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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

Email:: hairries@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Japanese Film and Media, Labor & Management Theory, Media Theory

Yasuko Akiyama

Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 855-7171
Email:: yakiyama@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Japanese Language, second language writing, culture learning, translation

Arthur S. Alderson

Grimshaw Professor, Sociology

Phone:: (812) 856-5883
Email:: aralders@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Social inequality

Allen Anderson

Professor Emeritus, Criminal Justice

Research Areas:
HIV/AIDS in China; HIV/AIDS policy in United States; criminal process in China.

Roslynn Ang

Former Fulbright Visiting Professor

Email:: roang@iu.edu

Research Areas:

Cultural Anthropology, Settler Colonial Studies, Indigeneity

Vanessa Baker

Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: bakervc@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Korean literature, environmental humanities, feminist theory

Yingling Bao

Teaching Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 855-5619
Email:: yingbao@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Chinese pedagogy; cognitive linguistics; sociolinguistics

Christopher I Beckwith

Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Central Eurasian Studies

Email:: beckwith@iu.edu

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

Email:: heablair@iu.edu

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

Gardner Bovingdon

Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures, International Studies

Phone:: (812) 856-0230
Email:: gbovingd@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Comparative and Chinese politics; political economy; ethnic politics; qualitative research methodologies

Michael Brose

Professor of Practice, Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:: (812) 855-4403
Email:: brosemc@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Chinese history and society, Mongol China social history, Islam in Southwest China

Russell Burge

Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: rburge@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Korean History and Society, Urban History, Development and Social Change in East Asia, Politics of Memory

Michael Chambers

Professor, Indiana State University

Email:: Mike.Chambers@indstate.edu

Research Areas:
International relations; comparative politics, Asian politics.

Hsuan Chang Kitano

Adjunct Lecturer, Jacobs School of Music

Email:: hsuchang@iu.edu

Yea Fen Chen

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

Phone:: (812) 855-4249
Email:: yeafen@iu.edu

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, Department of History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religious Studies

Phone:: +1-219-980-6981
Email:: dchenlin@iu.edu

Research Areas:
History of China and modern East Asia

Sheena Choi

Associate Professor, Purdue University Fort Wayne

Research Areas:
Comparative and international education, Korean education, sociology of education.

Joseph Coleman

Professor of Practice

Phone:: 812-855-8657
Email:: josecole@iu.edu

Research Areas:
International reporting and newswriting; reporting on East Asia; Aging workers in Japan, US and Europe

Laurel L. Cornell

Professor Emeritus, Gender Studies

Email:: cornell@iu.edu

Research Areas:

Early Modern Japan

Stephanie DeBoer

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 856-3708
Email:: sdeboer@iu.edu

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

Professor Emeritus, Kelley School of Business

Phone:: 812-856-5063

Research Areas:
Chinese management practices; value of a good reputation; minority business enterprise; development of cooperative strategies in fragmented industries.

Elise Marie Edwards

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Executive Associate Dean, Butler University

Phone:: 317-940-9743
Email:: emedwar1@butler.edu

Research Areas:
Sport and Japanese modernity; women’s history; gender and sexuality in Asia; Japanese mass/popular culture

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Robert Eno

Professor Emeritus

Email:: eno@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Chinese philosophy; early Chinese history.

John Finch

Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Associate Director, Institute for Korean Studies

Phone:: (812) 856-9787
Email:: finchjd@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Korean ethnography, family, migration, education, cinema

Brian Flaherty

Associate Director, Arabic & Chinese Flagship Programs

Email:: bdflaher@iu.edu

Research Areas:
East Asian philosophy, religion, and martial arts; Chinese language pedagogy

Michael Dylan Foster

Professor, UC Davis

Phone:: (530) 752-3192
Email:: mdfoster@ucdavis.edu

Research Areas:
Japanese folklore, literature, and film, monster and supernatural studies, legend, popular culture, ritual and festival, tourism.

Sara Friedman

Professor, Anthropology, Gender Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 856-4595
Email:: slfriedm@iu.edu

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
Email:: antglass@iu.edu

Jennifer Goodlander

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

Yoshiko Okada Green

Senior Lecturer, Japanese

Phone:: (574) 520-5531
Email:: ygreen@iusb.edu

Research Areas:
Japanese

Timothy Grose

Assistant Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Phone:: +1-(812)877-8767
Email:: grose@rose-hulman.edu

Research Areas:
Ethnic Minority Education in China; Uyghur Ethno-nationalism, Ethnic Policy in China

Rick Harbaugh

Professor, Kelley School of Business

Phone:: 812 855-2777
Email:: riharbaugh@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Chinese economy; economics of communication; Chinese characters; Internet economy

Jeffrey Hart

Professor Emeritus, Political Science

Email:: hartj@iu.edu

Research Areas:
International politics; international political economy; politics of competition in high technology industries; politics and film.

Sally A. Hastings

Professor Emerita, Purdue University

Email:: sahnolte@purdue.edu

Eunhye Hess

Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: Email: ekhess@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Korean linguistics, Korean language pedagogy

Joseph L. Hoffmann

Professor Emeritus, Maurer School of Law

Phone:: (812) 855-6150
Email:: hoffma@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Criminal law; Japanese law and society

Hilary Holbrow

Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: 812-855-5884
Email:: hilholbr@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Social and Economic Inequality, Immigration, Work and Organizations

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Daniel Hsieh

Associate Professor, Purdue University

Email:: dhsieh@purdue.edu

Research Areas:
Chinese Language, Chinese Literature, Chinese Poetry, Redology

Michael Ing

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Email:: ming@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Confucianism; Ritual Theory; Religious Ethics; Theories of Religion; Chinese Thought

Weejeong Jeong

Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: weejeong@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Korean language and linguistics; academic literacy development; language assessment; language pedagogy; L2 writing; bilingual/multilingual literacy

Sumie A. Jones

Professor Emerita and Resident Fellow, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: joness@iu.edu

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, Kelley School of Business

Phone:: 812-855-9219
Email:: kang@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Business economics and public policy; Korean economic policies.

Gregory J. Kasza

Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: kasza@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Modern Japanese politics and business; Japanese social institutions and mass media

Jiyoung Kim

Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 855-3493
Email:: jk248@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Korean language and linguistics, Korean language pedagogy, Second language acquisition

Seung-Kyung Kim

Director, Institute for Korean Studies
Korea Foundation Professor

Phone:: (812) 856-9757
Email:: sk84@iu.edu

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

Pronouns:: she/her
Phone:: 812-855-4470
Email:: nakimmet@iu.edu

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

Email:: kitagawa@iu.edu

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

Email:: elizabethlawrence@augustana.edu

Research Areas:
Modern Chinese history, museums and collections, social networks, antiquarianism and STS, visual and material culture

Hyo Sang Lee

Associate Professor and Korean Language Program Coordinator, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 855-8721
Email:: hyoslee@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Korean language and linguistics; comparative study of East Asian languages; discourse-pragmatic and cognitive approach to grammar

Joungmok Lee

Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: jl377@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Korean language and linguistics, Korean language pedagogy, Grammaticalization

Wendy Leutert

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 855-9672
Email:: wleutert@iu.edu

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

Executive Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Kelley School of Business
Professor of International Business

Phone:: 812-855-5967
Email:: lid@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Management of multinational enterprises; international strategic alliances; internationalization process

Adam P. Liff

Director, 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative
Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 856-0105
Email:: aliff@iu.edu
Website:: https://adampliff.com/

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, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 856-0105
Email:: dingxiao@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Chinese linguistics Sentence processing East Asian psycholinguistics Experimental linguistics, corpus linguistics Linguistic anthropology

Charles Chien-Jer Lin

Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Department Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 855-5180
Email:: chiclin@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Psycholinguistics, Chinese linguistics, sentence processing, linguistic anthropology

Hsien-Chang Lin

Associate Professor, School of Public Health

Phone:: 812-855-6197
Email:: linhsi@iu.edu

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 Collection

Phone:: (812) 855-9695
Email:: wliu@iu.edu

Research Areas:
China and Japan

Yuan Lu

Assistant Professor and Chinese Language Program Coordinator, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: yl245@iu.edu

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

Paul McNutt Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 856-0833
Email:: luom@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Pre-modern Chinese narratives; Chinese literati culture; traditional Chinese literature; women and gender studies

Antonina Luszczykiewicz

Assistant Professor, Jagiellonian University
Former IU Fulbright Scholar

Email:: anluszcz@iu.edu

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

Xiang Lyu

Senior Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 855-3635
Email:: xlv@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Chinese Language Pedagogy, Chinese Linguistics, Prosodic Phonology, Chinese Dialectology

Noriko Manabe

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

Phone:: 812-855-4738
Email:: nmanabe@iu.edu

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, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 855-5169
Email:: mmatsuba@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Japanese pedagogy; language variation and change; gender and language

Alexus McLeod

Professor, Religious Studies

Email:: almcleo@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Early Chinese Philosophy, global synthesis in early China, global philosophical methodologies

Ethan Michelson

Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 856-1521
Email:: emichels@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Chinese society; law and society; work; occupations and professions; development

Osamu James Nakagawa

Distinguished Professor, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture, and Design

Email:: onakagaw@iu.edu

Research Areas:
International photography

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Susan Nelson

Former Chair and Professor Emerita, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: senelson@iu.edu

Research Areas:
East Asian art history; Chinese painting.

Yuri Obata

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

Morten Oxenboell

Director, East Asian Studies Center
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Pronouns:: He/Him
Phone:: (812) 855-5339
Email:: mortoxen@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Premodern Japanese history; global medievalisms; violence and conflict; weak states; martial suicides; banditry

Scott O’Bryan

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 855-2454
Email:: spobryan@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Twentieth-century Japanese history; consumption and consumer culture; environmental history; urban history; history of visual culture

Taemin Kim Park

Assistant Professor, Luddy School of Informatics
East Asian Cataloger, Wells Library

Phone:: 812-855-8536
Email:: park@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Korean literature; information retrieval; information storage.

Gedun Rabsal

Senior Lecturer, Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:: (812) 856-2960
Email:: grabsal@iu.edu

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

Email:: timothy.rich@wku.edu

Research Areas:
Electoral politics in Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan;cross-strait relations, North Korean politics, China-Africa relations

Rowland Ricketts

Provost Professor, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design

Email:: rickettr@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Japanese indigo production; natural dyes

Michael Robinson

Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: robime@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Intellectual and cultural history of modern Korea; Japanese colonialism; popular culture; transnational studies.

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Richard Rubinger

Professor Emeritus, Adjunct Professor, EALC, History, Education

Email:: rubinge@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Japanese history and society; education and literacy.

Edith L. Sarra

Associate Professor Emerita, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 855-4031
Email:: esarra@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Japanese language; classical Japanese literature; feminist literary theory

Jonathan Schlesinger

Associate Professor, History
Director, History Honors Program

Phone:: (812) 855-6882
Email:: joschles@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Environmental history; consumption and commodities; race and ethnicity; comparative empires; early modernity; China and Inner Asia

William H. Schneider

Professor Emeritus, History

Phone:: 317-274-7220
Email:: whschnei@iu.edu

Research Areas:
French history; history of science and medicine, and twentieth-century Europe; global health

Eiji Sekine

Emeriti Faculty, Purdue University Languages and Cultures

Pronouns:: He/Him
Email:: esekine@purdue.edu

Research Areas:
Japanese literature

Yu Shen

Professor, History

Phone:: (812) 941-2533
Email:: yshen@iu.edu

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

Phone:: (812) 856-4657
Email:: shinr@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Comparative public and industrial policy, management and development in East Asia; bureaucracy in Korea.

Dmitry Shlapentokh

Associate Professor of History

Phone:: (574) 520-4349
Email:: dshlapen@iusb.edu

Research Areas:
Russia, Asia and China

Morgan Short

Program Assistant, Taiwan Studies Initiative

Email:: mokshort@iu.edu

Doug Slaymaker

Professor, Japan Studies, University of Kentucky

Phone:: 859-257-7557
Email:: dslaym@uky.edu

Research Areas:
Modern Japan; popular culture in Japan; postwar Japan

Aaron Stalnaker

Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: astalnak@iu.edu

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, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Research Areas:
Japan; Jamaica; race; cultural globalization; identity; performance; human rights

David Stringer

Associate Professor, Second Language Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Second Language Studies

Phone:: (812) 855-5992
Email:: ds6@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Acquisition; language and spatial cognition; Japanese linguistics

Lynn A. Struve

Professor Emerita, History, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: struve@iu.edu

Research Areas:
The political, intellectual, and cultural history of Ming-Qing China.

Henghua Su

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

Phone:: +86 (0)512 88161380
Email:: Henghua.Su@xjtlu.edu.cn

Research Areas:
Chinese linguistics and language pedagogy; second language acquisition

Jae DiBello Takeuchi

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: jtake@iu.edu

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

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Natsuko Tsujimura

Professor Emerita, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: tsujimur@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Japanese language; linguistics and language pedagogy; theoretical linguistics

Sue Tuohy

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

Email:: tuohys@iu.edu

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

Shoichi Ueda

Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: sueda@iu.edu

Research Areas:

Japanese language, language pedagogy, culturally authentic language learning approaches

Kathryn Vandrey

Program Manager, East Asian Studies Center

Pronouns:: She/her

Research Areas:
Ritual Studies, Epistemology, Religion and Gender, Religious Borrowing

Nick Vogt

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 856-7002
Email:: pnvogt@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Early Chinese history and religion, archaeology of ritual, inscriptions and manuscripts

John Walbridge

Professor, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 855-8689
Email:: jwalbrid@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Islamic and Iranian philosophy; history of Islamic science; Islamic intellectual history, religion, and mysticism

Greg Waller

Provost Professor Emeritus, Cinema and Media Studies, The Media School

Email:: gwaller@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Entertainment and culture; Japanese film; representation of Japan in the United States

Fei-Hsien Wang

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

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Jing Wang

Associate Professor, Chinese, Department of World Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (317) 278-3625
Email:: jw41@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Second language acquisition, Chinese language pedagogy, computer assisted language learning, cultural studies

Eveline Washul

Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies

Phone:: (812) 855-0019
Email:: ewashul@iu.edu

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

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Yasuko Ito Watt

Associate Professor Emerita, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email:: ywatt@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Japanese language pedagogy; applied linguistics.

David Weaver

Distinguished and Roy W. Howard Professor Emeritus, Journalism

Email:: weaver@iu.edu

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

Seongji Woo

Professor, School of International Studies, Kyung Hee University

Phone:: 031-201-2368
Email:: sjwoo@khu.ac.kr

Research Areas:
North Korean Politics, Inter-Korean relations, International Relations Theory

Jason Wu

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Email:: jywu@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Ideology, public opinion, and political participation in China

Tie Xiao

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Phone:: (812) 855-7109
Email:: tiexiao@iu.edu

Research Areas:
Modern Chinese literature, visual culture, and intellectual history

Mieko Yamada

Professor, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Sociology

Phone:: 260-481-0147
Email:: yamadam@pfw.edu

Research Areas:
Sociology of education; international and comparative education; Japanese education; race and ethnic relations; Japanese minority groups; Japanese popular culture.