Faculty in East Asian Studies
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Ryuichi Abé

EALC:  Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 130B

Research interests:  Buddhism and Japanese history, literature and culture.

495-4305

rabe@fas.

Business School:  Senior Fellow

Morgan Hall, Room 291

Research interests:  economic development, economic institutions, business government, business labor relations, globalization and political economy; Vietnam, China, and Cambodia.

 

495-6275

rabrami@hbs.

 


Laura Adams

Sociology:  Lecturer on Sociology

1730 Cambridge Street, Davis Center

Research interests:  post-communist societies

 

495-8672

ladams@fas.

 

Law School:  Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law

Pound Hall, Room 428

Research interests:  Chinese law and legal history; legal aspects of international trade and technology transfer.

 

495-4693

alford@law.

 

 

 

Anthropology:  Professor of Anthropology

William James Hall, Room 420

Research interests:  markets, globalization, and urban studies; economic institutions and exchange; food systems and food culture; fishing and the environment; space, place, and identity; Japan, East Asia, North Atlantic.

 

496-6539

bestor@wjh.

 


Mettursun Beydulla

 

EALC: Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations

2 Divinity Avenue

Research interests: late 19th and early 20th century culture and history of Xinjiang; Uyghur social and cultural history; historical relationship between Xinjiang and China; cultural survival and Uyghur identity.

 

 

beydulla@fas.

EALC:  Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 221

Research interests:  intellectual and social history; later imperial China.

 

495-8361

pkbol@fas.

 

 

EALC:  Professor of Japanese History 

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 35  

Research interests:  Tokugawa institutions; the Bakumatsu and Meiji Restoration period with emphasis on regionalism.

(on leave 2009-2010)

 

495-2797

bolitho@fas.

 

Sociology:  Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology

William James Hall, Room 580

Research interests:  gender stratification, labor market organization, education, economic sociology, and Japanese society.

 

494-9668

brinton@wjh.

 


Eileen Cheng-yin Chow

 

EALC: Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 229

Research interests:  modern and classical Chinese literature, film studies, Asian American and diaspora studies.

495-8374

echow@fas.

 


Albert Craig

EALC and History:  Harvard-Yenching Professor of History, Emeritus

1730 Cambridge Street, Room S253

Research interests:  Japanese thought during the transition from the late traditional to the modern era.

 

495-8372

acraig@fas.

 


Edwin A. Cranston 
                

EALC:  Professor of Japanese Literature

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 232 

Research interests:  classical literature of Japan, especially traditional poetic forms.

 

 

495-8362

cranston@fas.

 


Nara Dillon

 

EALC and Government: Lecturer on Social Studies

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 230

Research interests: contemporary Chinese politics and economics.

495-8366

ndillon@fas.


Carter J. Eckert

EALC:  Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History   

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 231  

Research interests:  late-nineteenth and twentieth century Korean socioeconomic history; historical aspects of Korean economic development.

 


495-8811

eckert@fas.

 


Mark C. Elliott

EALC:  Mark Schwarz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History 

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 134 A                                               

Research interests:  social, political, and institutional history of China and Inner Asia; Manchu and Mongolian languages.

 

496-5343

elliot3@fas.

 


Dennis Encarnation

Kennedy School:  Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

124 Mt. Auburn Street, Room 520-510

Research interests:  comparative business and government relations in Asia, especially Japan.



495-1103

dennis_encarnation@
harvard.edu

 


Margarita Estevez-Abe

Government:  Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy

1737 Cambridge Street, Room N210

Research interests:  Japanese politics; East Asian political economy; women and public policy; comparative welfare states; social theory.


496-3590

mestevez@wcfia.

 


Shengli Feng

EALC:  Professor of the Practice of Chinese Language

5 Bryant Street, Room 207

Research interests:  prosodic syntax, Chinese philology and Chinese teaching pedagogy.




495-2945

sfeng@fas.


Rowan K. Flad

Anthropology:  Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Peabody Museum, Room 57G

Research interests:  Chinese archaeology; emergence and persistence of complex societies in the Sichuan Basin; specialization; zooarchaeology.

 

495-1966

rflad@fas.


Andrew D. Gordon

 

History:  Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History

1730 Cambridge Street, Room S236

Research interests:  social and political history of modern Japan.

 

495-3220

agordon@fas.

 

 


Janet Gyatso

 

Divinity School:  Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies

Divinity Hall, Room 318

Research interests:  Buddhist history, ritual, and ideas, with a focus on Tibetan literature and practice.

 

384-8000

janet_gyatso@
harvard.edu

 


Helen Hardacre

EALC:  Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society

1730 Cambridge Street, Room S239

Research interests:  Japanese religious history.

496-5844

hardacre@fas.


Henrietta Harrison

 

History:  Professor of History

1730 Cambridge Street, Room S135

Research interests:  social and cultural history of 19th and 20th century China.

495-4064

hharris@fas.


William C. Hsiao

Public Health:  K.T. Li Professor of Economics

124 Mt. Auburn Street, Room 410S


Research interests:  health systems reform in China and Taiwan; comparative health systems; interaction between economic development and health care; community financing in China.

 

496-8850

hsiao@hsph.


C.-T. James Huang

Linguistics:  Professor of Linguistics

Boylston Hall, Room 307

Research interests:  syntactic theory; syntactic-semantics interface; Chinese linguistics.

384-7843

ctjhuang@fas.


Wilt L. Idema

EALC:  Professor of Chinese Literature

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 219

Research interests:  Chinese literature of the later dynasties; drama and performative literature.

496-6049

idema@fas.


Akira Iriye

History:  Charles Warren Research Professor of American History, Emeritus

Robinson Hall, Room 201

Research interests:  Chinese and Japanese relations; US-Asian relations.

496-5054

airiye@fas.


Wesley M. Jacobsen

 

EALC:  Professor of the Practice of Japanese Language

5 Bryant Street, Room 203

Research interests:  Japanese language and linguistics.

495-2982

jacobsen@fas.


Alastair Iain
Johnston

Government:  Governor James Albert Noe Sr. and Linda and Christel Noe Laine Kelley Professor of China in World Affairs

1737 Cambridge Street, Room N238

Research interests:  international relations theory; East Asian international relations; Chinese foreign policy.

496-3965

johnston@fas.


Adam L. Kern

EALC:  Associate Professor of Japanese Literature

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 233

Research interests:  popular culture and visual culture of early modern Japan.

495-8367

adamkern@fas.


Sun Joo Kim

EALC:  Professor of Korean History

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 230

Research interests:  premodern Korean history; social history of Choson.

495-7539

sjkim@fas.


William C. Kirby

History and Business School:  Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of History

1730 Cambridge Street, Room S128

Research interests:  modern Chinese political and economic history; history of the Republic of China and of the People’s Republic of China; Chinese foreign, economic and cultural relations.

 

495-5119

william_kirby@
harvard.edu


Arthur Kleinman

Anthropology:  Rabb Professor of Anthropology

William James Hall, Room 336

Research interests:  study of illness, health care and moral experience in the social transformation of Chinese society.

 

 

495-3846

kleinman@wjh.


Philip A. Kuhn

History and EALC:  Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Emeritus

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 217

Research interests:  political, social, and intellectual history of China, 1644-present.

495-4816

kuhn2@fas.


Shigehisa Kuriyama

EALC:  Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 134B

Research interests:  comparative cultural history; history of medicine and science.

496-0926

hkuriyam@fas.


Wai-yee Li


EALC:  Professor of Chinese Literature

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 228

Research interests:  late imperial China; early Chinese literature.

 

495-1608

wyli@fas.


Yukio Lippit

 

HAA:  Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture

Sackler Art Museum, Room 505

Research interests:  Japanese painting and calligraphy, Sino-Japanese artistic exchange.

 

495-3930

lippit@fas.


Felicity Lufkin

Folklore and Mythology:  Lecturer in Folklore and Mythology

9 Kirkland Place, Room 33

Research interests: modern Chinese art; folk art, popular art, and crafts; art and gender; exhibitions.

495-8369

lufkin@fas.


David McCann

EALC:  Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 216

Research interests:  history and translation of Korean poetry; Korean cultural formations; the literatures of war.

 

495-8378

dmccann@fas.


Melissa M. McCormick

EALC:  John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 211

Research interests:  pre-modern Japanese art; medieval painting, literature, and history; court culture.

 

496-2276

mccorm@fas.


Ian Miller

History:  Assistant Professor of History

CGIS South Building, Room S421

Research interests:  modern and imperial Japanese history; Japanese nationalism; history and culture in Japan's animal life.

 

384-7494

ijmiller@fas.


Katrina Moore

Anthropology:  Lecturer in Social Anthropology

William James Hall, Room 385

Research interests:  contemporary Japanese society; gender, aging and retirement in Japan.

 

496-8924

klmoore@fas.


Nicole D. Newendorp

Anthropology: Lecturer on Social Studies

59 Shepard Street, Hilles Library, Room 4

Research interests: immigration and citizenship; urban anthropology; Chinese family life, motherhood, and gender roles; voluntarism; aging; Chinese elderly in the US; China/Hong Kong

 

496-5819

newendor@fas.


Binh Ngo

EALC:  Preceptor in Vietnamese

5 Bryant Street, Room 201

 

 

496-2439

binhngo@fas


David R. Odo

 

Anthropology:  Lecturer on Anthropology

William James Hall, Room 360

Research interests: Chinese poetry; Chinese literary theory; comparative literature.

496-4454

odo@fas


Stephen Owen

 

EALC:  James Bryant Conant University Professor

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 220

Research interests:  Chinese poetry; Chinese literary theory; comparative literature.

495-8370

sowen@fas.


Dwight Perkins

Economics:  Harold Hitchings Burbank Research Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus

Littauer, Room M-12

Research interests:  economic development, especially in East and Southeast Asia; transitions of China and Vietnam to a market economy; role of the state in the development in East and Southeast Asia.

 

495-2110

dwight_perkins@
harvard.edu


Elizabeth J. Perry

 

Government:  Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government

1727 Cambridge Street, Room E-306

Research interests:  modern and contemporary China -- popular protest, grassroots politics.

 

496-4536

eperry@latte.


Susan J. Pharr

 

Government:  Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics

1730 Cambridge Street, Room S238

Research interests:  modern Japanese politics; Japan in international relations; Japan's relations with the Third World.

 

495-9992

spharr@hdc.


Michael J. Puett

 

EALC:  Professor of Chinese History

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 224

Research interests:  intellectual, cultural, and political history of early China.

 

495-8360

puett@fas.


J. Mark Ramseyer

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Law School:  Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies

Hauser Hall, Room 204

Research interests:  Japanese law; law and economics.

 

496-4878

ramseyer@law.


James Robson

EALC: Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 227

Research interests: history of Medieval Chinese Buddhism and Daoism; issues of sacred geography, local religious history, talismans, religious art, and theh istorical development of Chan/Zen Buddhism.

 

jrobson@fas.


Anthony Saich

 

Kennedy School:  Daewoo Professor of International Affairs

124 Mt. Auburn Street, Room 520N-508

Research interests:  the interplay between state and society in Asia, especially China, and their influence on policymaking and socio-economic development.

 

495-5713

anthony_saich@ksg.


John Schoeberlein


Anthropology and NELC:  Lecturer on Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

1730 Cambridge Street, Room 327

Research interests:  Central Asia and the Caucasus.

 

495-4338

schoeber@fas.


Michael A. Szonyi

 

EALC:  John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 231

Research interests:  Chinese family and lineage, popular religion, and historical and contemporary emigration.

 

495-8371

szonyi@fas.


Hue-Tam Ho Tai



History:  Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History

1730 Cambridge Street, Room S127

Research interests:  modern Vietnamese history; public memory; gender; religion and politics.

 

495-5456

hhtai@fas.


John Thomas

 

Kennedy School:  Lecturer in Public Policy

Taubman, Room 160

Research interests:  leadership and political analysis in managing policy change; public policy in Singapore.

 

495-1182

john_thomas@ksg.


Karen Thornber

 

Literature and Comparative Literature:  Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Dana Palmer House, Room 205

Research Interests: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese literatures and cultures; comparative literature; world literature; literature and the environment.

 

496-6244

thornber@fas


Xiaofei Tian


EALC:  Professor of Chinese Literature

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 211

Research interests:  early medieval Chinese literature and culture; late imperial Chinese fiction and drama; modern Chinese literature and culture.

495-7937

stian@fas.


Wei-ming Tu

 

EALC:  Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 35


Research interests:  Chinese intellectual history; Asian and comparative philosophy; East Asian religious thought; Confucian studies.

 

495-2754

wtu@fas.


Leonard W. J.
van der Kuijp



Sanskrit and Indian Studies:  Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies

1 Bow Street, Room 311

Research interests:  Tibetan history, culture and civilization, 13th-15th centuries; Tibetan Buddhism.

496-6871

vanderk@fas.


David Der-Wei Wang

EALC:  Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 130A

Research interests:  Chinese fiction of the late imperial and early modern period; the literary implications of the May Fourth Movement.

496-0925

dwang@fas.


Eugene Wang



HAA:  Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art

Sackler Art Museum, Room 506

Research interests:  history of Chinese art and visual culture.

 

495-0845

eywang@fas.


James L. Watson

Anthropology:  Harvard College Professor and Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society

William James Hall, Room 370

Research Interests:  Chinese kinship and social organization; ritual and political symbolism; social stratification; migration; historical ethnography; social aspects of food and eating; China, Taiwan and Britain.

495-1415

jwatson@wjh.


Martin K. Whyte

 

Sociology:  Professor of Sociology

William James Hall, Room 480

Research interests:  contemporary Chinese society; post-communist transitions.

 

495-9853

mwhyte@wjh.