Faculty

Interview with Professor Andrew Jones
On May 2, 2003, fourth-year Asian Studies and Nutritional Sciences double major Hilary Ong interviewed Andrew Jones.

Interview with Professor Darren Zook
On May 5, 2003, Janny My Yen Truong, a second-year Asian Studies major interviewed Darren Zook, a lecturer in Political Science and Asian Studies.

Anthropology

Lawrence Cohen
South Asia, medical, sexuality, religion, gerontology

Nelson H.H. Graburn
Japan, kinship, art, tourism, circumpolar peoples

Junko Habu
Prehistory of Japan, archaeology and society, hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement, historical archaeology and ceramic analysis

Xin Liu
Social change and resistance in China and East Asia

Aihwa Ong
Southeast Asia, development, gender

Architecture

Dana Buntrock
Architectural Practice in Japan

Marc Treib
Japanese Gardens and Architecture

Art History

Patricia Berger
Chinese Buddhist art, Asian architecture, sculpture and painting

Gregory P. Levine
Japanese art and architecture

Joanna Williams
Indian and Southeast Asian art

Buddhist Studies

Patricia Berger
Chinese Buddhist art, Asian architecture, sculpture and painting

Gregory P. Levine
Japanese art and architecture

Eleanor Rosch
Cross-cultural Eastern psychologies, psychologies of religion

Robert Sharf
Medieval Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism

Alexander Von Rospatt
Doctrinal history of Indian Buddhism, Newar Buddhism

Duncan Ryuken Williams
Japanese Buddhist history, Japanese-American Buddhist diaspora, Buddhism and environmentalism, American Buddhism

Joanna Williams
Indian and Southeast Asian art

Business Administration

Robert E. Cole (also Sociology)
Industrial sociology, business organizations, Japanese business

Michael Gerlach
Japan, international business, strategy and policy

James R. Lincoln
Japanese management, organizational networks

David J. Teece
Organizational economics and public policy

David Vogel
American and comparative business-government relations

Comparative Literature

Miryam Sas (also Film Studies)
Japanese, French, and English literature and thought (especially twentieth century), memory, performance, surrealism, chance

Sophie Volpp (also East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Chinese literature of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Robert Ashmore
Classical Chinese literature

Yoko Hasegawa
Japanese linguistics

H. Mack Horton
Classical Japanese language and literature

Andrew Jones
Modern Chinese Literature

Susan Matisoff
Classical Japanese literature

Daniel O'Neill
Modern Japanese fiction, history of reading and narrative theory, film

William Schaefer
Modern Chinese literature and culture

Robert Sharf
Medieval Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism

Jiwon Shin
Late traditional and early modern Korean literature

Alan Tansman
Modern Japanese literature and culture

Paula Varsano
Classical Chinese poetry and poetics from the third through the eleventh centuries

Sophie Volpp (also Comparative Literature)
Chinese literature of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries

Economics

Chang-Tai Hsieh
East Asian growth and development

Yingyi Qian
China, comparative institutional economics, economics of transition

Ethnic Studies

Khatharya Um
Politics and Development in SE Asia.

Film Studies

Miryam Sas (also Comparative Literature)
Japanese, French, and English literature and thought (especially twentieth century), memory, performance, surrealism, and chance

Forestry

Nancy Lee Peluso
Resource and development issues in Indonesia and Southeast Asia

Jeffrey M. Romm
South & Southeast Asia, forest and wildland policy

Geography

Gillian Hart
Southeast Asia, development theory, agrarian and regional studies, labor, gender

You-tien Hsing
Economic restructuring and local states in post-Mao China

History

Andrew Barshay
Modern Japan

Mary Elizabeth Berry
Japan

Prachi Deshpande
South Asia

Eugene F. Irschick
South Asia, modern India

David G. Johnson
Premodern China, East Asia

David N. Keightley (emeritus)
Neolithic and Bronze Age China

Thomas R. Metcalf
South Asia, India, British imperialism

Michael Nylan
Early China

Irwin Scheiner
Japan, Far East, intellectual, social history

Wen-hsin Yeh
Modern China, social and cultural history

Peter Zinoman
Southeast Asia, Vietnam

Journalism

Orville Schell
Contemporary China

Carolyn Wakeman
Modern China, concurrent graduate program

Law

Robert C. Berring, Jr.
Chinese law, advanced legal research, legal professions

Richard M. Buxbaum
Indonesia, corporations, international business transactions

Robert H. Cole (emeritus)
South Asia, constitutional law, torts

Music

Benjamin Brinner
Ethnomusicology, Indonesian music

Bonnie Wade
South and East Asia, ethnomusicology

Political Science

Pradeep Chhibber
India; political parties and social cleavages, political economic reform, gender inequality.

Hong Yung Lee
China, Korea, East Asian international relations and political economy

Peter Lorentzen
Political economy and economic grown in developing countries with a focus on China

Kevin O'Brien
China, social movements, policy implementation, reform

T.J. Pempel
Contemporary politics, political economy, contemporary Japan, Asian regionalism

Steven Vogel
Japan, political economy

John Zysman
Japan, comparative politics, Western European politics

Psychology

Kaiping Peng
Cultural psychology, reasoning and judgment across cultures

Public Health

Teh-wei Hu
Social security systems in Taiwan and China, technology transfer

Rhetoric

David Cohen
Social theory, legal and social history, legal philosophy, classical rhetoric, international law, human rights

Social Welfare

Julian Chun-Chung Chow
Chinese migrant communities, service delivery, urban poverty

Sociology

Robert E. Cole (also Business Administration)
Organizations, work, Japanese society, quality

Thomas B. Gold
China, modernization and development, comparative development

John Lie
Social theory, political economy, Korean diaspora

Raka Ray
Political sociology, social movements, gender, research methods

South and Southeast Asian Studies

Vasudha Dalmia
Hindi literature

Munis D. Faruqui
Hinduism, colonial and post-colonial Hindi literature, medieval Indian religiosity, modern Hindi theatre

Robert P. Goldman
Sanskrit literature, Indian epics

Sally Sutherland Goldman
Sanskrit, Women's Studies, epic and classical Sanskrit literature

Jeffrey Hadler
Southeast Asia, Indonesia

George L. Hart III
Tamil language and literature

Susan Felop Kepner
Southeast Asia; literary translation, Southeast Asian writers, Thai literature

Aihwa Ong
Southeast Asia, development, gender

Sylvia Tiwon
Malay-Indonesian language and literature

Alexander Von Rospatt
Doctrinal history of Indian Buddhism, Newar Buddhism

Peter Zinoman
Southeast Asia, Vietnam