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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 Program
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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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Research Interests: Political economy, development and innovation, adaptive governance, complex systems, China
Education: PhD, Stanford University

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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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

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

Yuki Johnson
Director, Center for Language Education
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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

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

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
affiliated faculty

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