Sharon Carstens Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology and International Studies Teaching interests: Southeast Asia and China Research interest: Southeast Asian Chinese, Identities, Folk Religion, Transnational Media and Mandarin Bilingual Education.
Associated Faculty:
Barbara Brower Ph.D.
Professor of Geography Teaching interests: Geography of Central Asia. Research interests: Cultural resource management, Himalayas and Nepal.
Michele Gamburd Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Teaching interests: South Asian anthropology. Research interests: Gender, violence and transnationalism.
Priya Kapoor Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Communications Teaching interests: Intercultural Speech Communication. Research interests: Intercultural South Asian communications.
Larry Kominz Ph.D. Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures Teaching interests: Japanese languages, literature and translation
skills. Research interests: Traditional Japanese drama, literature and
film.
Gil Latz Ph.D. Professor of Geography and International Studies and Vice Provost of International Affairs Teaching interests: Geography of Japan and the Pacific Rim. Research interests: Political economy of East Asia and trade.
Junghee Lee Ph.D. Professor of Art History Teaching interests: East Asian art history and Buddhist art. Research interests: Buddhist art.
Jonathan Pease Ph.D.
Professor of Foreign Language and Literature Teaching interests: Chinese language. Research interests: Early Chinese literature and poetry.
Gerald Sussman Ph.D.
Professor of Urban Studies and Planning Teaching interests: Political economy of urban development, information systems, and media. Research interests: Political globalization, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and world systems analysis.
Ron Tammen Ph.D.
Director, Hatfield School of Government Teaching interests: World politics.
Sully Taylor Ph.D.
Professor of International Management, Business Administration Teaching interests: Business issues in Asia. Research interests: Human Resources issues in Japan.
Stephen Wadley Ph.D.
Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures Teaching interests: Chinese language, language history and modern literature.. Research interests: Historical Chinese linguistics, Altaic languages.
Linda Walton Ph.D.
Professor of History and International Studies Teaching interests: Chinese history. Research interests: Pre-modern China, social and intellectual
history and Modern East Asia.
Suwako Watanabe Ph.D.
Professor, Foreign Languages and Literature Teaching interests: Japanese discourse analysis and communication. Research interests: Cross-cultural communication.
Patricia Wetzel Ph.D. Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Director of Institute for Asian Studies Teaching interests: Japanese language, linguistics and pedagogy. Research interests: Japanese sociolinguistics and anthropology.
Dilafruz Williams Ph.D. Professor of Education Teaching interests: Philosophy of education, urban schools, environmental
education and cooperative learning.
