Asian Studies Faculty and Staff

Asian Studies Faculty

Zhiru Ng
Zhiru Ng
Professor of Religious Studies; Chair of Religious Studies; Coordinator of Asian Studies
Joanne Nucho
Joanne Nucho
Associate Professor of Anthropology; Chair of Anthropology; Coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies
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Prof. Tahir Andrabi
Tahir R. Andrabi
Stedman-Sumner Professor of Economics; On leave for the 2023-2024 academic year
Prof. Allan Barr
Allan H. Barr
Professor of Chinese; On leave Fall 2023
Eileen J. Cheng
Eileen J. Cheng
Professor of Chinese; Faculty Director of Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations
Angelina Chin
Angelina Chin
Associate Professor of History; Chair of History
Pey-Yi Chu
Pey-Yi Chu
Associate Professor of History
Prof. Peter Flueckiger
Peter A. Flueckiger
Professor of Japanese; Coordinator of the Japanese Section
Prof. Sharon Hou
Sharon Shih-Jiuan Hou
Associate Professor of Chinese; On leave Spring 2024
Kyoko Kurita
Kyoko Kurita
Professor of Japanese; Chair of Asian Languages and Literatures
Jun Lang
Jun Lang
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures
Tom Le
Tom Le
Associate Professor of Politics
Stephen Marks
Stephen Marks
Elden Smith Professor of Economics; Coordinator of International Relations
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Kun Nie
Visiting Instructor in Asian Languages and Literatures
Maddalena Poli
Maddalena Poli
Rand Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies
Gibb Schreffler
Gibb Schreffler
Associate Professor of Music; Ethnomusicology; Applied Music Coordinator
Hung Cam Thai
Hung Cam Thai
Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies; Chair of Sociology
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Ousmane Traoré
Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré
Associate Professor of History and Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies; On leave Fall 2023
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Daniel Watling
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Heather Williams
Heather L. Williams
Professor of Politics; On leave Spring 2024
Prof. Ken Wolf
Kenneth Baxter Wolf
Chair of the Faculty; Professor of Classics and John Sutton Miner Professor of History; Coordinator of Late Antique-Medieval Studies
Prof. Jianhsin Wu
Jianhsin Wu
Emerita Adjunct Professor of Chinese
Feng Xiao
Feng Xiao
Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures; Coordinator of the Chinese Section
Samuel Yamashita
Samuel H. Yamashita
Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History; On leave Spring 2024
YanShuo Zhang
Yanshuo Zhang
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures

Asian Studies Affiliated Faculty

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Emily Chao
Professor of Anthropology (Pitzer)
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Minju Kim
Professor of Korean (CMC)
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Albert Park
Associate Professor and Co-Principal Investigator EnviroLab Asia (CMC)
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Seo Young Park
Associate Professor of Anthropology (Scripps College)

Asian Studies Emeriti Faculty

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David Elliott
Emeritus Professor of Politics
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Robert Woods
Emeritus Professor of History
Prof. Zayn Kassam
Zayn Kassam
Emerita Professor of Religious Studies

Asian Studies Staff

Cecilia Owen
Cecilia Owen
Academic Coordinator of International Relations