Faculty by Area of Expertise: East Asian Studies at IU: East Asian Studies Center: Indiana University

East Asian Studies at IU

Faculty by Area of Expertise

Faculty by Area of Expertise
Faculty by Regional Specialty

Anthropology

Sara Friedman
Assistant 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.

Marvin Sterling
Assistant 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.

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

Central Eurasian Studies

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

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.

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.

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
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.

Lin Zou
Assistant Professor, EALC
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Areas: Comparative literature; modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film; classical Chinese aesthetics; late imperial Chinese literature.

Criminal Justice

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.

East Asian Languages and Culture (EALC)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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
Assistant 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.

Heidi Ross
Professor, Education; Adjunct Professor, EALC
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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Education

Sheena Choi
Assistant 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.

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
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Areas: Comparative and international education; East Asian schooling; Chinese secondary schooling; gender and schooling.

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, FINA
Education: M.F.A., University of Houston
Research Areas: International photographer.

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

Judith A. Stubbs
Pamela Buell Curator of Asian Art, IU Art Museum; Assistant Professor, Art History
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
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.

Foreign Languages

Yoshiko Green
Lecturer, IU South Bend, Foreign Languages
Education: M.S., Indiana University, South Bend
Research Areas: Japanese.

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

Gender Studies

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.

History

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

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

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.

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.

Yu Shen
Visiting Assistant 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

Law

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

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.

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

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.

Public and Environmental Affairs

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.

Religious Studies

Sociology

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.

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.