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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.

Roslynn Ang

Visiting Professor, EASC

Soo Min Bae

Past Program Assistant / Intern, East Asian Studies Center

Vanessa Baker

Assistant Professor, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Research Areas:: Korean literature, environmental humanities, feminist theory

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

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

Michael Chambers

Professor, Indiana State University, Political Science

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

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

Hohsung Choe

Visiting Professor, 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

Former Graduate Student, East Asian Studies Center

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

Professor Emeritus, EALC, Philosophy

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

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

Anthony Glassner

Program Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Pronouns:: He/Him
Education:: Indiana University

Jesse Gonzales

Program Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Pronouns:: He/Him
Education:: Indiana University

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

Yoshiko Okada Green

Senior Lecturer, IU South Bend, World Language Studies

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

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

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.

Keiko Hata

Visiting Assistant Professor, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Japanese Linguistics
Research Areas:: Japanese language pedagogy, second language acquisition, second language processing, Japanese linguistics

Eunhye Hess

Lecturer, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Oklahoma State University
Research Areas:: Korean linguistics, Korean language pedagogy

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

Daniel Hsieh

Associate Professor, Purdue University

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

Michael Ing

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

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

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

Phone:: 812-855-8979
Email:: ljjudson@iu.edu

Heejoon Kang

Professor Emeritus, Business

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

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.

Jina Kim

Former Graduate Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

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

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

Natasha Kimmet

Pamela Buell Curator of Asian Art, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

Pronouns:: she/her
Education:: Ph.D., University of Vienna
Research Areas:: Art and architecture of South Asia, Tibet, and the Himalayas, with an emphasis on Buddhist temple sites and sculpture.

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

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

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

Joungmok Lee

Lecturer, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of Hawa'i at Mānoa
Research Areas:: Korean language and linguistics, Korean language pedagogy, Grammaticalization

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

Dominic Lowery

Program Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Pronouns:: He/Him
Education:: Indiana University

Yuan Lu

Assistant Professor, Chinese Language Program Coordinator, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., Second Language Acquisition, University of Iowa, 2017
Research Areas:: Chinese as a second language acquisition, Chinese as a second language grammar development, Chinese language pedagogy, second language acquisition theories and research methods, second language assessment and testing, technology-assisted language learning and teaching

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

Noriko Manabe

Professor of Music Theory; Adjunct affiliate faculty, Ethnomusicology (Folklore & Ethnomusicology), Jacobs School of Music

Education:: Ph.D., Ethnomusicology and Music Theory, CUNY Graduate Center
Research Areas:: Music in Japan; social movements; popular music; hip hop; songwriting; intertextuality; linguistics and music; Fukushima nuclear disaster; atomic-bomb trauma in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; children’s songs; technology and the music industry

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

Taylor McCartney

Program Assistant, Chemistry

Pronouns:: She/Her
Education:: Indiana University

Angela McClean

Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean Politics and Society, EALC

Education:: Ph.D., University of California San Diego
Research Areas:: Contemporary Korean society, International migration, Refugees and asylum-seekers, Law and society, Political sociology, Transnational and global sociology

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 Student, East Asian Studies Center

Pronouns:: she/her

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

Mark Minton

Professor of Practice, EALC

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

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.

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

Morten Oxenboell

Director, East Asian Studies Center

Pronouns:: He/Him
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

Taemin Kim Park

Associate Librarian, Library Technical Services

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

Gedun Rabsal

Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies

Education:: Ganden Jangtse College, Mundgod, Karnataka, India
Research Areas:: My life’s goal has been to contribute to the preservation and advancement of Tibetan literature and language. Therefore, I have chosen to devote my career to teaching, writing, researching, editing and translating Tibetan (contemporary, classical, dialectal) so that Tibetan language can flourish in today’s world.

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.

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

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

Morgan Short

Program Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Pronouns:: She/Her
Education:: Indiana University

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.

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

Jae DiBello Takeuchi

Associate Professor, EALC

Education:: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Areas:: Japanese sociolinguistics Applied linguistics, Second language acquisition, Language ideologies, Japanese dialects and speech styles, Japanese honorifics and linguistic politeness, Japanese as a foreign language, Foreign language pedagogy

Nozomi Tanaka

Assistant Professor, EALC

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

Eriko Terao

Assistant Costume Studio Supervisor, Director of Dance Costume, Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Education:: M.F.A., Costume Design, Indiana University

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

Pronouns:: She/her
Research Areas:: Ritual Studies, Epistemology, Religion and Gender, Religious Borrowing

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

Eveline Washul

Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies

Education:: Ph.D., Indiana University (CEUS and Anthropology)
Research Areas:: Anthropology of place making; urbanization and development; state power and Indigenous peoplehood; epistemic pluralism; ethnicity and state building in modern China; historical geography; history of Tibeto-Mongol interface; borderlands; genealogies; local histories

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.

Margaret M. Yan

Professor Emerita, EALC

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