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

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Vinod Aggarwal

Research Interests: Political Economy of Asia

Jinsoo An

Research Interests: Korean cinema

Robert Ashmore

Research Interests: Classical Chinese literature

Maximillian Auffhammer

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

Weihong Bao

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

Andrew Barshay

Research Interests: Modern Japanese intellectual and economic history

Brian Baumann

Research Interests: Buddhist traditions in Mongolia

Mark Blum

Research Interests: Buddhist thought and culture

Pheng Cheah

Research Interests: Chinese diaspora, human rights and globalization, world literature

Julian Chun-Ching Chow

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

Renee Chow

Research Interests: Architecture and urban design in China

John Chuang

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

Lisandro Claudio

Research interests: History of the Philippinies, liberalism in Southeast Asia

Margaret Crawford

Research Interests: Chinese urbanization

Mark Csikszentmihalyi

Research Interests: Early Chinese religions, philosophies, and cultures

Jacob Dalton

Research Interests: Tibetan Buddhism

Penny Edwards

Research interests: Colonial and postcolonial studies, Buddhism, Cambodia and Burma

Barry Eichengreen

Research Interests: Economic history, international economics

Puck Engman

Puck Engman

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

Daena Funahashi

Daena Funahashi

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

Peng Gong

Research Interests: Computer recognition and analysis of the environment

Xiaohua Gong

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

Junko Habu

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

Yoko Hasegawa

Research Interests: Japanese linguistics

Heather A. Haveman

Research Interests: Economic transition in China

H. Mack Horton

Research Interests: Classical Japanese language and literature

You-tien Hsing

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

Jun Hu

Research Interest: Chinese art and architecture, Buddhist visual culture

Andrew F. Jones

Research Interests: Modern Chinese literature

Yuichiro Kamada

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

Kijoo Ko

Research Interests: Teaching Korean as a foreign language

SanSan Kwan

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

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Ling Hon Lam

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

Steven Lee

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

Andrew Way Leong

Andrew Way Leong

Research Interests: Literature of Japanese diasporas in the Americasgender & sexuality studies

Gregory P. Levine

Research Interests: Japanese art and architecture

Mark Levine

Research Interests: Energy modeling, energy-efficiency policy

I-Hao Li

Research Interests: Chinese language

John Lie

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

Li Liu

Research Interests: Chinese language

Xin Liu

Research Interests: China, social/cultural anthropology

Sanjyot Mehendale

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

Karen Nakamura

Research Interests: Visual anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking, Japan

Linda Neuhauser

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

Michael Nylan

Research Interests: Early China

Laura Nelson

Research Interests: Gender, Medicine, Politics

Kevin O'Brien

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

Daniel O'Neill

Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature

Dara O'Rourke

Research Interests: Environmental, social, and equity impacts of global production, East Asia, Thailand, Vietnam

Lanchih Po

Research Interests: Divergent regional economies in China

Katie Quan

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

Andrew Reddie

Andrew Reddie

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

Gérard Roland

Research Interests: Political economy, comparative and institutional economics, reforms in China and North Korea

David Roland-Holst

Research Interests: Economics of global warming, regional economic development in China

Miryam Sas

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

AnnaLee Saxenian

Research Interests: The exporting of information technology

Robert Sharf

Research Interests: Medieval Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism

Kevin Michael Smith

Kevin Michael Smith

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

Rachel Stern

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

Lok Siu

Research Interests: Asians in the Americas; Chinese diaspora studies

Nicolas Tackett

Research Interests: Ninth to eleventh century China

Alan Tansman

Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature

Sylvia Tiwon

Research interests: Literature, gender and cultural studies, Indonesia

Winston Tseng

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

Ken Ueno

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

Khatharya Um

Research interests: Refugee and diaspora studies, Cambodia

Stacey Van Vleet

Stacey Van Vleet

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

Paula Varsano

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

Sophie Volpp

Research Interests: Chinese literature of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries

Steven Vogel

Research Interests: Japan, comparative and international political economy

Julia White

Research Interests: Museum curatorship, contemporary and traditional Chinese arts

Christine F. Wildsoet

Research Interests: Optometry, cultural, environmental and genetic influences on myopia development, new therapies

Winnie Wong

Research Interests: Chinese contemporary art, Qing visual culture, artistic authorship and commodity production

Qiang Xiao

Research Interests: Participatory media, China and human rights

Keiko Yamanaka

Research Interests: International migration in East Asia

Wen-hsin Yeh

Research Interests: Modern China, social and cultural history

Lihua Zhang

Research Interests: Germanic, English and Chinese contrastive linguistics

Peter X. Zhou

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

Qing Zhou

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

Jonathan Zwicker

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