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

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

Director, East Asian Studies Center

Education:

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Research Areas:

Chinese history and society, Mongol China social history, Islam in Southwest China

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

Grants Assistant/Intern, 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

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

Sheena Choi

Associate Professor, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Education

Education:

Ph.D., State University of New York

Research Areas:

Comparative and international education, Korean education, sociology of education.

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

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

Associate Professor, Purdue University, History

Education:

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research Areas:

Modern Japan; Japanese women’s issues.

Joseph L. Hoffmann

Professor, 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

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

Susan Hwang

Assistant Professor, EALC

Education:

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Research Areas:

Modern Korean literature and cultural studies

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

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.

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

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

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

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, 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

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 Intern, 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, Business

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

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

Mengxin Liu

Past Intern

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

Xiang Lyu

Lecturer, EALC

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

Ethan Michelson

Associate Professor, Sociology, EALC

Education:

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research Areas:

Chinese society; law and society; work; occupations and professions; development

Perry Miller

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

Associate 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, 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

Joshua Owens

Past Intern

Morten Oxenboell

Paul V. McNutt Associate Professor in Japanese Studies, EALC

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, Department Chair, 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 President for International Partnerships, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs

Education:

M.A., Indiana University

Research Areas:

University administration; East Asian trade.

Timothy S. Rich

Associate 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

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

Visiting Assistant Professor, EALC

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

Outreach Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

Edith L. Sarra

Associate Professor, 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

Jun Ho Seo

Past Intern

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

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

Will Strum

Program Assistant, East Asian Studies Center

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

Assistant Professor, Chinese Language Program Coordinator, EALC

Education:

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Areas:

Chinese linguistics and language pedagogy; second language acquisition

Kenneth M. Swope

Associate Professor of History, Univeristy of Southern Mississippi

Education:

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Research Areas:

Ming dynasty military; Chinese political and social history; early modern East Asian international relations; comparative military history.

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, EALC, Linguistics

Education:

Ph.D., University of Arizona

Research Areas:

Japanese language; linguistics and language pedagogy; theoretical linguistics

Sue M. C. Tuohy

Senior Lecturer, EALC, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, International Studies

Education:

Ph.D., Indiana University

Research Areas:

East Asian music and folklore; Chinese culture; ethnicity, nationalism, and tourism

Nick Vogt

Assistant Professor, EALC

Education:

Ph.D., Columbia University

Research Areas:

Early Chinese history and religion, archaeology of ritual, inscriptions and manuscripts

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

Assistant Professor, EALC

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

Associate 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.

Reiko Yonogi

Emeritus, World Languages and Cultures

Education:

Ph.D., University of Illinois

Research Areas:

Japanese language and literature; comparative literature.

Hyun Joo Yoon

Director of Public Relations, Republic of Korea Ministry of National Defense

Research Areas:

National Defense and Security Policies

Wang Yuan

Associate Professor, International Studies, Northeast Normal University, Fulbright Scholar, affiliated with EASC

Research Areas:

International and Global Education in the United States

Andrea Vega Yudico

Past Intern, East Asian Studies Center

Xin Zhang

Associate Professor, IUPUI, History

Education:

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Research Areas:

Modern Chinese history

Liana Zhou

Director of Library and Archives, Kinsey Institute

Education:

M.L.S., Indiana University

Research Areas:

Chinese literature; Asian sexuality.