Brian Baumann
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Research Interest: Mongolian language, history, culture, Buddhism, and astral science |
Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures |
Adam Benkato
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Research Interests: Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, philology, Libyan Studies, archives |
Department: Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures |
Patricia Berger
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Research Interests: Chinese art; Buddhist painting; portraiture in 20th-century China & Inner Asia |
Department: History of Art |
Franck Billé
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Research Interests: Ethnicity, borders, territoriality, sovereignty, Northeast Asia |
Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, Program Director |
Sharad Chari
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Research Interests: Ocean Worlds, Globalization, Earth-writing |
Department: Geography |
Jacob Dalton
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Research Interests: Nyingma religious history; tantric ritual; paleography; Dunhuang manuscripts |
Department: East Asian Languages and Culture |
Penelope Edwards
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Research Interests: Cultural Pasts and Presents in Southeast Asia, Focus on Cambodia and Burma |
Department: South and Southeast Asian Studies |
Deniz Ekici
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Research Interests: Language variation and the role of language in nation-building process, language acquisition, cultural studies, technology in teaching and learning, sociolinguistics, identity formation, nationalism, state formation and linguistics/linguistic human rights |
Department: Center for Middle Eastern Studies |
Tom Gold
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Research Interests: Chinese civil society; entrepreneurship; modernization and development; globalization social change in Taiwan |
Department: Sociology |
Nelson Graburn
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Research Interests: Tourism, Heritage, Museums, Art, Multiculturalism in Japan, China and N. North America, Eastern Europe |
Department: Anthropology |
Jun Hu
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Research Interests: Chinese art and architecture |
Department: History of Art |
Lester Hu
Research Interests: global history of music during the so-called early modern period; popular songs, operas, tunings, and musical thoughts in Europe and East and Inner Asia and the trans-Eurasian networks of people, goods, and knowledge; developing new methodologies for comparative and global music histories. |
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Department: Music |
You-Tien Hsing
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Research Interests: Geography of development in East Asia; Economic development in China; Political development in East Asia |
Department: Geography |
Stephen Lee
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Research Interests: Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century; Comintern Modernisms; Black Internationalism; Literature and Revolution |
Department: English |
Sanjyot Mehendale
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Research Interests: Central Asian and Silk Road Art and Archeology |
Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, Chair East Asian Languages and Culture, South and South East Asian Studies, Lecturer |
Michael Nylan
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Research Interests: Han history; early intellectual history; Chinese art and archaeology |
Department: History |
Aihwa Ong
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Research Interests: Sovereignty; government; migration, citizenship; neoliberalism; biotechnology; cities; knowledge class; modern ethics contemporary publics; Southeast Asia |
Department: Anthropology |
Liladhar Pendse
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Research Interests: Central Asia, Russia, Mongolia |
Townsend Center for the Humanities, Library Fellow |
David Roland-Holst
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Research Interests: Economics of global warming; pro-poor livestock policy and highly pathogenic avian influenza; regional economic development in China |
Department: Agricultural and Resource Economics |
Robert Sharf
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Research Interests: Research interests: Buddhism; Chan and Zen; East Asian Tantra; Chinese and Japanese Religion; Theory and Method in the Study of Religion |
Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures, South and South East Asian Studies |
Yuri Slezkine
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Research interests: Russian and Soviet history |
Department: History |
Stacey Van Vleet
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Research Interests: Tibet, Inner Asia, Buddhism, historiography, medicine |
Department: History |
Jason Vivrette
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Research Interests: Turkish language pedagogy, Middle Eastern cinema, translation studies, and literature produced in various intercultural contact zones at the limits of Turkish influence |
Department: Center for Middle Eastern Studies |