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Joel Andreas
Program Director
Professor, Sociology
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- Mergenthaler 554
- 410-516-7325
Research Interests: Political contention, social inequality, and social change in contemporary China
Education: PhD, UCLA
Giovanna Maria Dora Dore
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director, East Asian Studies
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- Mergenthaler 246
Research Interests: Comparative politics, democratic legitimacy, authoritarian legacies, computational social science, East and Southeast Asia
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Yuen Yuen Ang
Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy, SNF Agora Institute and Political Science
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- Telecommuting
Research Interests: Political economy, development and innovation, adaptive governance, complex systems, China
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Wonjung Bae
Lecturer, Film and Media Studies
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- Film Center - Suite 204
Research Interests: Impact Storytelling; Realism; Direct Cinema; International Co-Production
Education: MFA, Columbia College Chicago
Rebecca M. Brown
Professor, History of Art
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- Gilman 182
- 410-516-0345
Research Interests: Politics and modernity in the visual culture of South Asia from the 18th century to the present; the art of East, Southeast, and South Asia since antiquity
Education: PhD, University of Minnesota
Kent Calder
Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, SAIS
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Research Interests: Japan, northeast Asia, energy issues, energy and security, international political economy, strategic and security issues
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Feinian Chen
Research Professor, Sociology
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- Mergenthaler 533
Research Interests: Demography, family and life course, aging, research methods and statistics, gender and inequality
Education: PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Erin Chung
Charles D. Miller Professor of East Asian Politics, Political Science
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- Mergenthaler 365
- 410-516-4496
Research Interests: Politics of East Asia, with particular interests in citizenship, immigration, and civil society in Japan and South Korea
Education: PhD, Northwestern University
Johaina Katinka Crisostomo
Assistant Professor, English
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- Greenhouse 117
Research Interests: Asian/Asian American literatures, Latinx/Latinx American literatures, political philosophy, religion, comparative empire studies
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Nan Z. Da
Associate Professor, English
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- Gilman 13
Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century American And Trans-Atlantic Literature And Letters, Modern Chinese Literature And Letters, Literary And Social Theory, The Intersection Of Literary Studies And The Data Sciences
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Yulia Frumer
Bo Jung and Soon Young Kim Professorship of East Asian Science
Associate Professor, History of Science and Technology
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- Gilman 380
- 410-516-7507
Research Interests: East Asian science and technology
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Clara Han
Professor, Anthropology
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- Mergenthaler 463
- 410-516-2864
Research Interests: Poverty, disease and illness, care and violence
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Lingxin Hao
Professor, Sociology
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- Mergenthaler 509
- 410-516-4022
Research Interests: Rural-to-urban migration and its impact on social inequality in China
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Satoru Hashimoto
Assistant Professor, Comparative Thought and Literature
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- 410-516-7619
Research Interests: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literatures and cultures; modernities and modernisms; comparative literature, aesthetics, and intellectual history; aesthetics and justice; post-secularism; world literature
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Stefan Henning
Lecturer, East Asian Studies
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- Mergenthaler 248
Research Interests: Century Chinese History, Anthropology of Muslim Societies, and Religious Activism
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Ho-fung Hung
Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy, Sociology and SAIS
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- Mergenthaler 523
- 410-516-7051
Research Interests: Capitalist development, state formation, and protest in China and Asia at large from global and long-term historical perspectives
Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Lijing Jiang
Assistant Professor, History of Science and Technology
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- Gilman 367
- (410)516-7505
Research Interests: History of biology and biotechnology; history of food and the environment; twentieth-century China and Asia
Education: PhD, Arizona State University
Jin Jiang
Yeung Family Distinguished Visiting Professor, East Asian Studies
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- Mergenthaler 242
Research Interests: The intersection of women and gender, popular culture, and Shanghai history
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Yuki Johnson
Director, Center for Language Education
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- Krieger 509
Education: PhD, University of Minnesota
Hayang “Yumi” Kim
Assistant Professor, History
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- Gilman 330A
- 410-516-7575
Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-century Japan and Korea; medicine and religion; folk culture; colonialism; history of women and gender
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Sujung Kim
Associate Professor
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- Mergenthaler 459
Research Interests: East Asian Buddhism, folk religion, everyday life, ritual, mythology, medicine, material culture, gender, sensory experience
Education: PhD, Columbia University
Huei-Ying Kuo
Senior Lecturer, Sociology
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- Mergenthaler 533
- 410-516-6493
Research Interests: Chinese diasporic business networks, Japanese and British imperialism, as well as Chinese nationalism in East and Southeast Asia
Education: PhD, SUNY-Binghamton
Lan A. Li
Assistant Professor, History of Medicine, School of Medicine
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- Gilman 369A-B and Welch Institute of the History of Medicine 322
Research Interests: History of East Asian medicine; global Chinese medicine; histories of neuroscience; postcolonial science studies; race and racism in health care access
Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mia Yinxing Liu
Assistant Professor, History of Art
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- Gilman 184
- 410-516-0554
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Chinese art and media culture
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Glory M. Liu
Assistant Director, Center for Economy and Society, SNF Agora Institute
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Research Interests: Political thought and intellectual history, American politics, political economy, the normative and empirical study of economic inequality, economic ideas in political debate, feminist political economy, and Asian American history and politics
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Andrew Mertha
George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, SAIS and Director of the SAIS China Studies Program
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Research Interests: Bureaucracy, institutions, Leninist party systems, policy making and implementation, US-China Relations, Sino-Khmer relations
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Tobie Meyer-Fong
Professor, History
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- Gilman 330C
Research Interests: History of late imperial and modern China, with particular focus on issues of conflict, commemoration, and literary culture
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Sharlyn Rhee
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Studies
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- Mergenthaler 258
Research Interests: Comparative literature, Korean and German films and cultures, Asian American literature, Poetics
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
William T. Rowe
John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History
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- Gilman 324
- 410-516-7580
Research Interests: Modern East Asia, especially socioeconomic, urban history
Education: PhD, Columbia University
John Yasuda
Assistant Professor, Political Science
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- Mergenthaler 363
- 410-516-7540
Research Interests: Regulatory governance, bureaucratic politics, and comparative political economy in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
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Victoria Cass
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Research Interests: Religion and myth, storytelling and popular culture, and women's history of China
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Gaochao He
Visiting Scholar
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- Mergenthaler 242
Research Interests: Social transformation, labor politics, and the changing labor relations among the state, trade union, managers and workers in China.
Education: PhD, Political Science, University of Chicago
Marvin Ott
Professorial Lecturer and Visiting Scholar, SAIS
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- 202-663-5815
Research Interests: Southeast Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific; intelligence production and oversight; U.S. foreign and security policy
Education: PhD, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
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Aissata S Diallo
Administrative Manager
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- Jenkins 200
- 6672088688
Education: MBA