CEAS Faculty Alphabetical

International finance, corporate finance, contracting and governance; international expertise in capital markets in Japan and South America

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.

Architecture; health care design; relationship between culture, human behavior and physical environment

Econometrics, Financial Econometrics, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

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.

Pre-modern Japanese literature, Japanese language pedagogy

TESOL, second language/literacy education, academic and social identities of language learners and teachers, critical literacy, participatory action research, critical multiculturalism and technology-integrated instruction

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

International Collections

Chinese and Korean Studies Librarianship

Cross-cultural understanding and multicultural perspectives that enhance the science and practice of counseling psychology

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

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

Second language acquisition

Modern Japanese literature, play in Japan, translation, Japanese language pedagogy

International journalism

Patricia Graham received an M.A. in Asian art history and a Ph.D. in Japanese art history from the University of Kansas. After working as an Asian art curator in art museums and as a professor of Asian art and culture at several universities, she started her own business​ as an Asian art appraiser in 1993 and is currently one of the few Certified Appraisers of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean arts in the U.S. She continues to be affiliated with KU as an adjunct research associate at the Center for East Asian Studies. 

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 Librarianship

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

International & Interdisciplinary Studies - American 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

Political communication, consumer behavior, media credibility, international communication and race and gender issues

Tibetan language

Geographic Information Systems

 Chinese linguistics and second language acquisition

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

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

Research interests are interracial marriage, sociology of Japan, Asian military wives and globalization in East Asia.

Socio-cultural anthropology

Drawing, printmaking, painting, and installation art; Japanese woodblock printing methods

Chinese language

Premodern Japan; social and cultural history, especially traditional Japanese theater, foodways, and urban agriculture; Tibetan history

digital media, network analysis, public diplomacy, nation branding, public relations

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

Korean history

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

Geography and culture, Tibetan plateau

International communication, development communication and changes in newsroom practices amid the rise of technological innovations

Economic issues in East Asia

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

Specialization: Korean folklore, Korean language teaching, popular culture in East Asia
 

International Relations, Political Economy, East Asian Politics, Chinese Politics, U.S.-China Relations.

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