology, Art and Cultures of Oceania, Visual Culture, Ethnographic and Documentary Film |
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Markowitz, Jonathan Associate Professor, International Relations Research Areas: Power projection and grand strategy and political implications of climate change and resource competition in the North Sea and South China Sea |
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Meeks, Lori Associate Professor, Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures Research Areas: Women, gender, and religion, religious and social history of Japan, women’s history in East Asia, Buddhist literature and philosophy, Buddhist monasticism, and Japanese literature and culture |
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Moon, Roger Professor, Economics Research Areas: Econometrics theory, applied econometrics, empirical finance, and empirical international finance |
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Morgan, Alaina Assistant Professor, History Research Areas: African-American History, African Diaspora History, Afro-Asian Diaspora History, Islam, Muslims in the Americas, Modernist Islamic Thought, Black Intellectual History, Mass Incarceration, Urban History, Black Political Movements |
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Nugent, Jeffrey Professor, Economics and Business Research Areas: Chinese economic development, political economy of growth, small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, economic integration, and trade, institutions, industrial development and political economy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region |
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Pacifici, Eunjoo Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Director, D.K. Kim International Center for Regulatory Science Research Areas: Regulatory science, translational science, clinical pharmacy, and pharmaceutical economics and policy with a focus on Asia Pacific and Latin American regions |
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Park, Sunyoung *EASC Faculty Feature Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Areas: Modern and contemporary Korean literature and culture, postcolonial studies, transnational anarchism and Marxism, feminism and gender studies, and science fiction and technocultural studies |
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Parreñas, Rhacel Professor, Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Areas: Gender, labor, international migration, transnationalism and globalization, economic sociology, and family with past fieldwork done in Italy, Japan, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates and the United States |
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Piggott, Joan Professor, History and East Asian Languages and Cultures Gordon L. MacDonald Chair in History Research Areas: Premodern historical studies in Japan and East Asia and monarchy, family history, and church-state relations |
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Rajagopalan, Nandini Professor, Management and Organization Joseph A.DeBell Chair in Business Administration Research Areas: Corporate governance in emerging economies including China and India, corporate boards, platform-based markets, and corporate diversification |
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Rosen, Stanley *EASC Faculty Feature Professor, Political Science Research Areas: Politics in the People's Republic of China, Chinese film, and Chinese society |
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Sheehan, Brett *EASC Faculty Feature Professor, History and East Asian Languages and Cultures Research Areas: Modern China, economy and society, money and banking, and business |
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Shih, Jean C. Professor, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Neuroscience Boyd P. and Elsie D. Welin Professorship in Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Areas: Health promotion in China and Taiwan, molecular pharmacology, and toxicology |
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Shih, Stephanie S. Associate Professor, Linguistics Research Areas: Phonology, morphology, variation, computational linguistics, and cognitive science with current projects focused on Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog, Mende, Dioula, Hausa, and English |
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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 and Bengali |
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Strauss, John Professor, Economics and Gerontology Research Areas: International development economics and interaction between health, nutrition and economic development in China and Indonesia |
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Sun, Tianshu Robert R. Dockson Associate Professor, Data Sciences and Operations and Computer Science Research Areas: Digital platforms and IT-enabled and analytics-driven interventions and leveraging mobile devices and Internet of Things |
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Tan, Guofu Professor, Economics Research Areas: Chinese economy, auction theory, industrial organization, and competition and regulatory policies |
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Tang, Shui Yan Professor, Policy, Planning and Development Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor in Public Administration Research Areas: Environmental policy in China and East Asia, organizational commitment, institutional analysis, microcredit, and common-pool resources |
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Thomas, Douglas Associate Professor of Communication Research Areas: Intersection of technology and culture, Game Studies, Cybercrime and the culture of video games and the digital revolution in education |
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Uchiyama, Ben *EASC Faculty Feature Associate Professor, History Research Areas: Japanese mass culture and national mobilization in wartime, social history of the Japanese home front, politics and culture of occupied Japan, postwar cultural politics, and cultural history of defeated Japan |
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Wang, Jay Associate Professor, Public Relations and Director, Center on Public Diplomacy Research Areas: Nation branding, nonprofit branding, corporate diplomacy, and CSR practices in emerging economies with a focus on China |
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Wang, Mengxiao *EASC Faculty Feature Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures Research Areas: Premodern China, Buddhism, Chinese literature |
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Wang, Shiing-Wu Associate Professor, Accounting Research Areas: Financial accounting, tax and valuation issues in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and taxes and business strategy |
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Williams, Duncan *EASC Faculty Feature Professor, Religion and Director, Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture Research Areas: Buddhism, Japanese and Japanese American religions, Buddhism and nature/environment, Buddhism and WWII Japanese American incarceration, critical mixed race studies, and social history of religion |
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Wise, Carol Professor, International Relations Research areas: International political economy, institutional reform, international development, Latin American politics and economics, interdevelopment, and China-Latin American relations |
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Wong, Audrye *EASC Faculty Feature Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations Research Areas: The political economy of security, China's foreign policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, and the strategies and effectiveness of economic statecraft, with a focus on positive inducements |
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Wong, T.J. Professor, Business Administration and Accounting Joseph A. DeBell Professor of Business Administration Research areas: Accounting and corporate governance in emerging markets |
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Yang, Aimei Associate Professor, Journalism Research areas: Transnational civil networks, multi-sectoral alliance networks, public diplomacy, and dynamic social networks in social movements |
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Yang, Sha Vice-Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Marshall School of Business and Professor, Marketing Ernest Hahn Professor of Marketing Research areas: Consumer purchase behavior, market competition, search engine advertising, and social networks |
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Yasar, Kerim *EASC Faculty Feature Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures Research areas: Modern Japanese literature and cinema, media theory and history, auditory culture and musicology, translation theory and praxis, and performance studies and the history of Japanese film acting |
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Zu, Jessica *EASC Faculty Feature Assistant Professor, Religion Research Areas: Modern Chinese Buddhism |
