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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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