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Full & Associate Members

The EASC is composed of full members, faculty emeriti, and associate members.

Full members are Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures faculty and other IU faculty with substantial teaching and research interest in East Asia. In consultation with the university administration, full members determine the program objectives of the center, select center directors, and elect the executive committee.

Associate members are faculty at other institutions in the central Midwest region with regular teaching interests in East Asia or other scholars and professionals with strong interests in East Asia.

Full Members

With nearly 60 full members, EASC is a focal unit for all of the university’s East Asia-related faculty. Contact individual departments for current information, or use the Find People feature.

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: 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).

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Sara Friedman
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Gender Studies; Adjunct Assistant Professor, 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.

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

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

Alfred Ho
Associate Professor, IUPUI, School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: Chinese budgeting and administrative reforms; performance measurements and budgeting; e-government; state and local applied finance.

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

Ho-fung Hung
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research Areas: China’s modernity; concept of nationhood in China; globalization; nationalism; social movements; East Asian history and political economy.

Heon Joo Jung
Assistant Professor, EALC
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jennifer Li-chia Liu
Associate Professor, Chinese Language Program Coordinator, EALC; Director, Center for Chinese Language Pedagogy
Education: Ph.D., University of Oregon
Research Areas: Chinese language and pedagogy; second language acquisition; teaching technologies.

Wen-ling Diana Liu
Librarian, Herman B Wells Library, East Asian Collection
Education: M.L.S., Indiana University

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.

Klaus Mühlhahn
Professor, History; Adjunct Professor, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin
Research Areas: Modern Chinese social and cultural history; Chinese legal history; history of state violence; imperialism and colonialism in China.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Michael Robinson
Professor and Chair, 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; Japanese language.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Judith A. Stubbs
Pamela Buell Curator of Asian Art, 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.

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

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

Natsuko Tsujimura
Professor, 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 and International Studies
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: East Asian music and folklore; Chinese culture; ethnicity, nationalism, and tourism.

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.

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.

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

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

Faculty Emeriti

Jurgis Elisonas
Former Chair and Professor Emeritus, EALC; Professor Emeritus, History
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas: Pre-modern Japanese history; Japan’s international relations.

Eugene C. Eoyang
Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: Chinese literature; Chinese-Western literary relations; theory of translation.

Charles Greer
Professor Emeritus, Geography
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas: East Asian cultural and environmental geography; resource management and environment in China.

Yoshio Iwamoto
Former Chair and Professor Emeritus, EALC; Professor Emeritus, Comparative Literature
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Modern Japanese language, literature and culture; Japanese-Western literary relations; Japanese cinema; relationship between literature and politics.

Roger L. Janelli
Professor Emeritus, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Research Areas: Korean culture and social organization; East Asian ethnography; religion and political economy.

Sumie A. Jones
Professor Emerita, EALC, Comparative Literature
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas: Japanese language and literature; literary theory and aesthetics; literature and the arts.

Heejoon Kang
Professor, Business
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas: Business economics and public policy; Korean economic policies.

Susan Nelson
Former Chair and Professor Emerita, EALC; Professor Emerita, Fine Arts
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas: East Asian art history; Chinese painting.

Harold Pepinsky
Professor, Criminal Justice
Education: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; J.D., Harvard University
Research Areas: Alternative control systems; Chinese criminal justice; law and social control in China.

Roy W. Shin
Professor Emeritus, SPEA
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Research Areas: Comparative public and industrial policy, management and development in East Asia; bureaucracy in Korea.

Lynn A. Struve
Professor, History, EALC
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Traditional Chinese history; late imperial political and intellectual history; Chinese reference/source materials.

Yasuko Ito Watt
Professor Emerita, Japanese Language Coordinator, EALC
Education: Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University
Research Areas: Japanese language pedagogy; applied linguistics.

George M. Wilson
Former Director, East Asian Studies Center; Professor Emeritus, History and EALC
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Areas: Modern Japanese intellectual and cultural history; nationalism and revolution in Japan; East Asian history.

Margaret M. Yan
Professor Emerita, EALC
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Areas: Chinese language, linguistics and language pedagogy; Chinese phonology and dialectology.

Associate Members

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

Allen Anderson
Professor, IU South Bend, Criminal Justice
Education: Ph.D., Southern Illinois University
Research Areas: HIV/AIDS in China; HIV/AIDS policy in United States; criminal process in China.

Christopher Bondy
Assistant Professor, DePauw University, Sociology and Anthropology
Education: Ph.D., University of Hawaii
Research Areas: Japanese society; buraku issues; education; youth studies.

Michael Chambers
Associate Professor, Indiana State University, Political Science
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Areas: International relations; comparative politics; Asian politics.

Scott Clark
Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Anthropology
Education: Ph.D., University of Oregon
Research Areas: Japanese society; engineering ethics in Japan.

Joseph Coleman
Roy W. Howard Professional in Residence, Journalism
Education: M.I.A., Columbia University
Research Interests: International reporting and newswriting; reporting on East Asia; Brazilian immigrants of Japanese ancestry.

Elise Marie Edwards
Assistant Professor, Butler University, History and Anthropology
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Sport and Japanese modernity; women’s history; gender and sexuality in Asia; Japanese mass/popular culture.

Brian Flaherty
Coordinator, Center for Chinese Language Pedagogy
Education: M.A., Indiana University
Research Areas: Chinese pedagogy; Chinese martial arts.

Jacques Fuqua, Jr.
Director, Office of International Programs and Services, Indiana State University
Education: M.A., Indiana University
Research Areas: East Asian security issues.

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

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

Sally A. Hastings
Associate Professor, Purdue University, History
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Areas: Modern Japan; Japanese women’s issues.

Virginia Harper Ho
Visiting Assistant Professor, Law
Education: J.D., Harvard Law School; M.A., Indiana University
Research Areas: Corporate law; comparative corporate governance; Chinese legal reform; labor conflict in China.

John Howe
Assistant Director, Flagship Chinese Institute
Education: M.Ed., Texas A&M University
Research Areas: International higher education, student affairs administration, Chinese language pedagogy.

Margaret Key
Associate Director, East Asian Studies Center
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: Modern Japanese literature.

Huei-Ying Kuo
Assistant Professor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences
Education: Ph.D., SUNY-Binghampton
Research Areas: Chinese diasporas; modern China; colonialism in East and Southeast Asia; historical sociology.

Andrea Lee McElderry
Professor Emeritus, History, University of Louisville
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Chinese business history.

Taemin Kim Park
Associate Librarian, Library Technical Services
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: Korean literature; information retrieval; information storage.

Anne Prescott
Associate Director, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Education: Ph.D., Kent State University
Research Areas: Ethnomusicology; East Asian music and culture; Japanese music and culture; koto.

Shawn Reynolds
Associate Director, International Partnerships and Strategic Initiatives, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs
Education: M.A., Indiana University
Research Areas: University administration; East Asian trade.

Jim Robinson
Jane Weldon Myers Curator of Asian Art, Asian Department, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Asian art, primarily Chinese art.

Michael Roemer
Assistant Professor, Ball State University, Philosophy and Religious Studies
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Research Areas: Contemporary Japanese religions and Japanese ritual practices; religion and well-being.

Eiji Sekine
Associate Professor, Purdue University, Foreign Languages and Literatures
Education: Ph.D., Indiana University
Research Areas: Japanese literature.

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).

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

Doug Slaymaker
Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, Modern and Classical Languages, Literature, and Culture; Co-Director, Japan Studies Program
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Research Areas: Modern Japan; popular culture in Japan; postwar Japan.

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

Kenneth M. Swope
Assistant Professor, Ball State University, History
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Ming dynasty military; Chinese political and social history; early modern East Asian international relations; comparative military history.

John Teramoto
Associate Curator of Asian Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Japanese art history.

Paul Watt
Professor and Director of Asian Studies, DePauw University, Asian Studies/Religious Studies
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Areas: Religion and Japanese culture; Japanese Buddhism; East Asian religions.

Liana Zhou
Head of Library, Kinsey Institute
Education: M.L.S., Indiana University
Research Areas: Chinese literature; Asian sexuality.