IEAS Faculty by Department | Institute of East Asian Studies

Nearly 100 faculty members at UC Berkeley specialize in topics related to East Asia.

By Department | By Last Name

DEPARTMENT

Maximillian Auffhammer

Research Interests: China, climate change, China's role in reducing greenhouse gases

David Roland-Holst

Economics of Global Warming, Regional Economic Development in China

Daena Funahashi

Research interests: Cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, sacrifice, addiction, Southeast Asia (Thailand), Nordic welfare (Finland)

Junko Habu

Research Interests: Prehistory of Japan, hunter-gatherer subsistence and settlement

Xin Liu

Research Interests: China, social/cultural anthropology

Karen Nakamura

Research Interests: Visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking, Japan

Aihwa Ong

Research Interests: South China, Southeast Asia, cities, modes of governance; science, technology & medicine

Renee Chow

Research Interests: Architecture and urban design in China

Margaret Crawford

Research Interests: Chinese urbanization

Gregory P. Levine

Research Interests: Japanese art and architecture

Jun Hu

Research Interests: Chinese art and architecture, Buddhist visual culture

Julia White

Research Interests: Contemporary and traditional Chinese arts

Yuichiro Kamada

Research Interests: Revision games, solution concepts for games, search, social networks, market design, communication, political economy

Noam Yuchtman

Research Interests: Political economy and economic history of educational institutions, legal institutions, labor markets, and social interactions

Peter X. Zhou

Research Interests: East Asian historical records, information management, library history, Chinese linguistics

Miryam Sas

Research Interests: Japanese, French, and English literature and thought

Sophie Volpp

Research Interests: Chinese literature of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries

Robert Ashmore

Research Interests: Classical Chinese literature

Weihong Bao

Research Interests: Chinese film and media culture from nineteenth century to present

Brian Baumann

Research Interests: Mongolian verse treatise on salvation in Sa skya pa tradition

Mark Blum

Research Interests: Buddhist thought and culture

Mark Csikszentmihalyi

Research Interests: Early Chinese religions, philosophies, and cultures

Yoko Hasegawa

Research Interests: Japanese linguistics

H. Mack Horton

Research Interests: Classical Japanese language and literature

Andrew F. Jones

Research Interests: Modern Chinese literature

Kijoo Ko

Research Interests: Teaching Korean as a foreign language

Ling Hon Lam

Research Interests: 16th-19th century Chinese literature, early Chinese theater

Sanjyot Mehendale

Research Interests: Trade and cultural exchange of the early Common Era

Daniel O'Neill

Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature

Lanchih Po

Research Interests: Divergent regional economies in China

Robert Sharf

Research Interests: Medieval Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism

Kevin Michael Smith

Research Interests: Modern Korean literature and culture with emphasis on poetry and poetics

Alan Tansman

Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature

Paula Varsano

Research Interests: Classical Chinese poetry and poetics from the third through the eleventh centuries

Lihua Zhang

Research Interests: Germanic, English and Chinese contrastive linguistics

Jonathan Zwicker

Research Interests: Literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan

Barry Eichengreen

Research Interests: Economic history, international economics

Gérard Roland

Research Interests: Political Economics, Comparative and Institutional Economics, Reforms in China and North Korea

Steven Lee

Research Interests: Comparative ethnic studies, the Korean diaspora in the U.S. and former Soviet Union

Andrew Way Leong

Research Interests: Literature of Japanese diasporas in the Americas; gender & sexuality studies

Peng Gong

Research Interests: Computer recognition and analysis of the environment

Dara O'Rourke

Research Interests: Environmental, social, and equity impacts of global production

Lok Siu

Research Interests: Asians in the Americas; Chinese diaspora studies

Winston Tseng

Research Interests: Medical sociology and extensive community-based participatory research experience with diverse and vulnerable populations

Keiko Yamanaka

Research Interests: International migration in East Asia

Weihong Bao

Research Interests: Chinese film and media culture from late nineteenth century to present

Miryam Sas

Research Interests: Japanese, French, and English literature and thought

Laura Nelson

Research Interests: Gender, Medicine, Politics

You-tien Hsing

Research Interests: Post-Mao China, newly industrialized economies in Asia

Andrew Barshay

Research Interests: Modern Japanese intellectual and economic history

Mary Elizabeth Berry

Research Interests: Japan, Kyoto during the sengoku period, the Confucian family orientation

Puck Engman

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

Nicolas Tackett

Research Interests: Ninth to eleventh century China

Stacey Van Vleet

Research Interests: History of Tibet and Inner Asia; Sino-Tibetan relations

Wen-hsin Yeh

Research Interests: Modern China, social and cultural history

John Chuang

Research Interests: Technical, economic, and policy dimensions of computer networking

Andrew Reddie

Research interests: China-US relations; strategic competition; emerging technologies; middle powers

AnnaLee Saxenian

Research Interests: The exporting of information technology

Qiang Xiao

Research Interests: Participatory media, China and human rights

Katie Quan

Research Interests: Immigrant workers, women workers, labor in the global economy

Lanchih Po

Research Interests: Divergent regional economies in China

Keiko Yamanaka

Research Interests: International migration in East Asia

Robert C. Berring Jr.

Research Interests: Chinese law, legal research

Rachel Stern

Research Interests: China, law, social movements and environmental issues

Mark Levine

Research Interests: Energy modeling, energy-efficiency policy

Ken Ueno

Research Interests: Extended Vocal Techniques, Non-Western Instruments, Microtonality

Xiaohua Gong

Research Interests: New approaches to visual impairments and the causes for blindness

Christine F. Wildsoet

Research Interests: From bench to chair side — translating cultural, environmental and genetic influences on myopia development and progression into novel therapies.

Vinod Aggarwal

Research Interests: Political Economy of Asia

Lowell Dittmer

Research Interests: China, North and East Asian governments and politics

Barry Eichengreen

Research Interests: Economic history, international economics

Taeku Lee

Research Interests: Racial politics, public opinion, political behavior, social movements, Asian American politics

Kevin O'Brien

Research Interests: China, social movements, policy implementation, reform

Gerard Roland

Research Interests: Reforms in China and North Korea

Rachel Stern

Research Interests: China, law, social movements and environmental issues

Steven Vogel

Research Interests: Japan, comparative and international political economy

Eleanor H. Rosch

Research Interests: Cognition, concepts, causality, cross-cultural, Eastern psychologies, psychologies of religion

Qing Zhou

Research Interests: Cultural influences on socio-emotional development, with a particular interest in Chinese and Chinese American populations

Linda Neuhauser

Research Interests: Participatory design of health and social programs and policies

Winston Tseng

Research Interests: Medical sociology and extensive community-based participatory research experience with diverse and vulnerable populations

Pheng Cheah

Research Interests: Chinese diaspora, East Asian capitalism

Winnie Wong

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

Julian Chun-Ching Chow

Research Interests: Chinese migrant communities, service delivery, urban poverty

Thomas B. Gold

Research Interests: Chinese civil society, entrepreneurship, development

Heather A. Haveman

Research Interests: Economic transition in China

John Lie

Research Interests: Korean diaspora, Japanese, social theory, political economy

Research Interests: Critical dance studies; transnational Asian American studies; cultural geography; theories of space and kinesthesia, interculturalism, modern dance, ballet, and yoga; theories of Chineseness

DEPARTMENT

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Anthropology

Architecture

Art History

Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive

Business Administration

C.V. Starr East Asian Library

Comparative Literature

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Economics

English

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Ethnic Studies

Film and Media

Gender and Women's Studies

Geography

History

Information Management and Systems

Industrial Relations

International and Area Studies

Law

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Music

Optometry

Political Science

Psychology

Public Health

Rhetoric

Social Welfare

Sociology

Theater Dance & Performance Studies