CEAS Faculty Alphabetical


Asian films, particularly Japanese, silent and early world cinema, colonial and diasporic cinemas, film/media history and criticism, and postcolonial film studies

International trade regulation, advanced international trade regulation, Islamic law, TPP, Indian trade law and policy, China-US trade war

International business strategy in Latin America and East Asisa, trade and regional integration, public sector management, microfinance

Political and ecological dynamics of development in Latin American, especially the Brazilian Amazon; some experience in Mongolia on environmental issues related to mining, grazing, and urban life in Ulaanbaatar

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

Cultural impacts on healthcare design, Chinese hospital design, Evidence-based Design

Econometrics, financial econometrics, quantitative finance and statistics, Asian economies

Performance and analysis of East Asian piano literature

Climate change adaptation, environmental disasters, coastal management, and human-environment interaction in South Korea and the United States

Gender and domesticity in art and craft Korean food as a cultural diplomacy in contemporary public art.

Pre-modern Japanese literature, Japanese language pedagogy

TESOL, Critical Literacy in the Korean educational context, TESOL Practicum in Korea

Gender, religion, race and ethnicity, and East Asian studies; politics of gender and conversion in contemporary South Korean evangelicalism

Buddhist ethics, Classic Confucian ethical and political philosophy, Cross-cultural psychological study of moral character

Processes and Consequences of Territorialization & Place Attachment; Geopolitics & Border Studies; Migration & Diaspora Studies; Geographies of Nationalism & Transnationalism; Justice, Ethics, & Geographies of Citizenship; Urban Landscape Change. Mongolia & Northeast Asia, Islamic & Russian Borderlands, Central Eurasia/Greater Middle East

Relationship between culture and mental health, efficacy of psychological interventions, and counselling in the Chinese cultural context

Linguistic anthropology, typology, field methods, media archives; endangered-language documentation; China and Central Asia

Curator, Global Contemporary & Asian Art

Language processing, neurolinguistics, language acquisition; languages of research include the East Asian languages Japanese and Chinese

Japanese Buddhist art history, especially sculpture, prints, and bells

Second language acquisition including acquisition of Japanese, Chinese and English in adult learners

Comparative & Cross-Cultural Management, International Management, International Business, Business Practices in China, Managing Internationally, International Business Strategy

Chinese art history, Daoist studies, history of collecting and museums

Japanese sencha tea ceremony, design, Buddhist art, & Chinese material culture in Japan

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

Furniture-based sculpture; Asian materials

Japanese Studies Librarianship

20th-century and contemporary Japanese art history

Comparative politics, Chinese politics, rural political development

Work and organizations, race and ethnicity, Korea studies, and quantitative methodology

Distributional welfare affect and reasons for low fertility in aging East Asian countries
Korean as a foreign/heritage language education and Korean female students in U.S. higher education

Corporate governance in East Asia and institutional theory

Tibetan language and culture

Mapping and analysis of water resources in East Asia

Chinese linguistics, second language acquisition, the acquisition and instruction of Chinese

Religion in Japan; popular religious expression and ritual in the Tokugawa period

Social cognition and social perception, influences of social contexts on judgments and decisions, cross-cultural comparisons

Anime and manga studies, Japanese survival horror video games

Chinese narrative from earliest times to the end of the imperial era

Material culture of the Tang dynasty, especially calligraphy and Buddhist sculpture

Building thermal and material scienes laboratory, sustainable building laboratory, energy efficient buildings, China.

Acquisition of languages including Japanese, Chinese and English in children and adults

Interracial marriage, sociology of Japan, Japanese culture, Asian military wives and globalization in East Asia

Japanese language pedagogy, Japanese language acquisition, Japanese language processing, and Japanese as a heritage language

Visual Art, Contemporary Art, Printmaking, Japanese Woodblock Printing, Lithography

Chinese language teaching, Chinese grammar and Chinese pedagogy

Traditional Japanese culture especially foodways and East Asian culinary heritage

Digital media, international communication, civic engagements, South Korea, East Asia

The social, cultural and psychological aspects of architecture, urbanism, & heritage conservation in China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Korea as a heritage language, literacy practices of Korean-American immirant communities

Art and archaeology of early northeast Asia

History, literature, religions, and art history of Korea

Gender, sexuality, subjectivity, labor, class, capitalism, cultural anthropology, feminist theory, Japan

Tectonic development of the Himalayas and Tibet, active faults and earthquake geology

Global communication, digital technology, news media, East and Southeast Asia

Early Chinese paleography, language and culture; Chinese language teaching

Latin American and Ecuadorian art & popular music, identity, nationalism, ballroom dancing in China

Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, Chinese cinema, youth culture, and gender studies

Korean Studies, anthropology and folklore, ritual and festivals, tourism, heritage studies, regional and national identity issues, happiness studies, as well as modern and contemporary Korean history

International relations, political economy, East Asian politics, Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations

Phonology, phonetics, as well as psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic processing of tones in Chinese

Cultural values, age stereotypes, advertising, media effects, and intergenerational communication in China

Strategic management, corporate strategy; expertise in China

Educational reforms, education policy, implications of technology and globalization on education, China, East Asian education systems