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SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES |
Art History |
|  Judy
Chungwa Ho, Associate Professor
Chinese art and archaeology, Buddhist art and popular religions |
 Alka Patel, Assistant Professor
South Asian art and architecture (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh), particularly Islamic cultural forms; Indian Ocean commercial and social history; historiography of South Asia and the Islamic world. |
|  Bert
Winther-Tamaki, Associate Professor
History of Modern Japanese Art and Visual Culture. Asian
American Art. History of interactions between Japanese and
American art worlds. |
East Asian Languages & Literature |
 Chungmoo
Choi, Associate Professor
Modern Korea, post-colonial and colonial discourse, popular
culture, anthropology |
 Edward
Fowler, Professor and Chair, EALL
Modern literature, cultural studies, film
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 James
Fujii, Associate Professor
Modern Japanese literature; critical theory and cultural
studies
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 Michael
A. Fuller, Associate Professor
Classical Chinese poetry and poetics, the cultural and intellectual
contexts for poetry, aesthetic theory, linguistic issues in
classical Chinese |
 Hu
Ying, Associate Professor
Premodern and modern narrative literature, translation study,
feminist theories |
 Martin
Weizong Huang, Associate Professor
Vernacular fiction and late imperial Chinese cultural and
intellectual histories |
 Kyung
Hyun Kim, Assistant Professor
Asian cinema, modern Korea, critical theory |
 Susan
B. Klein, Associate Professor and Director of Religious
Studies
Pre-Modern And Modern Theater And Dance; Medieval Commentaries;
Japanese Religions; New Historicism and Feminist Critical
Theory |
 Serk-Bae SUH, Associate Professor
My current research examines the relationship of literature to such worldly matters as the construction of a modern nation state (Japan), and the exercise and distribution of power (for example, the gathering of fascism and the articulation of imperialism) both within Japan and in its relations with neighboring countries. |
English
& Comparative Literature |
| Ackbar Abbas, Professor |
 Jonathan
M. Hall, Assistant Professor
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 R.
Radhakrishnan , Professor and Chair, Asian-American Studies
Program
Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Postcoloniality, Poststructuralism,
Nationalisms and Diasporas |
Film and Media
Studies |
Bliss
(Felicidad) Cua Lim, Assistant Professor
Fantastic Cinema, Temporality, and the Philosophy of History;
Taste Cultures; Philippine Cinema, Hong Kong Cinema, Third
World and Postcolonial Studies, Globalization and Culture,
Feminist/Queer Theory, Genre and Narrative |
History |
 Vinayak
Chaturvedi, Assistant Professor
South Asia, India, Gujarat, Agrarian Social History, Post-Colonial
Studies, Historiography |
 Yong
Chen , Associate Professor
Asian-American history; Late 19th and 20th Century American
social and cultural history; Immigration History |
 Eugene
Park, Assistant Professor
Social history of Korea, especially the military examination
system,
secondary status groups, local elites, and genealogy discourse |
 Kenneth
Pomeranz, Professor and Department Chair
Modern China |
Kathryn
Ragsdale , Lecturer
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 Anne
Walthall, Professor
Early Modern Japan; peasant culture, especially peasant
uprisings and women; Tokyo; palace women in Japan and around
the world |
 Charles
Wheeler, Assistant Professor
Southeast Asia, Viet Nam, & maritime China Cross-cultural
exchange & trans-state networks |
Program in
Women's Studies |
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 Kavita
Philip, Associate Professor
Transnational studies of science and technology; feminist
technocultures; gender, race, globalization and postcolonialism;
environmental history; and new media theory |
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SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES |
Anthropology |
 Tom
Boellstorff, Associate Professor
Contemporary Indonesia: sexuality, nationalism, globalization,
mass media, HIV/AIDS, language
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 Robert
Garfias, Professor
Ethnomusicology |
|  Susan
Greenhalgh, Professor
Contemporary China: population politics, science and
social science, gender, globalization |
 Karen
Leonard, Professor
Social history and anthropology of South Asia, especially
India and Pakistan, and Central Asia; also Asian Americans
and Muslim Americans. |
|  Kaushik
Sunder Rajan, Assistant Professor
Science and technology studies; globalization and contemporary
capitalism;
political economy; social theory; comparative ethnography
of India and US.
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 Mei
Zhan, Associate Professor
Medical anthropology, cultural and social studies of
science, anthropological studies of globalization and
transnationalism, and China studies |
Political Science |
 Keiko
Hirata, Adjunct Professor
State-society relations in Japan and East Asia; public
opinion and security policy in Japan |
 Kamal
Sadiq, Assistant Professor
Immigration and Citizenship within Developing Countries,
International Criminal Flows, Ethnic Conflict, Asian
Security, and International Relations Theory. Regional
expertise in Southeast Asia and South Asia |
 Dorothy
Solinger, Professor
Chinese domestics politics and political economy; East
Asian politics;
migration; unemployment |
 Robert
M. Uriu, Associate Professor
International Relations, International Political Economy;
international politics of East Asia, particularly Japan;
US Foreign Policy toward East Asia |
Sociology |
 David
A. Smith, Professor
World Systems Analysis, Urbanization, Development,
Comparative-Historical Sociology, Dependent Development
in East Asia |
 Yang
Su , Assistant Professor
Social Movements and Collective Action, Political
Sociology, China's Political Transition |
 Wang
Feng, Associate Professor
Comparative demographic, economic, and social processes,
social inequality in state socialisms, contemporary
Chinese society |
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SCHOOL OF THE ARTS |
 Daphne Lei , Assistant Professor, Department of Drama
Asian, Asian American, Intercultural and Postcolonial
Theatre, Ethnic, Gender and Diasporic Studies |
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SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT |
 Alladi
Venkatesh, Professor, Marketing, and Director of
National Outlook for Automation in the Home
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SCHOOL OF SOCIAL ECOLOGY |
 Victoria
Beard , Assistant Professor, Department of Planning,
Policy and Design
Community-based planning, citizen participation, collective
action, economic development; Indonesia, Southeast Asia |
 Chuan-sheng
Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
and Social Behavior
Culture, ethnicity, and adolescent development; the
role of non-parental adults in adolescent development;
culture and creativity; methodological issues in cross-cultural
research; evolution and behavioral manifestations of
dopamine receptor genes |
 Sanjoy
Mazumdar, Professor, Department of Planning, Policy,
and Design
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UCI LIBRARIES |
 Daniel
Tsang , Social Science data librarian and bibliographer
in Asian American Studies, politics
& economics
Alternative media; Vietnamese and Hong Kong film; sexual
politics; social science data archiving |
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