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Xin Liu

Anthropology

Social/cultural anthropology, history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, development and social change, China/East AsiaRead more about Xin Liu

Aihwa Ong (Emerita)

Anthropology

Global technologies, modes of governing, technoscientific assemblages, and citizenship in particular Asian contexts of emergence.Read more about Aihwa Ong (Emerita)

Patricia Berger (Emerita)

Chinese Buddhist art; Asian architecture, sculpture and painting

Jun Hu

Chinese art and architecture, with an emphasis on how the material process of art-making intersects with other modes of knowledge production

International business and management, particularly Japanese management; organizational design, interorganizational networks, organizational theory and research methods; labor and industrial relations

Robert Ashmore

Chinese literature of the third through eleventh centuries, with special interests in lyric poetry and poetic theory, song and musical performance, and traditional concepts of identity and personality.

Weihong Bao

Film theory, media archaeology, intermedia aesthetics, theater and performance studies, architecture and spatial modernity, contemporary Chinese documentary, experimental art, video, and installations.

Mark Csiszentmihalyi

Religions, philosophies, and cultures of early China

Jacob Dalton

Tibetan Buddhism, Nyingma religious history, tantric ritual development, Buddhism and violence, paleography, and the Dunhuang manuscripts

Andrew Jones

Modern and vernacular Chinese literature and popular culture, music, media culture, and children's literature

Ling Hon Lam

16th-19th century Chinese literature, early Chinese theater, modern media adaptation, history of emotion, sex and gender, critical theory

Li Liu

Chinese language

Daniel C. O'Neill

East Asian Cinema, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cinema and Media Theory, Environmental Media and Eco-criticism (Taiwan, Japan, Asia-Pacific)

Lanchih Po

Divergent regional economies in China, the socio-economic transformations associated with China's (sub)urbanization process, land politics and property rights reforms in China

Robert Sharf

Medieval Chinese Buddhism (especially Chan), Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, and methodological issues in the study of religion

Paula Varsano

Classical Chinese poetry and poetics; literature and subjectivity; evolution of spatial representation in poetry; history and poetics of traditional literary criticism; theory and practice of translation

Sophie Volpp

Chinese literature of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. History of performance, gender theory, the history of sexuality, and the representation of material culture

Lihua Zhang

Germanic, English and Chinese contrastive linguistics. Linguistics, language acquisition and pedagogy, as well as semiotics

Barry Eichengreen

Economic history, international economics

Gérard Roland

Institutions and development, culture and economics, political institutions and economic outcomes, reforms in China and North Korea

Dara O'Rourke

Environmental, social, and equity impacts of global production systems and new strategies of democratic governance

Carolyn Chen

Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Ethnicity, Immigration, Race, Religion

Lok Siu

Diaspora; Transnationalism; Migration; Cultural Citizenship; Un/Belonging; Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Formation; Asians in the Americas; Chinese Diaspora Studies; Cultural Politics of Food; Ethnography

Winston Tseng

Community-initiated interventions, health care delivery, and racial/ethnic inequities of health

Weihong Bao

You-tien Hsing

Economic restructuring and local states in post-Mao China, the work of overseas Chinese capital networks, technology development in Asia's newly industrialized economies

Lanchih Po

Divergent regional economies in China, the socio-economic transformations associated with China's (sub)urbanization process, land politics and property rights reforms in China

Puck Engman

History of socialism; Social revolution; Law and State; Historical justice; Political communication; Bureaucratic process

David Johnson (Emeritus)

Premodern China; traditional Chinese popular culture

Michael Nylan

Early China: seven centuries of Warring States through Eastern Han (475 BC-AD 220) with an emphasis on the sociopolitical context; aesthetic theories and material culture; and belief

Nicolas Tackett

Chinese elite society (7th to 12th centuries), "meritocracy" / Song political culture, Northeast Asian interstate relations (10th-13th c.), frontiers, nationalism, death and death ritual, Tang capital cities

Stacey Van Vleet

History of Tibet and Inner Asia; Sino-Tibetan relations; history of science, technology, and medicine; history of religion and secularism; race and ethnicity; institutions; popular culture; manuscripts and printing; borderlands and networks; governance under imperial and national formations.

Wen-hsin Yeh

Modern China, social and cultural history

John Chuang

Technical, economic, and policy dimensions of computer networking. Focus is on economics-informed design of computer networks and distributed systems

Anna-Lee Saxenian

Current research explores how immigrant engineers and scientists have transferred technology entrepreneurship to regions in China, India, and Taiwan

Qiang Xiao

Participatory media, China and human rights

Katie Quan (Emerita)

Immigrant workers, women workers, labor in the global economy

Fang Xu

Globalization, displacement, and language endangerment; urban studies, social stratification, consumption, China studies, nationalism, and immigration

Robert C. Berring, Jr.

Chinese law, legal research

Rachel Stern

China, law, social movements and environmental issues

Mark Levine

Energy modeling; energy-efficiency policy; energy-relayed environmental impact reduction

William Wang (Emeritus)

Acoustic Phonetics, Language Engineering, Computational Linguistics and Language & Evolution

Mu-ming Poo (Emeritus)

Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the growth of nerve processes, the formation of synapses, and the modulation of early synaptic connections by electrical activity

Lester Hu

Global history of music during the early modern period—both on the time period itself, typically defined as late 1400s to early 1800s, and on its much-debated “early modern” label.

Peng Gong (Emeritus)

Integrated analysis of multisource data of the environment from census, field survey, remote sensing, and maps; uncertainties in digital map data and knowledge-based geographic information systems

Xiaohua Gong

To develop new approaches based on small molecules and gene or stem cell therapy to prevent, delay or cure age- or disease-related visual impairments

Ryan Brutger

International relations and foreign policy

Barry Eichengreen

Economic history, international economics

Kevin O'Brien

Social movements, policy implementation, reform, China

Gérard Roland

Institutions and development, culture and economics, political institutions and economic outcomes, reforms in China and North Korea

Rachel Stern

China, law, social movements and environmental issues

Steve Weber

International and national security; the impact of technology on national systems of innovation, defense, and deterrence; and the political economy of knowledge-intensive industries particularly software and pharmaceuticals

Joseph J. Campos (Emeritus)

Social-emotional development in infancy, especially emotional communication and perception of emotion; and the relation of motor development to cognitive, social and emotional development

Kaiping Peng (Emeritus)

Social; cultural psychology, reasoning and judgment across cultures and domains, dialectical logic, cognitive appraisals, inter-ethnic and racial relations

Linda Neuhauser

Participatory design of health and social programs and policies, "design science" methods for community engagement and research

Robert Spear (Emeritus)

Assessment and quantification of human exposures to toxic and hazardous agents in the environment

Winston Tseng

Community-initiated interventions, health care delivery, and racial/ethnic inequities of health

Pheng Cheah

Cultural representations of the Chinese Diaspora in South East Asia in relation to the rise of East Asian capitalism

Winnie Wong

Chinese Contemporary Art, Qing Visual Culture, and the Pearl River Delta Region

Julian Chun-Chung Chow

Community practice, service delivery, urban poverty

Thomas B. Gold (Emeritus)

Modernization and development; comparative institutions; Pacific Rim societies; China

Heather A. Haveman

Economic transition in China; organizational theory; economic sociology; historical sociology; entrepreneurship; organizational demography; gender, careers, and social mobility

Yan Long

Global and transnational sociology, contentious politics, health and medicine, international development, organizations

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

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