
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
Japanese Film and Media, Labor & Management Theory, Media Theory
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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Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
Japanese Film and Media, Labor & Management Theory, Media Theory
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Japanese Language, second language writing, culture learning, translation
Arthur S. Alderson
Professor
Research Areas:
Social inequality
Professor Emeritus, IU South Bend
Research Areas:
HIV/AIDS in China; HIV/AIDS policy in United States; criminal process in China.
Visiting Professor
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Korean literature, environmental humanities, feminist theory
Professor Emerita
Research Areas:
International and comparative criminology; crime and delinquency in China
Interim Chinese Language Coordinator
Teaching Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Chinese pedagogy; cognitive linguistics; sociolinguistics
Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
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
Assistant Professor
Research Areas:
Religious cultures of Japan, Heian-period history, lay religiosity, religious landscapes, and textual practices.
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, International Studies
Research Areas:
Comparative and Chinese politics; political economy; ethnic politics; qualitative research methodologies
Professor of Practice, Central Eurasian Studies
Research Areas:
Chinese history and society, Mongol China social history, Islam in Southwest China
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Korean History and Society, Urban History, Development and Social Change in East Asia, Politics of Memory
Professor, Indiana State University
Research Areas:
International relations; comparative politics, Asian politics.
Hsuan Chang Kitano
Adjunct Lecturer in Music
Director, Chinese Flagship Center
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Foreign language pedagogy, foreign language learning strategies, second language acquisition, heritage language learners, technology assisted learning/teaching and distance learning/teaching
Visiting Professor
Research Areas:
L2 Learner and Teacher Identity, Heritage Language Education
Associate Professor, Purdue University Fort Wayne
Research Areas:
Comparative and international education, Korean education, sociology of education.
Joseph Coleman
Professor of Practice
Research Areas:
International reporting and newswriting; reporting on East Asia; Aging workers in Japan, US and Europe
Emeritus, Gender Studies
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
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
Emeritus
Research Areas:
Chinese management practices; value of a good reputation; minority business enterprise; development of cooperative strategies in fragmented industries.
Associate Professor, Butler University
Research Areas:
Sport and Japanese modernity; women’s history; gender and sexuality in Asia; Japanese mass/popular culture
Former Chair and Professor Emeritus, EALC; Professor Emeritus
Research Areas:
Pre-modern Japanese history; Japan’s international relations.
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Director, Institute for Korean Studies
Research Areas:
Korean ethnography, family, migration, education, cinema
Associate Director, Arabic & Chinese Flagship Programs
Research Areas:
East Asian philosophy, religion, and martial arts; Chinese language pedagogy
Professor, UC Davis
Research Areas:
Japanese folklore, literature, and film, monster and supernatural studies, legend, popular culture, ritual and festival, tourism.
Professor, Anthropology, Gender Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Gender and sexuality; migration and citizenship; marriage; kinship and reproductive politics; law; ethnicity; China and Taiwan
Anthony Glassner
Program Assistant
Jesse Gonzales
Program Assistant
Assistant Professor
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
Assistant Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Research Areas:
Ethnic Minority Education in China; Uyghur Ethno-nationalism, Ethnic Policy in China
Associate Professor
Research Areas:
Chinese economy; economics of communication; Chinese characters; Internet economy
Professor Emeritus
Research Areas:
International politics; international political economy; politics of competition in high technology industries; politics and film.
Professor Emerita, Purdue University
Visiting Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Japanese language pedagogy, second language acquisition, second language processing, Japanese linguistics
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Korean linguistics, Korean language pedagogy
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Social and Economic Inequality, Immigration, Work and Organizations
Daniel Hsieh
Associate Professor, Purdue University
Research Areas:
Chinese Language, Chinese Literature, Chinese Poetry, Redology
Associate Professor
Research Areas:
Confucianism; Ritual Theory; Religious Ethics; Theories of Religion; Chinese Thought
Lecturer
Research Areas:
Korean language and linguistics; academic literacy development; language assessment; language pedagogy; L2 writing; bilingual/multilingual literacy
Professor Emerita and Resident Fellow, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Literary theory and semiotics; 18th and 19th century literature and arts, East and West; Japanese culture of the Edo and Meiji periods.
Assistant Director
Professor Emeritus
Research Areas:
Business economics and public policy; Korean economic policies.
Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Modern Japanese politics and business; Japanese social institutions and mass media
Margaret Key
Chief of Staff
Research Areas:
Modern Japanese literature.
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Korean language and linguistics, Korean language pedagogy, Second language acquisition
Director, Institute for Korean Studies
Korea Foundation Professor
Research Areas:
Gender and Labor Politics, Social Movements, Feminist Theory, and Women in East Asia and Asian America; Transnational Migration, Education, and the Family
Pamela Buell Curator of Asian Art
Research Areas:
Art and architecture of South Asia, Tibet, and the Himalayas, with an emphasis on Buddhist temple sites and sculpture.
Professor Emeritus
Research Areas:
Japanese linguistics; comparative syntax; interaction of morphology and syntax; syntax-semantics mapping; Interaction among prosody, syntax and semantics/pragmatics
Assistant Professor, Augustana College
Research Areas:
Modern Chinese history, museums and collections, social networks, antiquarianism and STS, visual and material culture
Associate Professor and Korean Language Program Coordinator, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Korean language and linguistics; comparative study of East Asian languages; discourse-pragmatic and cognitive approach to grammar
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Korean language and linguistics, Korean language pedagogy, Grammaticalization
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
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
Professor
Research Areas:
Management of multinational enterprises; international strategic alliances; internationalization process
Director, 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
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
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Chinese linguistics Sentence processing East Asian psycholinguistics Experimental linguistics, corpus linguistics Linguistic anthropology
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Psycholinguistics, Chinese linguistics, sentence processing, linguistic anthropology
Associate Professor
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
Dominic Lowery
Program Assistant
Assistant Professor and Chinese Language Program Coordinator, East Asian Languages and Cultures
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
Paul McNutt Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Pre-modern Chinese narratives; Chinese literati culture; traditional Chinese literature; women and gender studies
Assistant professor, Jagiellonian University
Research Areas:
Political and cultural history of China, India, and China-India relations
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Chinese Language Pedagogy, Chinese Linguistics, Prosodic Phonology, Chinese Dialectology
Professor of Music Theory; Adjunct affiliate faculty, Ethnomusicology (Folklore & Ethnomusicology)
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
Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Japanese pedagogy; language variation and change; gender and language
Taylor McCartney
Program Assistant
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Contemporary Korean society, International migration, Refugees and asylum-seekers, Law and society, Political sociology, Transnational and global sociology
Professor, Religious Studies
Research Areas:
Early Chinese Philosophy, global synthesis in early China, global philosophical methodologies
Graduate Student, East Asian Studies Center
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Department Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Chinese society; law and society; work; occupations and professions; development
Former Chair and Professor Emerita, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
East Asian art history; Chinese painting.
Associate Professor
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
Director, East Asian Studies Center
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Premodern Japanese history; global medievalisms; violence and conflict; weak states; martial suicides; banditry
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Twentieth-century Japanese history; consumption and consumer culture; environmental history; urban history; history of visual culture
Associate Librarian, Library Technical Services
Research Areas:
Korean literature; information retrieval; information storage.
Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies
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.
Professor, Western Kentucky University Political Science
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
Research Areas:
Japanese indigo production; natural dyes
Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Intellectual and cultural history of modern Korea; Japanese colonialism; popular culture; transnational studies.
Outreach Coordinator
Professor Emeritus, Adjunct Professor, EALC, History, Education
Research Areas:
Japanese history and society; education and literacy.
Associate Professor Emerita, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Japanese language; classical Japanese literature; feminist literary theory
Associate Professor, History
Research Areas:
Environmental history; consumption and commodities; race and ethnicity; comparative empires; early modernity; China and Inner Asia
Professor Emeritus, History
Research Areas:
French history; history of science and medicine, and twentieth-century Europe; global health
Emeriti Faculty, Purdue University Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Japanese literature
Yu Shen
Professor, IU Southeast, History
Research Areas:
Modern China; East Asian history
Professor Emeritus, Special Advisor to IU President on Global Partnerships, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Research Areas:
Comparative public and industrial policy, management and development in East Asia; bureaucracy in Korea.
Morgan Short
Program Assistant, East Asian Studies Center
Professor, Co-Director, Japan Studies Program, University of Kentucky, Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Research Areas:
Modern Japan; popular culture in Japan; postwar Japan
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Comparative religious ethics; philosophy of religions (theistic, non-theistic, and comparative); Chinese thought; Christian thought; moral philosophy; theories of religion
Associate Professor, Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Japan; Jamaica; race; cultural globalization; identity; performance; human rights
Associate Professor, Second Language Studies
Research Areas:
Acquisition; language and spatial cognition; Japanese linguistics
Professor Emerita, History, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
The political, intellectual, and cultural history of Ming-Qing China.
Senior Associate Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Modern Languages Centre
Research Areas:
Chinese linguistics and language pedagogy; second language acquisition
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
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
Assistant Costume Studio Supervisor, Director of Dance Costume, Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance
Professor Emerita, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Japanese language; linguistics and language pedagogy; theoretical linguistics
Senior Lecturer Emerita, EALC, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, International Studies
Research Areas:
East Asian music and folklore; Chinese culture; ethnicity, nationalism, and tourism
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Program Manager, East Asian Studies Center
Research Areas:
Ritual Studies, Epistemology, Religion and Gender, Religious Borrowing
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Early Chinese history and religion, archaeology of ritual, inscriptions and manuscripts
Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Islamic and Iranian philosophy; history of Islamic science; Islamic intellectual history, religion, and mysticism
Provost Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, The Media School
Research Areas:
Entertainment and culture; Japanese film; representation of Japan in the United States
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, History
Research Areas:
Modern Chinese history; law and society; economic life; history of books and media; mobility and empires in East Asia; history of domesticity
Associate Professor IUPUI, World Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Second language acquisition, Chinese language pedagogy, computer assisted language learning, cultural studies
Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
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
Professor Emerita, Japanese Language Coordinator, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Japanese language pedagogy; applied linguistics.
Distinguished and Roy W. Howard Professor Emeritus, Journalism
Research Areas:
Journalists and Journalism; Media Agenda-Setting Effects
Professor, School of International Studies, Kyung Hee University
Research Areas:
North Korean Politics
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Research Areas:
Ideology, public opinion, and political participation in China
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Modern Chinese literature, visual culture, and intellectual history
Professor, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Sociology
Research Areas:
Sociology of education; international and comparative education; Japanese education; race and ethnic relations; Japanese minority groups; Japanese popular culture.
Professor Emerita, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Areas:
Chinese language, linguistics and language pedagogy; Chinese phonology and dialectology.
Pedagogy Specialist, Chinese Flagship Program
Research Areas:
Chinese language pedagogy, Chinese linguistics, Chinese operas and dramas
Graduate Student, East Asian Studies Center
Liana Zhou
Director of Library and Archives, Kinsey Institute
Research Areas:
Chinese literature; Asian sexuality.
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