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East Asian Studies at IU

Faculty by Academic Department

• Faculty by Academic Department
• Faculty by Geographic Concentration (China, Japan, or Korea)

Anthropology

Sara Friedman
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Gender Studies, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Areas: Gender and sexuality; marriage and kinship; socialism; cultural and political change; subjectivity; gender and labor politics; ethnicity; China and Taiwan.

Ling-yu Hung
Assistant Professor, Anthropology (Archeology)
Education: Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis Research
Areas: craft specialization, ceramics, ritual practice, cultural interaction, social complexity, geoarchaeology and GIS; China and Taiwan

Marvin Sterling
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research Areas: Japan; Jamaica; race; cultural globalization; identity; performance; human rights.

Business

Marc Dollinger
Lawrence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business Administration, Chair of Undergraduate Programs, Business
Education: Ph.D., Lehigh University
Research Areas: Chinese management practices; value of a good reputation; minority business enterprise; development of cooperative strategies in fragmented industries.

Jeffrey Goddin
Lecturer, Business
Education:
Research Areas: International communication strategies.

Rick Harbaugh
Associate Professor, Business
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research Areas: Chinese economy; economics of communication; Chinese characters; Internet economy.

Dan Li
Associate Professor, Business
Education: Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Research Areas: Management of Multinational Enterprises; International Strategic Alliances; Internationalization Process.

W. Travis Selmier II
Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor, Business
Education: M.B.A., Indiana University
Research Areas: Interaction of politics and international finance; development of international financial institutions; how language, culture and conflict influence trade and economic diplomacy (focus on Asia).

Munirpallam Venkataramanan
Professor, Business
Education: Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Research Areas: Logistics.

Central Eurasian Studies

Christopher Atwood
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: Mongolian language and history; Chinese history.

Christopher I. Beckwith
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: Central Eurasian history; early history of Central Eurasian interation with peripheral cultures; Old Chinese reconstruction; Old Tibetan epigraphy; Koguryo language; comparative-historical and typological linguistics of East Asian languages.

Gardner Bovingdon
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Areas: Comparative and Chinese politics; political economy; ethnic politics; qualitative research methodologies.

Edward Lazzerini
Academic Specialist, Central Eurasian Studies; Adjunct Professor, History; Director, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center; Director, Denis Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas: Sino-Russian relations, 16th-20th centuries; comparative study of early modern empires (Russian, Chinese, Ottoman, and Spanish); Turkic peoples under Russian and Chinese imperial rule; Eurasian commentary traditions and modernity; intellectual developments within Turkic communities of Central Eurasia, 18th-20th centuries.

Elliot Sperling
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: Tibetan language and culture; Sino-Tibetan relations.

Communication & Culture

Stephanie DeBoer
Assistant Professor, Communication and Culture; Adjunct Assistant Professor, 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.

Yuri Obata
Assistant Professor, IU South Bend, Communication Arts
Education: Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder
Research Areas: Mass communication theories; mass communication law; Japanese popular culture and mass media.

Greg Waller
Professor, Communication and Culture
Education: Ph.D., State University of New York
Research Areas: Entertainment and culture; Japanese film; representation of Japan in the United States.

Comparative Literature

Edith L. Sarra
Associate Professor, EALC; Adjunct Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas: Japanese language; classical Japanese literature; feminist literary theory.

Kevin Tsai
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature; Adjunct Assistant Professor, EALC
Research Areas: Traditional Chinese fiction and drama; gender and genre; Greek and Roman literature; East-West comparative studies.

East Asian Languages and Culture (EALC)

Yingling Bao
Lecturer, EALC
Education: M.A., Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Research Areas: Chinese pedagogy; cognitive linguistics; sociolinguistics.

Laurel L. Cornell
Associate Professor, Sociology, Gender Studies, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research Areas: Sociology of Japan; East Asian social and historical demographies.

Robert Eno
Associate Professor, EALC; Adjunct Associate Professor, Philosophy
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Chinese philosophy; early Chinese history.

Sara Friedman
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Gender Studies, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Areas: Gender and sexuality; marriage and kinship; socialism; cultural and political change; subjectivity; gender and labor politics; ethnicity; China and Taiwan.

Heon Joo Jung
Assistant Professor, EALC; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Political Science
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research Areas: Korean political economy; political economy and international relations of East Asia; politics of economic and financial reform; comparative politics.

Gregory J. Kasza
Professor, EALC, Political Science
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Research Areas: Modern Japanese politics and business; Japanese social institutions and mass media.

Scott Kennedy
Associate Professor, EALC, Political Science; Director, Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business
Education: Ph.D., George Washington University
Research Areas: Comparative politics; contemporary Chinese and East Asian politics and political economy.

Keiko Kuriyama
Assistant Professor, Japanese Language Program Coordinator, EALC
Education: Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Research Areas:  Japanese linguistics; Japanese language and pedagogy; second language acquisition.

Hyo Sang Lee
Associate Professor, Korean Language Program Coordinator, EALC
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research Areas: Korean language and linguistics; comparative study of East Asian languages; discourse-pragmatic and cognitive approach to grammar.

Charles Lin
Assistant Professor, EALC
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Research Areas: Psycholinguistics, Chinese linguistics, sentence processing, linguistic anthropology.

Vivian Ling
Professor, EALC; Director, Chinese Flagship Center; Director, Center for Chinese Language Pedagogy
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Chinese linguistics and pedagogy; contemporary China.

Julia Chia-li Luo
Lecturer and Associate Coordinator of Chinese Language Program, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: Chinese religious and cultural history; inculturation of Christianity in China.

Manling Luo
Assistant Professor, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
Research Areas: Pre-modern Chinese narratives; Chinese literati culture; traditional Chinese literature; women and gender studies.

Misako Matsubara
Lecturer, EALC
Education: M.A., Indiana State University, Michigan State University
Research Areas: Japanese pedagogy; language variation and change; gender and language.

Ethan Michelson
Associate Professor, Sociology, EALC
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas: Chinese society; law and society; work; occupations and professions; development.

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..

Michael Robinson
Professor, EALC
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas: Intellectual and cultural history of modern Korea; Japanese colonialism; popular culture; transnational studies.

Heidi Ross
Professor, Education; Adjunct Professor, EALC; Director, East Asian Studies Center
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Comparative and international education; East Asian schooling; Chinese secondary schooling; gender and schooling.

Richard Rubinger
Professor, EALC; Adjunct Professor, History, Education
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Areas: Japanese history and society; education and literacy.

Edith L. Sarra
Associate Professor, EALC; Adjunct Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas: Japanese language; classical Japanese literature; feminist literary theory.

Aaron Stalnaker
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Education: Ph.D., Brown University
Research Areas: Comparative religious ethics; philosophy of religions (theistic, non-theistic, and comparative); Chinese thought; Christian thought; moral philosophy; theories of religion.

Henghua Su
Assistant Professor, Chinese Language Program Coordinator, EALC
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Areas: ChineseLinguistics and Language Pedagogy; Second Language Acquisition

Michiko Suzuki
Associate Professor, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Areas: Modern Japanese literature; fiction; literary genre and criticism; cultural and gender studies; identity construction.

Natsuko Tsujimura
Professor and Chair, EALC; Adjunct Professor, Linguistics
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Research Areas: Japanese language; linguistics and language pedagogy; theoretical linguistics.

Sue M. C. Tuohy
Senior Lecturer, Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Affiliated Faculty, EALC, International Studies
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: East Asian music and folklore; Chinese culture; ethnicity, nationalism and tourism.

Tie Xiao
Assistant Professor, EALC
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas: Modern Chinese literature, visual culture, and intellectual history.

Education

Sheena Choi
Associate Professor, IU-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Education
Education: Ph.D., State University of New York
Research Areas: Comparative and international education, Korean education, sociology of education.

Yonjoo Cho
Assistant Professor, Department of Instructional Systems Technology, Education
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Research Areas: Trends and issues in South Korean action learning practice.

Masato Ogawa
Assistant Professor, IU Kokomo, Education
Education: Ed.D., University of Georgia
Research Areas: Secondary education; learning and teaching of history; historical perspectives on issues facing international teachers in U.S. K-12 classrooms; comparative textbook analyses and Japanese education.

Heidi Ross
Professor, Education; Adjunct Professor, EALC; Director, East Asian Studies Center
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Comparative and international education; East Asian schooling; Chinese secondary schooling; gender and schooling.

Richard Rubinger
Professor, EALC; Adjunct Professor, History, Education
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Areas: Japanese history and society; education and literacy; Japanese language.

Joel Wong
Associate Professor, Counseling Psychology, School of Education
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Research Areas: East Asian mental health.

Mieko Yamada
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
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.

Fine Arts

Osamu James Nakagawa
Associate Professor, Fine Arts
Education: M.F.A., University of Houston
Research Areas: International photographer.

Rowland Ricketts
Assistant Professor, Fine Arts
Education: M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art
Research Areas: Japanese indigo production; natural dyes.

Judith A. Stubbs
Adjunct Assistant Professor/Curator/Research Scholar, IU Art Museum; 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.

Folklore & Ethnomusicology

Michael Dylan Foster
Associate Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Areas: Japanese folklore, literature, and film; monster and supernatural studies; legend, popular culture; ritual and festival; tourism.

Sue M. C. Tuohy
Senior Lecturer, Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Affiliated Faculty, EALC, International Studies
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: East Asian music and folklore; Chinese culture; ethnicity, nationalism and tourism.

Foreign Languages

Yoshiko Green
Lecturer, IU South Bend, World Language Studies
Education: M.S., Indiana University, South Bend
Research Areas: Japanese.

David Stringer
Assistant Professor, Second Language Studies
Education: Ph.D., University of Durham
Research Areas: Acquisition; language and spatial cognition; Japanese linguistics.

Reiko Yonogi
Professor, IUPUI, World Languages and Cultures
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois
Research Areas: Japanese language and literature; comparative literature.

Gender Studies

Laurel L. Cornell
Associate Professor, Sociology, Gender Studies, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research Areas: Sociology of Japan; East Asian social and historical demographies.

Sara Friedman
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Gender Studies, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Areas: Gender and sexuality; marriage and kinship; socialism; cultural and political change; subjectivity; gender and labor politics; ethnicity; China and Taiwan.

Jean C. Robinson
Professor, Political Science; Affiliated Professor, EALC, Gender Studies; Adjunct Professor, West European Studies, Kinsey Institute, Russian and East European Institute
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Areas: Modern Chinese politics and education; comparative women and family.

Edith L. Sarra
Associate Professor, EALC; Adjunct Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas: Japanese language; classical Japanese literature; feminist literary theory.

Michiko Suzuki
Associate Professor, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Areas: Modern Japanese literature; fiction; literary genre and criticism; cultural and gender studies; identity construction.

History

Xiaoqing Diana Chen-Lin
Associate Professor, IU Northwest, History and Philosophy
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas: History of China and modern East Asia.

Nicholas Cullather
Full Professor, History
Education: Ph.D., University of Virginia
Research Areas: U.S. foreign relations; Southeast Asia.

Edward Lazzerini
Academic Specialist, Central Eurasian Studies; Adjunct Professor, History; Director, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center; Director, Denis Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas: Sino-Russian relations, 16th-20th centuries; comparative study of early modern empires (Russian, Chinese, Ottoman, and Spanish); Turkic peoples under Russian and Chinese imperial rule; Eurasian commentary traditions and modernity; intellectual developments within Turkic communities of Central Eurasia, 18th-20th centuries.

Yosuke Nirei
Assistant Professor, IU South Bend, History
Education: Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Research Areas: Japanese history (from the late Tokugawa period); religion and empire; U.S.-Japan, East Asian relations; liberalism in Japan; comparative social, political, and cultural thought in Japan and the West.

Scott O’Bryan
Associate Professor, EALC, History
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Areas: Twentieth-century Japan; economic nationalism; consumption and consumer culture; environmental history; peace thought and practice.

Michael Robinson
Professor, EALC
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas: Intellectual and cultural history of modern Korea; Japanese colonialism; popular culture; transnational studies.

Richard Rubinger
Professor, EALC; Adjunct Professor, History, Education
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Areas: Japanese history and society; education and literacy; Japanese language.

Jonathan Schlesinger
Assistant Professor, History
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas: Environmental history; consumption and commodities; race and ethnicity; comparative empires; early modernity; China and Inner Asia.

Dmitry Shlapentokh
Professor, IU South Bend, History
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas: Russia, Asia and China.

Yu Shen
Professor, IU Southeast, History
Education: Ph.D., University of London
Research Areas: Modern China; East Asian history.

Xin Zhang
Associate Professor, IUPUI History
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas: Modern Chinese history.

International Studies

Sue M. C. Tuohy
Senior Lecturer, Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Affiliated Faculty, EALC, International Studies
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: East Asian music and folklore; Chinese culture; ethnicity, nationalism and tourism.

Journalism

Joseph Coleman
Professor of Practice, Journalism
Education: M.I.A., Columbia University
Research Areas: International reporting and newswriting; reporting on East Asia; Aging workers in Japan, US and Europe.

Emily Metzgar
Assistant Professor, Journalism
Education: Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Research Areas: China, Japan, public diplomacy, social media, media and society.

Steven Raymer
Professor, Journalism
Education:
Research Areas: China, Japan, public diplomacy, social media, media and society.

Lars Willnat
Professor, Journalism
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: Political and cross-national media effects, public opinion formation, political media in Asia.

Law

Wan-Ning Bao
Associate Professor, IUPUI, Sociology
Education: Ph.D., Iowa State University
Research Areas: International and comparative criminology; crime and delinquency in China.

Joseph L. Hoffmann
Professor, Law
Education: J.D., University of Washington
Research Areas: Criminal law; Japanese law and society.

Ethan Michelson
Associate Professor, Sociology, EALC
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas: Chinese society; law and society; work; occupations and professions; development.

Carole Silver
Professor, Law; Director, Law School Survey of Student Engagement
Education: J.D., Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Research Areas: Globalization and the legal profession; East Asian legal education and professional regulation; legal education reform; trade in legal services.

Linguistics

Christopher I. Beckwith
Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: Tibetology (Tibetan Empire, Old Tibetan); Central Eurasian and East Asian linguistics and early history; Sinology (history and language of ancient and medieval China); linguistics (historical, typological, computational).

Yoshihisa Kitagawa
Associate Professor, Linguistics
Education: Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
Research Areas: Japanese linguistics; comparative syntax; interaction of morphology and syntax; syntax-semantics mapping.

Hyo Sang Lee
Associate Professor, Korean Language Program Coordinator, EALC
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research Areas: Korean language and linguistics; comparative study of East Asian languages; discourse-pragmatic and cognitive approach to grammar.

Charles Lin
Assistant Professor, EALC
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Research Areas: Psycholinguistics, Chinese linguistics, sentence processing, linguistic anthropology.

Natsuko Tsujimura
Professor, EALC; Adjunct Professor, Linguistics
Education: Ph.D., University of Arizona
Research Areas: Japanese language; linguistics and language pedagogy; theoretical linguistics.

Jing Wang
Assistant Professor, Director of the Chinese Program, World Languages and Cultures, IUPUI
Education: Ph.D., Florida State University
Research Areas: Second language acquisition, Chinese language pedagogy, computer assisted language learning, cultural studies.

Philosophy

Robert Eno
Associate Professor, EALC, Adjunct Associate Professor, Philosophy
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Chinese philosophy; early Chinese history.

Political Science

Gardner Bovingdon
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Areas: Comparative and Chinese politics; political economy; ethnic politics; qualitative research methodologies.

Heon Joo Jung
Assistant Professor, EALC; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Political Science
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research Areas: Korean political economy; political economy and international relations of East Asia; politics of economic and financial reform; comparative politics.

Jeffrey Hart
Professor, Political Science
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Areas: International politics; international politcal economy; politics of competition in high technology industries; politics and film.

Gregory J. Kasza
Professor, EALC, Political Science
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Research Areas: Modern Japanese politics and business; Japanese social institutions and mass media.

Scott Kennedy
Associate Professor, EALC, Political Science; Director, Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business
Education: Ph.D., George Washington University
Research Areas: Comparative politics; contemporary Chinese and East Asian politics/political economy.

Andrae M. Marak
Chairperson, Division of Humanities & Social Sciences, Governors State University
Education: Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Research Areas: International Political Economy, Transnational Crime, Gender, Social Construction of Identity.

Jean C. Robinson
Professor, Political Science; Affiliated Professor, EALC, Gender Studies; Adjunct Professor, West European Studies, Kinsey Institute, Russian and East European Institute
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Areas: Modern Chinese politics and education; comparative women and family.

Public and Environmental Affairs

Mathew Auer
Dean, Hutton Honors College, Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Research Areas: Advisor on a research project coding electronic posts to Weibo (the Chinese equivalent to Twitter)

Haeil Jung
Assistant Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas: Education reform, public pension and other social policy evaluations and changes in South Korea and Indonesia.

Public Health (& Tourism)

Joseph Chen
Associate Professor, School of Public Health
Education: Ph.D.,
Research Areas: Hospitality and tourism marketing, international tourism.

Kathy Gilbert
Professor, School of Public Health
Education: Ph.D.,
Research Areas: Bereavement; loss and grieving in the context of family; loss and meaning making; stress and resilience in the family; cross-national research; qualitative research.

Robert M. Goodman
Dean and Professor, School of Public Health
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Research Areas: Global health; cross-cultural competence; East Asian public health approaches.

Ka He
Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health
Education: Ph.D.,
Research Areas: Primary research interests involve diet and nutrients in relation to chronic diseases. Actively collaborates on research with colleagues in China, South Korea, and Japan.

Noy Kay
Associate professor, School of Public Health
Education: Ph.D.,
Research Areas: Cross-cultural studies in Asian countries, directs a summer faculty-led study class in China and Thailand.

Hsien-Chang Lin
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Global health; public health systems in East Asian countries; mental health policy; medication utilization; health outcomes research.

Dong-Chul Seo
Associate Professor, School of Public Health
Education: Ph.D.,
Research Areas: Policy and socio-ecological approach in obesity and addictive/risky behavior (tobacco and alcohol).

Religious Studies

Michael Ing
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas: Confucianism; Ritual Theory; Religious Ethics; Theories of Religion; Chinese Thought.

Heather Blair
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas: Religious cultures of pre-modern Japan, particularly lay religiosity, religious landscapes, and textual practices.

Julia Chia-li Luo
Lecturer and Associate Coordinator of Chinese Language Program, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: Chinese religious and cultural history; inculturation of Christianity in China.

Aaron Stalnaker
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Education: Ph.D., Brown University
Research Areas: Comparative religious ethics; philosophy of religions (theistic, non-theistic, and comparative); Chinese thought; Christian thought; moral philosophy; theories of religion.

Sociology

Arthur S. Alderson
Professor, Sociology
Education: Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill
Research Areas: Social inequality.

Wan-Ning Bao
Associate Professor, IUPUI, Sociology
Education: Ph.D., Iowa State University
Research Areas: International and comparative criminology; crime and delinquency in China.

Laurel L. Cornell
Associate Professor, Sociology, Gender Studies, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research Areas: Sociology of Japan; East Asian social and historical demographies.

Ethan Michelson
Associate Professor, Sociology, EALC
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas: Chinese society; law and society; work; occupations and professions; development.

Mieko Yamada
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
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.

Theatre & Drama

Jennifer Goodlander
Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Drama
Education: PhD, 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.