A-C (Full Member Faculty)
Christopher Atwood, Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies (Ph.D., Indiana University): Mongolian language and history; Chinese history.
Christopher I. Beckwith, Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, (Ph.D., Indiana University): Chinese linguistics; Japanese-Koguryoic linguistics; Tibeto-Burman linguistics; Central Eurasian linguistics; early Central Eurasian and East Asian history.
Gardner Bovingdon, Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, (Ph.D., Cornell University): Comparative and Chinese politics; political economy; ethnic politics; qualitative research methodologies.
Xiaoqing Diana Chen Lin, Assistant Professor, IU Northwest, History, (Ph.D., University of Chicago): History of China and modern East Asia.
Sheena Choi, Assistant Professor, IU Purdue University, Fort Wayne Education, (Ph.D., State University of New York): Comparative and international education, sociology of education, East Asia.
Laurel L. Cornell, Associate Professor, Sociology, Gender Studies, EALC, (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University): Sociology of Japan; East Asian social and historical demographies.
Nicholas Cullather, Associate Professor, History, (Ph.D., University of Virginia): U.S. foreign relations; Southeast Asia.
D-J (Full Member Faculty)
Marc Dollinger, Lawrence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business Administration, Chair of Undergraduate Programs, Business (Ph.D., Lehigh University): Chinese management practices; value of a good reputation; minority business enterprise; development of cooperative strategies in fragmented industries.
Robert Eno, Associate Professor, EALC, Adjunct Associate Professor, Philosophy, (Ph.D., University of Michigan): Chinese philosophy; early Chinese history.
Sara Friedman, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Gender Studies, Adjunct Assistant Professor, EALC (Ph.D., Cornell University): Gender and sexuality; marriage and kinship; socialism; cultural and political change; subjectivity; gender and labor politics; ethnicity; China and Taiwan.
Yoshiko Green, Lecturer, IU South Bend, Foreign Languages, (M.S., Indiana University, South Bend): Japanese.
Rick Harbaugh, Assistant Professor, Business (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania): Chinese economy; economics of communication; Chinese characters; Internet economy.
Joseph L. Hoffmann, Professor, Law (J.D., University of Washington): Criminal law; Japanese law and society.
Ho-fung Hung, Assistant Professor, Sociology (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University): Politics; globalization; nationalism; social movements; East Asian history and political economy.
K-N (Full Member Faculty)
Heejoon Kang, Professor, Business (Ph.D., University of Washington): Business economics and public policy.
Gregory J. Kasza, Professor, EALC and Political Science (Ph.D., Yale University): Modern Japanese politics and business; Japanese social institutions and mass media.
Scott Kennedy, Associate Professor, EALC and Political Science (Ph.D., George Washington University): Comparative politics; contemporary Chinese and East Asian politics/political economy.
Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Associate Professor, Linguistics (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts): Japanese linguistics; comparative syntax; interaction of morphology and syntax; syntax-semantics mapping.
Hyo Sang Lee, Associate Professor/Korean Language Program Coordinator, EALC (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles): Korean language and linguistics; comparative study of East Asian languages; discourse-pragmatic and cognitive approach to grammar.
Jennifer Li-chia Liu, Associate Professor/Chinese Language Program Coordinator, EALC (Ph.D., University of Oregon): Chinese language and pedagogy; second language acquisition; teaching technologies.
Wen-ling Diana Liu, Librarian, Herman B Wells Library, East Asian Collection (M.L.S., Indiana University).
Misako Matsubara, Lecturer, EALC (M.A., Indiana State University, Michigan State University): Japanese language pedagogy; language variation and change; gender and language.
Ethan Michelson, Assistant Professor, Sociology, EALC (Ph.D., University of Chicago): Chinese society; law and society; work; occupations and professions; development.
Klaus Mühlhahn, Professor, History; Adjunct Professor, EALC (Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin): Modern Chinese social and cultural history; Chinese legal history; history of state violence; imperialism and colonialism in China.
Osamu James Nakagawa, Associate Professor, FINA (M.F.A., University of Houston): international photographer.
O-S (Full Member Faculty)
Scott O'Bryan, Assistant Professor, EALC and History (Ph.D., Columbia University): Twentieth-century Japan; economic nationalism; consumption and consumer culture; environmental history; peace thought and practice.
Masato Ogawa, Assistant Professor, IU Kokomo, Education ( Ed.D., University of Georgia): Secondary education; learning and teaching of history; historical perspectives on issues facing international teachers in U.S. K-12 classrooms; comparative textbook analyses and Japanese education.
Harold Pepinsky, Professor, Criminal Justice (Ph.D., University. of Pennsylvania; J.D., Harvard University): Alternative control systems; Chinese criminal justice; law and social control in China.
Jean C. Robinson, Professor, Political Science, EALC; Affiliated Professor, Gender Studies; Adjunct Professor, West European Studies, Kinsey Institute, and Russian and East European Institute; (Ph.D., Cornell University): Modern Chinese politics and education; comparative women and family.
Michael Robinson, Professor, EALC (Ph.D., University of Washington): Intellectual and cultural history of modern Korea; Japanese colonialism; popular culture; transnational studies.
Heidi Ross, Professor, Education; Adjunct Professor, EALC (Ph.D., University of Michigan): Comparative and international education; East Asian schooling; Chinese secondary schooling; gender and schooling.
Richard Rubinger, Professor, EALC; Adjunct Professor, History and Education; Director of the Research Center for Japanese Educational History (Ph.D., Columbia University): Japanese history and society; education and literacy; Japanese language.
Edith L. Sarra, Associate Professor, EALC; Adjunct Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies (Ph.D., Harvard University): Japanese language; classical Japanese literature; feminist literary theory.
Yu Shen, Visiting Assistant Professor, IU Southeast, History, (Ph.D., University of London): Modern China; East Asian history.
Elliot Sperling, Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies (Ph.D., Indiana University): Tibetan language and culture; Sino-Tibetan relations.
Aaron Stalnaker, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies (Ph.D., Brown University): Comparative religious ethics; philosophy of religions (theistic, non-theistic, and comparative); Chinese thought; Christian thought; moral philosophy; theories of religion.
Marvin Sterling, Assistant Professor, Anthropology (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles): Japan; Jamaica; race; cultural globalization; identity; performance; human rights.
Lynn A. Struve, Professor, History and EALC (Ph.D., University of Michigan): Traditional Chinese history; late imperial political and intellectual history; Chinese reference/source materials.
Michiko Suzuki, Assistant Professor, EALC (Ph.D., Stanford University): Modern Japanese literature; fiction; literary genre and criticism; cultural and gender studies; Identity construction.
T-Z (Full Member Faculty)
Kevin Tsai, Acting Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature; Acting Adjunct Assistant Professor, EALC; Faculty Member, Program in Ancient Studies ( ): Traditional Chinese fiction and drama; gender and genre; Greek and Roman literature; East-West comparative studies.Natsuko Tsujimura, Professor, EALC; Adjunct Professor, Linguistics (Ph.D., University of Arizona): Japanese language; linguistics and language pedagogy; theoretical linguistics.
Sue M. C. Tuohy, Senior Lecturer, Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Affiliated faculty, EALC and International Studies (Ph.D., Indiana University): East Asian music and folklore; Chinese culture; ethnicity, nationalism and tourism.
Greg Waller, Professor and Chair, Communication and Culture (Ph.D., State University of New York): Entertainment and culture.
Yasuko Ito Watt, Associate Professor/Japanese Language Coordinator, EALC (Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University): Japanese language pedagogy; applied linguistics.
Mieko Yamada, Assistant Professor, IU Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Sociology, (Ph.D., Western Michigan University): Sociology of education, international and comparative education, Japanese education, race and ethnic relations, Japanese minority groups, Japanese popular culture.
Reiko Yonogi, Professor, IUPUI, Japanese, (Ph.D., University of Illinois): Japanese language and literature; comparative literature.
Xin Zhang: Associate Professor, IUPUI History, (Ph.D., University of Chicago): Modern Chinese history.
Lin Zou, Assistant Professor, EALC (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley): Comparative literature; Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film; Classical Chinese Aesthetics; Late Imperial Chinese Literature .
EASC Faculty Emeriti
Jurgis Elisonas, Professor Emeritus, EALC and History (Ph.D., Harvard University): Pre-modern Japanese history; Japan's international relations.
Eugene C. Eoyang, Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature and EALC (Ph.D., Indiana University): Chinese literature; Chinese-Western literary relations; theory of translation.
Charles Greer, Professor Emeritus, Geography (Ph.D., University of Washington): East Asian cultural and environmental geography; resource management and environment in China.
Yoshio Iwamoto, Professor Emeritus, EALC and Comparative Literature (Ph.D., University of Michigan): Modern Japanese language, literature and culture; Japanese-Western literary relations; Japanese cinema; the relationship between literature and politics.
Roger L. Janelli, Professor Emeritus, Folklore and Ethnomusicology (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania): Korean culture and social organization; East Asian ethnography; religion and political economy.
Sumie A. Jones, Professor Emerita, EALC and Comparative Literature (Ph.D., University of Washington): Japanese language and literature; literary theory and aesthetics; literature and the arts.
Susan Nelson, Former Chair and Professor Emerita, EALC; Professor Emerita, Fine Arts (Ph.D., Harvard University): East Asian art history; Chinese painting.
Roy W. Shin, Former Chairperson, Policy and Administration Faculty; Professor Emeritus, SPEA (Ph.D., University of Minnesota): Comparative public and industrial policy, management and development in East Asia; bureaucracy in Korea.
George M. Wilson, Former Director, EASC; Professor Emeritus, History and EALC (Ph.D., Harvard University): Modern Japanese intellectual and cultural history; nationalism and revolution in Japan; East Asian history.
Margaret M. Yan, Professor Emerita, EALC (Ph.D., Stanford University): Chinese language, linguistics and language pedagogy; Chinese phonology and dialectology.
EASC Associate Members
A-F (Associate Members)
Arthur S. Alderson: Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies; Sociology (Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill): Social inequality.
George Alter: Professor, History; Director, Population Institute for Research and Training; (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania): Historical demography; history of the family; economic history; 19th-century Europe; comparisons of family systems in Europe and Asia.
Michael Chambers: Associate Professor, Indiana State University, Political Science, (Ph.D., Columbia University): International relations; comparative politics; Asian politics.
Elise Marie Edwards: Assistant Professor, Butler University, History and Anthropology (Ph.D., University of Michigan): Sport and Japanese modernity; women's history; gender and sexuality in Asia; Japanese mass/popular culture.
Jacques Fuqua, Jr.: Director, International Engagement, Communication and Protocol, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (M.A., Indiana University): East Asian security issues.
G-P (Associate Members)
Robert M. Goodman: Dean and Professor, School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, (Ph.D., University of North Carolina): Global health; cross-cultural competence; East Asian public health approaches.
Jeffrey Hart: Professor, Political Science, (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley): International politics; international political economy; politics of competition in high technology industries; politics and film.
Sally A. Hastings: Associate Professor, Purdue University, History, (Ph.D., University of Chicago): Modern Japan; Japanese women's issues.
Margaret Key: Associate Director, EASC, Indiana University (Ph.D., Indiana University): Modern Japanese literature.
Huei-Ying Kuo: Assistant Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology,
Humanities and Social Sciences (Ph.D., State University of New
York-Binghamton): Modern China; Chinese diasporas; nationalism; modern
world-system theories; business and immigration networks.
Andrea Lee McElderry: Professor Emerita of History, University of Louisville (Ph.D., University of Michigan): Chinese business history.
Taemin Kim Park: Associate Librarian, Library Technical Services (Ph.D., Indiana University): Korean literature; information retrieval; information storage.
Anne Prescott: Associate Director, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D., Kent State University): Ethnomusicology; East Asian music and culture; Japanese music and culture; koto.
Q-S (Associate Members)
Shawn Reynolds: Associate Director, Center for International Education Development Assistance, International Programs, (M.A., Indiana University): University administration; East Asian trade.
Jim Robinson: Jane Weldon Myers Curator of Asian Art, Asian Department, Indianapolis Museum of Art (Ph.D., University of Michigan): Asian art, primarily Chinese art.
Eiji Sekine: Associate Professor, Purdue University, Foreign Languages and Literatures, (Ph.D., Indiana University): Japanese literature.
Dmitry Shlapentokh: Associate Professor, Indiana University South Bend, History, (Ph.D., University of Chicago ): Russia, Asia and China.
Doug Slaymaker: Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, Co-Director, Japan Studies Program, (Ph.D., University of Washington): Modern Japan; popular culture in Japan; postwar Japan.
Kristin Stapleton: Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, History, (Ph.D., Harvard University): Modern Chinese history; comparative East Asian urban history; Chinese humor.
Judith A. Stubbs: Pamela Buell Curator of Asian Art, IU Art Museum, Assistant Professor, Art History, (Ph.D., University of Chicago): Japanese and Chinese painting and prints; Buddhist sculpture in India and China to 618.
T-Z (Associate Members)
John Teramoto: Associate Curator of Asian Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art (Ph.D., University of Michigan): Japanese art history.
Paul Watt: Professor and Director of Asian Studies, DePauw University, Asian Studies/Religious Studies, (Ph.D., Columbia University): Religion and Japanese culture; Japanese Buddhism; East Asian religions.
Roberta Wollons: Professor, IU Northwest, History and Philosophy, (Ph.D., University of Chicago): Women's studies.
Liana Zhou: Head of Library, Kinsey Institute (M.L.S., Indiana University): Chinese literature; Asian sexuality.
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