
Faculty
Nearly 100 faculty members at UC Berkeley specialize in topics related to East Asia.
Agricultural and Resource Economics
Maximillian Auffhammer China, climate change, China's role in reducing greenhouse gases
David Roland-Holst Economics of Global Warming, Regional Economic Development in China
Anthropology
Nelson H.H. Graburn (emeritus) Japan, kinship, art, tourism, circumpolar peoples
Junko Habu Prehistory of Japan, hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement
Xin Liu China, social/cultural anthropology
Aihwa Ong South China, Southeast Asia, transnational identities
Architecture
Dana Buntrock Architectural practice in Japan, construction industry
Renee Chow Architecture and urban design in China
Margaret Crawford Chinese urbanization
Art History
Patricia Berger Chinese Buddhist art, Asian architecture, sculpture and painting
James Cahill (emeritus) Chinese and Japanese art
Gregory P. Levine Japanese art and architecture
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
Julia White Contemporary and traditional Chinese arts
Business Administration
James Lincoln Organizational design and innovation, Japanese management
C.V. Starr East Asian Library
Peter X. Zhou East Asian historical records, information management, library history, Chinese linguistics
Comparative Literature
Miryam Sas Japanese, French, and English literature and thought
Sophie Volpp Chinese literature of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Jinsoo An Korean film, national identity
Robert Ashmore Classical Chinese literature
Weihong Bao Chinese film and media culture from late nineteenth century to present
Mark Csikszentmihalyi Early Chinese religions, philosophies, and cultures
Jacob Dalton Tibetan Buddhism
Yoko Hasegawa Japanese linguistics
H. Mack Horton Classical Japanese language and literature
Andrew F. Jones Modern Chinese literature
Kijoo Ko Teaching Korean as a foreign language
Lewis R. Lancaster (emeritus) East Asian Buddhism
I-Hao Li Chinese language
Li Liu Chinese language
Sanjyot Mehendale Trade and cultural exchange of the early Common Era
Daniel O'Neill Modern Japanese literature
Robert Sharf Medieval Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism
Chika Shibahara Japanese language
Alan Tansman Modern Japanese literature
Paula Varsano Classical Chinese poetry and poetics from the third through the eleventh centuries
Sophie Volpp Chinese literature of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries
Lihua Zhang Germanic, English and Chinese contrastive linguistics
Economics
Barry Eichengreen Economic history, international economics
Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Peng Gong Computer recognition and analysis of the environment
Dara O'Rourke Environmental, social, and equity impacts of global production
Ethnic Studies
Keiko Yamanaka International migration in East Asia
Film & Media
Weihong Bao Chinese film and media culture from late nineteenth century to present
Miryam Sas Japanese, French, and English literature and thought
Geography
You-tien Hsing Post-Mao China, newly industrialized economies in Asia
History
Andrew Barshay Modern Japanese intellectual and economic history
Mary Elizabeth Berry Japan, Kyoto during the sengoku period, the Confucian family orientation
Alexander C. Cook Cultural, intellectual, legal, and political history of 20th-century China
David G. Johnson (emeritus) Premodern China, traditional Chinese popular culture
David N. Keightley (emeritus) Neolithic and Bronze Age China
Michael Nylan Early China
Irwin Scheiner (emeritus) Japan, Far East, intellectual, social, late Tokugawa
Nicolas Tackett Ninth to eleventh century China
Wen-hsin Yeh Modern China, social and cultural history
Information Management & Systems
John Chuang Technical, economic, and policy dimensions of computer networking
Anna-Lee Saxenian The exporting of information technology
Qiang Xiao Participatory media, China and human rights
Industrial Relations
Katie Quan Immigrant workers, women workers, labor in the global economy
International and Area Studies
Eunsu Cho Buddhist philosophy, Korean philosophy
Keiko Yamanaka International migration in East Asia
Journalism
Todd Carrel China and Japan
Law
Robert C. Berring, Jr. Chinese law, legal research
Stanley Lubman Chinese law, administrative law
Rachel Stern China, law, social movements and environmental issues
Alex Wang China, rule of law, environmental governance, regulation in developing countries and authoritarian states
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mark Levine Energy modeling, energy-efficiency policy
Music
Ken Ueno Extended Vocal Techniques, Non-Western Instruments, Microtonality
Bonnie Wade South and East Asia, ethnomusicology
Optometry
Xiaohua Gong New approaches to visual impairments and the causes for blindness
Christine F. Wildsoet From bench to chair side — translating cultural, environmental and genetic influences on myopia development and progression into novel therapies.
Political Science
Vinod Aggarwal Political Economy of Asia
Lowell Dittmer China, North and East Asian governments and politics
Barry Eichengreen Economic history, international economics
Hong Yung Lee China, comparative government, East Asian politics
Peter Lorentzen China, political economy and economic grown in developing countries
Kevin O'Brien China, social movements, policy implementation, reform
T.J. Pempel Contemporary Japan, Asian regionalism, comparative politics, political economy
Rachel Stern China, law, social movements and environmental issues
Steven Vogel Japan, comparative and international political economy
Psychology
Kaiping Peng Cultural psychology, reasoning and judgment across cultures
Qing Zhou Cultural influences on socio-emotional development, with a particular interest in Chinese and Chinese American populations
Public Health
Teh-wei Hu (emeritus) Social security systems in Taiwan and China, technology transfer
Edmund Seto Environmental change and emerging infectious disease
Robert Spear (emeritus) Human exposures to toxic agents in the environment
Rhetoric
Pheng Cheah Chinese diaspora, East Asian capitalism
Social Welfare
Julian Chun-Chung Chow Chinese migrant communities, service delivery, urban poverty
Sociology
Thomas B. Gold Chinese civil society, entrepreneurship, development
John Lie Korean diaspora, social theory, political economy
Theater Dance & Performance Studies
Sansan Kwan Critical dance studies; transnational Asian American studies; cultural geography; theories of space and kinesthesia, interculturalism, modern dance, ballet, and yoga; theories of Chineseness
