CEAS Faculty Alphabetical
International finance, corporate finance, contracting and governance; international expertise in capital markets in Japan and South America
Buddhism and Japanese religious history
Asian films, particularly Japanese, silent and early world cinema, colonial and diasporic cinemas, film/media history and criticism, and postcolonial film studies
Consumer research on media habits and preferences in emerging democracies
International trade regulation, advanced international trade regulation, Islamic law
Social relations in Amazonian rural development; expansion of soybean production in Amazonia; development and the Politics of Scale
Well hydraulics, direct-push methods for hydrostratigraphic characterization, ground-water flow and transport in heterogeneous formations, stream-aquifer interactions, phreatophytes. Experience in China, Korea, and Japan.
Spiritual diversity in social work theory and practice; philosophy of social work; qualitative research methods; international social work; Korean social welfare in relation to Korean philosophy and religions; East Asian and international perspectives on social welfare.
Environment, marine policy, economic geography, tourism, East Asia
International business, the global regime of international business, and business in China.
Pre-modern Japanese literature, Japanese language pedagogy
Gender, religion, race and ethnicity, and East Asian studies; politics of gender and conversion in contemporary South Korean evangelicalism
Chinese imperial history; inner Asian history
Linguistic anthropology, typology, field methods, media archives; endangered-language documentation; China and Central Asia.
Curator, Global Contemporary & Asian Art
Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics
Japanese art history, Buddhist art history
Public administration, public administration ethics, theories of public administration, systems of multi-level governance, and American local government; experience in Korea and China
Modern Japanese literature, play in Japan, translation, Japanese language pedagogy
International journalism
Japanese art history, Japanese devotional site
Modern Chinese history, Republican Chinese history, especially ROC science policy on Taiwan
Geotechnical engineering; geosynthetics; earth-retaining structures, ground improvement, pile foundations, and pavement design. Experience in China.
Comparative law, international commerce and investment, public international law international economic law, international public law, comparative law legal history, dynastic Chinese law
Performance budgeting and management
Comparative corporate governance, corporate finance, and modern Chinese law
Furniture-based sculpture; Asian materials
Japanese Studies Librarian, East Asian Library
20th-century and contemporary Japanese art history
Comparative politics, Chinese politics, rural political development
Specialized in the areas of work and organizations, race and ethnicity, Korea studies, and quantitative methodology
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Cross-cultural interaction in organizational settings (U.S.-Japan, U.S.-China, U.S.-Japan-Mexico); comparative and cross-cultural management; Japanese organizational behavior; management issues in binational organizations; cross-cultural negotiation
Traditional and digital photography, video and mixed media; social documentary photography on issues such as migration of Asians to the Americas; multiculturalism, diversity and ethnic identity; Chinese migration within and outside China
Korean language teaching
Mental health treatment outcomes for adults with serious mental illness; improving care for people with serious mental illness through collaboration with community-based agencies; Asian and Asian American mental health.
Political communication, consumer behavior, media credibility, international communication and race and gender issues
Tibetan language
Chinese linguistics and second language acquisition
Religion in Japan; popular religious expression and ritual in the Tokugawa period.
Chinese language and literature; Late Ming to early modern fiction, gender, and sexuality
Early Chinese art; calligraphy, aesthetics, and Buddhist sculpture of the medieval period in China
First Language Acquisition, Child Language
South Asian religions, history of religions methodology, religion and gender
Natural products, antibiotics, antivirals, antimutagenics/ chemopreventive agents, antitumor agents; traditional Chinese medicine; green tea
Japanese language acquisition, adult second language processing (L2) of Japanese
Research interests are interracial marriage, sociology of Japan, Asian military wives and globalization in East Asia.
Drawing, printmaking, painting, and installation art; Japanese woodblock printing methods
Chinese language pedagogy, Tibetan culture
Premodern Japan; social and cultural history, especially traditional Japanese theater, foodways, and urban agriculture; Tibetan history
Decision science and finance; doing business and investing in China
Social, cultural, and psychological dimensions in design; global heritage management and architectural preservation; nonwestern traditions in architecture and urban design (special focus on South, Southeast, and East Asian countries); Community design practices (affordable housing and post-disaster resettlement)
Japanese culture and tea ceremony
Buddhism in China, Tiantai and Pure Land traditions
Specializes in Korean Art and Visual Culture; Research interests include traditional and contemporary Korean Buddhist art and culture and Korean ceramics.
Commercialization of feelings, emotions, and romantic relationships
Modern Japan, Japanese colonialism, history and memory of World War II in East Asia, and urban legends in interwar Japan
Specialization: Early Chinese paleography, language and culture; Chinese language teaching.
Latin American art, folk, and traditional music, nationalism, identity, migration, globalization, and ballroom dancing in China
Specialization: Modern and Contemporary Chinese literature and film
Linguistic anthropology; Japanese culture
Comparative public policy, political communication and media, East Asian politics and public policy in Korea and Japan
Specialization: Korean folklore, Korean language teaching, popular culture in East Asia
Phonology, phonetics, phonology-phonetics relations, tone languages, Chinese languages
Intercultural/intergenerational/mass communication in regard to cultural values, age stereotypes, conflict management, and media effects; expertise in China
Strategic management, corporate strategy; expertise in China
Comparative health care systems; health and social behavior; traditional Chinese medicine
