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The East Asian Studies Center is composed of full members, faculty emeriti, and associate members.

Full members are Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures faculty and other IU faculty with substantial teaching and research interest in East Asia. In consultation with the university administration, full members determine the program objectives of the center, select center directors, and elect the executive committee.

Associate members are faculty at other institutions in the central Midwest region with regular teaching interests in East Asia or other scholars and professionals with strong interests in East Asia.

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Hannah Airriess

Assistant Professor, EALC

Education:: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Research Areas:: Japanese Film and Media, Labor & Management Theory, Media Theory

Yasuko Akiyama

Senior Lecturer, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of Iowa
Research Areas:: Japanese Language, second language writing, culture learning, translation

Arthur S. Alderson

Professor, Sociology

Education:: Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill
Research Areas:: Social inequality

Allen Anderson

Professor Emeritus, IU South Bend, Criminal Justice

Education:: Ph.D., Southern Illinois University
Research Areas:: HIV/AIDS in China; HIV/AIDS policy in United States; criminal process in China.

Soo Min Bae

Past Program Assistant / Intern, East Asian Studies Center

Wan-Ning Bao

Professor Emerita, Sociology

Education:: Ph.D., Iowa State University
Research Areas:: International and comparative criminology; crime and delinquency in China

Yingling Bao

Interim Chinese Language Coordinator, Senior Lecturer, EALC

Education:: M.A., Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Research Areas:: Chinese pedagogy; cognitive linguistics; sociolinguistics

Simone Bassett

Past Special Media Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Christopher I Beckwith

Distinguished Professor, Central Eurasian Studies

Education:: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas:: Old Chinese reconstruction; Mandarin grammar; Japanese grammar; Old Tibetan; Koguryo language; comparative-historical and typological linguistics of East Asian languages; Central Eurasian linguistics and premodern history; early transmission of Buddhism from Central Asia to East Asia

Heather Blair

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

Education:: Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas:: Religious cultures of Japan, Heian-period history, lay religiosity, religious landscapes, and textual practices.

Gardner Bovingdon

Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Areas:: Comparative and Chinese politics; political economy; ethnic politics; qualitative research methodologies

Michael Brose

Academic Specialist, Central Eurasian Studies

Education:: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research Areas:: Chinese history and society, Mongol China social history, Islam in Southwest China

Russell Burge

Assistant Professor, EALC

Education:: Ph.D. Stanford University
Research Areas:: Korean History and Society, Urban History, Development and Social Change in East Asia, Politics of Memory

William Carroll

Visiting Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Education:: Ph.D., The University of Chicago

Ian Carstens

Past Office Services Coordinator, East Asian Studies Center

Kyungah Chae

Past Intern

Michael Chambers

Professor, Indiana State University, Political Science

Education:: Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Areas:: International relations; comparative politics; Asian politics.

Lucas Chang

Past Grants Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Yea Fen Chen

Director, Chinese Flagship Center; Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas:: Foreign language pedagogy, foreign language learning strategies, second language acquisition, heritage language learners, technology assisted learning/teaching and distance learning/teaching

Xiaoqing Diana Chen-Lin

Professor, IU Northwest, History and Philosophy

Education:: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas:: History of China and modern East Asia

Ian Cheong

Intern, East Asian Studies Center

Hangbum Cho

Professor, Department of Korean Language and Literature, Chungbuk National University

Research Areas:: A Comparative and Contrastive Study of Korean and American Place Names

Hohsung Choe

, EASC

Education:: Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington
Research Areas:: L2 Learner and Teacher Identity, Heritage Language Education

Sheena Choi

Associate Professor, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Management and Marketing

Education:: Ph.D., State University of New York
Research Areas:: Comparative and international education, Korean education, sociology of education.

Jillian Clark

Program Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Scott Clark

Emeritus, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Anthropology

Education:: Ph.D., University of Oregon
Research Areas:: Japanese society; engineering ethics in Japan.

Joseph Coleman

Professor of Practice, Journalism

Education:: M.I.A., Columbia University
Research Areas:: International reporting and newswriting; reporting on East Asia; Aging workers in Japan, US and Europe

Laurel L. Cornell

Emeritus, Gender Studies, EALC, Sociology, Gender studies

Stephanie DeBoer

Assistant Professor, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Communication and Culture, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of Southern California
Research Areas:: Japanese and Chinese language film, television, and new media; inter-Asia cultural studies; critical approaches to digital media in the context of globalization; multimedia scholarship; theories of space, place, and mobility

Marc Dollinger

Emeritus, Business

Education:: Ph.D., Lehigh University
Research Areas:: Chinese management practices; value of a good reputation; minority business enterprise; development of cooperative strategies in fragmented industries.

Elise Marie Edwards

Associate Professor, Butler University, History and Anthropology

Education:: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas:: Sport and Japanese modernity; women’s history; gender and sexuality in Asia; Japanese mass/popular culture

Jurgis Elisonas

Former Chair and Professor Emeritus, EALC; Professor Emeritus, EALC, History

Education:: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas:: Pre-modern Japanese history; Japan’s international relations.

Robert Eno

Emeritus, EALC, Philosophy

Education:: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas:: Chinese philosophy; early Chinese history.

Eugene C. Eoyang

Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas:: Chinese literature; Chinese-Western literary relations; theory of translation

John Finch

Lecturer, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., City University of New York
Research Areas:: Korean ethnography, family, migration, education, cinema

Brian Flaherty

Assistant Director, Center for Chinese Language Pedagogy

Education:: M.A., Indiana University
Research Areas:: East Asian philosophy, religion, and martial arts; Chinese language pedagogy

Michael Dylan Foster

Professor, UC Davis, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Education:: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Areas:: Japanese folklore, literature, and film, monster and supernatural studies, legend, popular culture, ritual and festival, tourism.

Sara Friedman

Professor, Anthropology, Gender Studies, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Areas:: Gender and sexuality; migration and citizenship; marriage; kinship and reproductive politics; law; ethnicity; China and Taiwan

Fatih Gok

Past Outreach Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Jennifer Goodlander

Assistant Professor, Theatre and Drama

Education:: Ph.D., Ohio University
Research Areas:: Performing traditions of SE Asia, especially shadow puppetry; Japanese performing arts: noh, kyogen, kabuki, taiko; Asian performance as it intersects with gender studies, ethnography, performance studies, postcolonial theory, visual culture studies

Robert M. Goodman

Emeritus, Public Health

Education:: Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Research Areas:: Global health; cross-cultural competence; East Asian public health approaches.

Yoshiko Okada Green

Senior Lecturer, IU South Bend, World Language Studies

Education:: M.S., Indiana University, South Bend
Research Areas:: Japanese

Charles Greer

Professor Emeritus, Geography

Education:: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas:: East Asian cultural and environmental geography; resource management and environment in China

Timothy Grose

Assistant Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Education:: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas:: Ethnic Minority Education in China; Uyghur Ethno-nationalism, Ethnic Policy in China

Yoon Hae Ha

Deputy General Manager of Political Division, Kukmin Daily News

Research Areas:: Solutions for North Korea to drop the nuclear program, Korea-America policies against North Korea

Rick Harbaugh

Associate Professor, Business

Education:: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research Areas:: Chinese economy; economics of communication; Chinese characters; Internet economy

Jeffrey Hart

Professor Emeritus, Political Science

Education:: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Areas:: International politics; international political economy; politics of competition in high technology industries; politics and film.

Sally A. Hastings

Professor Emerita, Purdue University, History

Education:: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas:: Modern Japan; Japanese women’s issues.

Joseph L. Hoffmann

Professor Emeritus, Law

Education:: J.D., University of Washington
Research Areas:: Criminal law; Japanese law and society

Hilary Holbrow

Assistant Professor, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Areas:: Social and Economic Inequality, Immigration, Work and Organizations

Mercedes Hollett

Past Office Services Coordinator, East Asian Studies Center

Daniel Hsieh

Associate Professor, Purdue University, Chinese

Education:: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas:: Chinese Language, Chinese Literature, Chinese Poetry, Redology

Xiaoyang Huang

Ph.D. candidate, Zhejiang University

Research Areas:: Cognitive Processes Involved in EFL Reading

Michael Ing

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Education:: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas:: Confucianism; Ritual Theory; Religious Ethics; Theories of Religion; Chinese Thought

Yoshio Iwamoto

Former Chair, Professor Emeritus, EALC, Comparative Literature

Education:: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas:: Modern Japanese language, literature and culture; Japanese-Western literary relations; Japanese cinema; relationship between literature and politics

Roger L. Janelli

Professor Emeritus, Folklore and Ethnomusicology

Education:: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research Areas:: Korean culture and social organization; East Asian ethnography; religion and political economy.

Hyunjeong (Chloe) Jeong

Past Intern, East Asian Studies Center

Weejeong Jeong

Lecturer, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington
Research Areas:: Korean language and linguistics; academic literacy development; language assessment; language pedagogy; L2 writing; bilingual/multilingual literacy

Sumie A. Jones

Professor Emerita,Resident Fellow, EALC, Comparative Literature, Institute for Advanced Study

Education:: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas:: Literary theory and semiotics; 18th and 19th century literature and arts, East and West; Japanese culture of the Edo and Meiji periods.

Laura Judson

Assistant Director, East Asian Studies Center

Heejoon Kang

Professor Emeritus, Business

Education:: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas:: Business economics and public policy; Korean economic policies.

Hye-Seung “Theresa” Kang

Past Associate Director, East Asian Studies Center

Education:: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ; M.A., Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research Areas:: International Human Resource Development; Organizational Development; Cross-Cultural Adjustment of Corporate Expatriates; Meaning of Work; Japanese Studies (culture, comparative literature, and movies)

Gregory J. Kasza

Professor Emeritus, EALC, Political Science

Education:: Ph.D., Yale University
Research Areas:: Modern Japanese politics and business; Japanese social institutions and mass media

Margaret Key

Chief of Staff, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs

Education:: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas:: Modern Japanese literature.

Hafsah Khan

Past Intern, East Asian Studies Center

Byel Kim

Intern, East Asian Studies Center

Byung Dae Kim

Head, Humanitarian Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Unification, Republic of Korea

Eun Kyeong (Edie) Kim

Past Intern, East Asian Studies Center

Ho Kim

Associate Professor Dept. of Chinese Language and Literature, Sungkyungkwan University

Jinki Kim

Professor, Division of International and Area Studies, Pukyong National University

Research Areas:: Japanese Political Economy

Jiyoung Kim

Senior Lecturer, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Research Areas:: Korean language and linguistics, Korean language pedagogy, Second language acquisition

Nam Young Kim

Staff, Republic of Korea Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism

Research Areas:: Policies for revitalizing local communities through arts and culture.

Seung-Kyung Kim

Korea Foundation Professor; Director of Institute for Korean Studies, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., City University of New York
Research Areas:: Gender and Labor Politics, Social Movements, Feminist Theory, and Women in East Asia and Asian America; Transnational Migration, Education, and the Family

Susam Kim

Director, Republic of Korea Ministry of National Defense

Research Areas:: A variety of range of bilateral/international cooperation during UN PKO, HA and/or DR

Yoshihisa Kitagawa

Professor Emeritus, Linguistics

Education:: Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
Research Areas:: Japanese linguistics; comparative syntax; interaction of morphology and syntax; syntax-semantics mapping; Interaction among prosody, syntax and semantics/pragmatics

Keiko Kuriyama

Director, Program of Japanese Studies ; Clinical Associate Professor in Japanese, Department of World Languages and Cultures IUPUI, World Languages and Cultures

Education:: Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Research Areas:: Japanese linguistics; Japanese language and pedagogy; second language acquisition

Elizabeth Lawrence

Assistant Professor, Augustana College, History

Education:: Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Areas:: Modern Chinese history, museums and collections, social networks, antiquarianism and STS, visual and material culture

Brian Lee

Past Outreach Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Hazel Lee

Past Office Services Coordinator, East Asian Studies Center

Hyo Sang Lee

Associate Professor, Korean Language Program Coordinator, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research Areas:: Korean language and linguistics; comparative study of East Asian languages; discourse-pragmatic and cognitive approach to grammar

Lily Lee

Past Outreach Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Wendy Leutert

Assistant Professor, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Areas:: Chinese political economy, leadership in China's public sector, China’s early reform and opening, corporate governance in state-owned enterprises, and international investment and trade

Dan Li

Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship

Education:: Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Research Areas:: Management of multinational enterprises; international strategic alliances; internationalization process

Adam P. Liff

Associate Professor, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Princeton University
Research Areas:: International security affairs; East Asian international relations; Japan's foreign policy; China's foreign policy; U.S. policy toward the Asia-Pacific region

Xiaoying Liles

Senior Lecturer, Chinese, EALC

Education:: University of Iowa
Research Areas:: Chinese linguistics Sentence processing East Asian psycholinguistics Experimental linguistics, corpus linguistics Linguistic anthropology

Charles Chien-Jer Lin

Associate Professor, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Research Areas:: Psycholinguistics, Chinese linguistics, sentence processing, linguistic anthropology

Hsien-Chang Lin

Associate Professor, Public Health

Education:: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas:: Global health; public health and healthcare systems in East Asian countries; mental health policy; obesity; chronic diseases; medication utilization; health outcomes research; pharmacoepidemiology

Wen-ling Diana Liu

Librarian, East Asian Studies and Tibetan Collection, Herman B Wells Library, East Asian Collection

Education:: M.L.S., Indiana University
Research Areas:: China and Japan

Xiaoqing Liu

Assistant Professor, Butler University, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Education:: Ph.D., University of South Carolina
Research Areas:: Modern Chinese literature; comparative literature; translation studies.

Jamie Lui

Past Intern

Manling Luo

Associate Professor, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Research Areas:: Pre-modern Chinese narratives; Chinese literati culture; traditional Chinese literature; women and gender studies

Antonina Luszczykiewicz

Assistant professor, Institute of the Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University

Research Areas:: political and cultural history of China, India, and China-India relations

Xiang Lyu

Lecturer, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Areas:: Chinese Language Pedagogy, Chinese Linguistics, Prosodic Phonology, Chinese Dialectology

Andrae M. Marak

Chairperson, Governors State University, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences

Education:: Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Research Areas:: International Political Economy, Transnational Crime, Gender, Social Construction of Identity

Misako Matsubara

Senior Lecturer, EALC

Education:: M.A., Indiana State University, Michigan State University
Research Areas:: Japanese pedagogy; language variation and change; gender and language

Andrea Lee McElderry

Professor Emerita, University of Louisville, History

Education:: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas:: Chinese business history

Alexus McLeod

Professor, Religious Studies

Education:: Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2009
Research Areas:: early Chinese Philosophy, global synthesis in early China, global philosophical methodologies

Dakotah Meadows

Graduate Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Ethan Michelson

Associate Professor, Department Chair, Sociology, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas:: Chinese society; law and society; work; occupations and professions; development

Perry Miller

Past NCTA Culture Writer, East Asian Studies Center

Mark Minton

Professor of Practice, EALC

Education:: M.A., Yale University
Research Areas:: International diplomacy

Melissa Montes

Past Intern

Osamu James Nakagawa

Distinguished Professor, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design

Education:: M.F.A., University of Houston
Research Areas:: International photography

Susan Nelson

Former Chair and Professor Emerita, EALC, Fine Arts

Education:: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas:: East Asian art history; Chinese painting.

Adam Noffsinger

Program Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Yuri Obata

Associate Professor, Communication Arts

Education:: Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
Research Areas:: Mass communication theories; mass communication law and ethics; Comparative media studies, including mass media and popular culture in Japan, North Korea, Bhutan, China

Joshua Owens

Past Intern

Morten Oxenboell

Director, East Asian Studies Center

Education:: Ph.D., University of Copenhagen
Research Areas:: Premodern Japanese history; global medievalisms; violence and conflict; weak states; martial suicides; banditry

Scott O’Bryan

Associate Professor, EALC, History

Education:: Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Areas:: Twentieth-century Japanese history; consumption and consumer culture; environmental history; urban history; history of visual culture

Celine Park

Past Intern

Namhee Park

Director, Cyber Policy Division, Ministry of National Defense, Republic of Korea

Taemin Kim Park

Associate Librarian, Library Technical Services

Education:: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas:: Korean literature; information retrieval; information storage.

Youngwook Park

Director, Bureau of Statutory Interpretation and Information, Ministry of Government Legislation, Republic of Korea

Harold Pepinsky

Professor Emeritus, Criminal Justice

Education:: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; J.D., Harvard University
Research Areas:: Alternative control systems; Chinese criminal justice; law and social control in China.

Anita Ren

Ph.D Student, Beijing Normal University, China Scholarship Council Fellow

Research Areas:: History of U.S. Higher Education

Shawn Reynolds

Associate Vice President for International Affairs, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs

Education:: M.A., Indiana University
Research Areas:: University administration; East Asian trade.

Timothy S. Rich

Professor, Western Kentucky University Political Science

Education:: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas:: Electoral politics in Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan;cross-strait relations, North Korean politics, China-Africa relations

Rowland Ricketts

Associate Dean ; Professor, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design

Education:: M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art
Research Areas:: Japanese indigo production; natural dyes

Michael Robinson

Professor Emeritus, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas:: Intellectual and cultural history of modern Korea; Japanese colonialism; popular culture; transnational studies.

Britt Rogers

Past Program Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

James Romano

Past Program Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Anthony Ross

Past Outreach Coordinator, East Asian Studies Center

William "Bill" Rozycki

Outreach Coordinator, East Asian Studies Center

Richard Rubinger

Professor Emeritus, Adjunct Professor, EALC, History, Education

Education:: Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Areas:: Japanese history and society; education and literacy.

CedarBough Saeji

Assistant Professor, Pusan National University, Department of Global Studies

Education:: Ph.D., UCLA
Research Areas:: Gender in traditional mask dance drama ; sexual objectification in televised music shows; preservation of shamanic rituals, racialization in Korean hip-hop; training programs for young performers of the traditional arts ; regimes of value created by museum curation of Buddhist art; challenges faced by the field of Korean Studies ; mental health, suicide, and popular music

Rajagopal Sankaranarayanan

Past Outreach Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Edith L. Sarra

Associate Professor Emerita, EALC, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies

Education:: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas:: Japanese language; classical Japanese literature; feminist literary theory

Jonathan Schlesinger

Associate Professor, History

Education:: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas:: Environmental history; consumption and commodities; race and ethnicity; comparative empires; early modernity; China and Inner Asia

William H. Schneider

Professor Emeritus, History

Education:: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research Areas:: French history; history of science and medicine, and twentieth-century Europe; global health

Eiji Sekine

Emeriti Faculty, Purdue University Languages and Cultures

Education:: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas:: Japanese literature

Yu Shen

Professor, IU Southeast, History

Education:: Ph.D., University of London
Research Areas:: Modern China; East Asian history

Roy W. Shin

Professor Emeritus, Special Advisor to IU President on Global Partnerships, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Education:: Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Research Areas:: Comparative public and industrial policy, management and development in East Asia; bureaucracy in Korea.

Dmitry Shlapentokh

Associate Professor, IU South Bend History

Education:: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas:: Russia, Asia and China

Doug Slaymaker

Professor, Co-Director, Japan Studies Program, University of Kentucky, Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Education:: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas:: Modern Japan; popular culture in Japan; postwar Japan

Aaron Stalnaker

Professor, Religious Studies

Education:: Ph.D., Brown University
Research Areas:: Comparative religious ethics; philosophy of religions (theistic, non-theistic, and comparative); Chinese thought; Christian thought; moral philosophy; theories of religion

Marvin Sterling

Associate Professor, Anthropology, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research Areas:: Japan; Jamaica; race; cultural globalization; identity; performance; human rights

David Stringer

Associate Professor, Second Language Studies

Education:: Ph.D., University of Durham
Research Areas:: Acquisition; language and spatial cognition; Japanese linguistics

Lynn A. Struve

Professor Emerita, History, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas:: The political, intellectual, and cultural history of Ming-Qing China.

Judith A. Stubbs

Curator, Assistant Professor, History of Art

Education:: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas:: Japanese and Chinese painting and prints; Buddhist sculpture in India and China to 618

Henghua Su

Senior Associate Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Modern Languages Centre

Education:: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Areas:: Chinese linguistics and language pedagogy; second language acquisition

Nozomi Tanaka

Assistant Professor, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Research Areas:: Language acquisition; second language acquisition; language processing; Japanese linguistics

John Teramoto

Jane Weldon Myers Curator of Asian Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Asian Department

Education:: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas:: Japanese art history.

Natsuko Tsujimura

Professor Emerita, EALC, Linguistics

Education:: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Research Areas:: Japanese language; linguistics and language pedagogy; theoretical linguistics

Sue M. C. Tuohy

Senior Lecturer Emerita, EALC, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, International Studies

Education:: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas:: East Asian music and folklore; Chinese culture; ethnicity, nationalism, and tourism

Shoichi Ueda

Lecturer, EALC

Education:: MA. The Ohio State University

Kathryn Vandrey

Program Manager, East Asian Studies Center

Nick Vogt

Assistant Professor, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Areas:: Early Chinese history and religion, archaeology of ritual, inscriptions and manuscripts

John Walbridge

Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, MELC

Education:: Ph.D., Harvard University, Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Research Areas:: Islamic and Iranian philosophy; history of Islamic science; Islamic intellectual history, religion, and mysticism

Greg Waller

Provost Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, The Media School

Education:: Ph.D., State University of New York
Research Areas:: Entertainment and culture; Japanese film; representation of Japan in the United States

Fei-Hsien Wang

Associate Professor, EALC, History

Education:: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas:: Modern Chinese history; law and society; economic life; history of books and media; mobility and empires in East Asia; history of domesticity

Jing Wang

Associate Professor IUPUI, World Languages and Cultures

Education:: Ph.D., Florida State University
Research Areas:: Second language acquisition, Chinese language pedagogy, computer assisted language learning, cultural studies

Shue (Sue) Wang

Ph.D. student, Tsinghua University, China Scholarship Council Fellow

Research Areas:: Quality Assurance in Higher Education via Institutional Assessment Based on College Student Learning Experience: A Comparison of American Experience and Chinese Reality

Paul Watt

Emeritus, Depauw University

Education:: Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Areas:: Religion and Japanese culture; Japanese Buddhism; East Asian religions

Yasuko Ito Watt

Professor Emerita, Japanese Language Coordinator, EALC

Education:: Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University
Research Areas:: Japanese language pedagogy; applied linguistics.

David Weaver

Distinguished and Roy W. Howard Professor Emeritus, Journalism

Research Areas:: Journalists and Journalism; Media Agenda-Setting Effects

Seongji Woo

Professor, School of International Studies, Kyung Hee University

Research Areas:: North Korean Politics

Jason Wu

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Education:: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Research Areas:: Ideology, public opinion, and political participation in China

Tie Xiao

Associate Professor, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas:: Modern Chinese literature, visual culture, and intellectual history

Mieko Yamada

Professor, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Sociology

Education:: Ph.D., Western Michigan University
Research Areas:: Sociology of education; international and comparative education; Japanese education; race and ethnic relations; Japanese minority groups; Japanese popular culture.

Luo Yan

Associate Professor, Institute of Education, Tsinghua University, IU Bloomington Faculty Research Support Program

Research Areas:: Developing National Student Engagement Surveys for Chinese Secondary and Higher Education: Effective Practice for an Era of Mass Schooling

Margaret M. Yan

Professor Emerita, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Areas:: Chinese language, linguistics and language pedagogy; Chinese phonology and dialectology.