SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES

Art History

Michael Ming-Chieh Lee

Asian Art History

 

East Asian Languages & Literature

Michihiro Ama

Concentration in Japanese

Kenneth Berthel

Concentration in Chinese

David Cannell, Ph.D. candidate

Concentration in Japanese

Tieniu Cheng

Concentration in Chinese

Steven Chung

Concentration in East Asian

Christine Cowgill

Concentration in Japanese

Michael P. Cronin

Concentration in Japanese, particularly on modern Japanese literature and film

Li Han

Concentration in Chinese literature

LeRon Harrison

Concentration in Japanese

Zheng Huili

Concentration in Chinese

Masako Ikenushi

Concentration in Japanese literature (on leave)

Kota Inoue, Ph.D.

Concentration in Japanese

Hsin-chieh Li

Concentration in Chinese literature

Yuan Liu

Concentration in Chinese

Jennifer Yawey Maldonado

Concentration in Chinese

Mayumi Manabe

Concentration in Japanese

Michelle Mason, Ph.D. candidate

Cncentration in Japanese

Jennifer Mertens, Ph.D. candidate

Concentration in Japanese

Kazuko Osada

Concentration in modern Japanese literature

Jesse Dalton Palmer

Concentration in Japanese

Zhen Zhang, Ph.D. candidate

Concentration in East Asia

 

History

Nicole Barnes

20th century China; social and cultural history of medicine during WWII;
women's and gender history.

Christina Ghanbarpour

Japanese village women and transitions in village life from 1890-1960

Jennifer Liu

Guomindang Policy on Secondary Education in China from 1937-1949 and Taiwan from 1945-1960

Kate Merkel-Hess

Modern China, particularly social and cultural history of the Republican Period

Neha Vora

Gender, class and cultural identity among the South Asian diaspora in the Persian Gulf; the gold industry in Dubai, UAE; and cosmopolitanism, trade and colonialism in the Indian Ocean region

Michael Wert, Ph.D. candidate

Local history and historical memory of the Meiji Restoration in modern Japan. Currently visiting instructor at Oberlin College

 

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Anthropology

Nanao Akanuma

Transnationalism, the cultural politics of globalization, Japanese popular culture and capitalism, sport, and gender; Japan and Mongolia.

Allison Fish

Anthropology of law and politics, law and society, and free/open access to informatin. Substantive Interests: Individual and collective claims to intellectual property rights in traditional knonwledges and cultural practices, transnational commercial yoga.

Sylvia J. Martin

Transnationalism, media, post-colonialism, and religion; Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Janaki Natalie Parikh

The role of women in the southern California fire service, particularly looking at the way in which they are incorporated into a traditionally all-male occupation

Robert Phillip

Nationalism and violence, communal politics, anthropology of religion, sexual minorities in contemporary South Asia, India

Lien Vu

Visual anthropology, film, transnationalism, public policy, identity politics, Viet Nam, youth culture

Political Science

Katie Appenrodt

Comparative Politics, Chinese politics

Chih-Chieh (Titus) Chen

Political culture, institutionalism, international relations theory, East Asian/Pacific Rim studies, Eurasia studies

William Chiu

Hsin-yeh Hsieh

East Asian Politics, Democratization, International Political Economy

Jason C. Hsu

Political Theory, Political Psychology

Willy Jou

Jiyoung Kim

Comparative Politics, Korea and globalization

Colin Moore

International Relations, Korea-US relations

Nhu-Ngoc Ong

Comparative Politics, Ethnic Politics, Democratization in Asia, Political Attitudes

Maria Van Meter

Comparative Politics, International Relations, Security Issues

 

Sociology

Wai Kit Choi
Theory, Development, World-Systems

Ting Jiang

Globalization, social welfare, social movement, democratization

Yuki Kato
Suburbs, Globalization, Youth Culture
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Charles Vincent Morgan

Ethnicity and Race (ethnic identity), Japanese Society (Burakumin), Intermarriage
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Karen Robinson

Culture, Social Theory, Globalization; South Korea

 


 

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL ECOLOGY

 

Planning, Policy and Design

 

Urban and regional planning, public management, Indonesia, Singapore, and the enactment of reformasi in Indonesia by public managers in local government institutions

 

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