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

Roslynn Ang

Visiting Professor, EASC

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.

Jillian Clark

Former Graduate Student, East Asian Studies Center

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

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

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.

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

Keiko Hata

Visiting Assistant Professor, EALC

Education:

Ph.D., Japanese Linguistics

Research Areas:

Japanese language pedagogy, second language acquisition, second language processing, Japanese linguistics

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

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

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

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

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

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

Osamu James Nakagawa

Distinguished Professor, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design

Education:

M.F.A., University of Houston

Research Areas:

International photography

Adam Noffsinger

Graduate Student, East Asian Studies Center

Yuri Obata

Associate Professor, Communication Arts

Education:

Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

Research Areas:

Mass communication theories; mass communication law and ethics; Comparative media studies, including mass media and popular culture in Japan, North Korea, Bhutan, China

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

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

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

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

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

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

Natsuko Tsujimura

Professor Emerita, EALC, Linguistics

Education:

Ph.D., University of Arizona

Research Areas:

Japanese language; linguistics and language pedagogy; theoretical linguistics

Shoichi Ueda

Lecturer, EALC

Education:

MA. The Ohio State University

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

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.