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Faculty Members Available for Serving as Chair of Special Committees

East Asia

Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Director, Religious Studies Program
East Asian Religions; Buddhism

Associate Professor, Government
International Relations, Asian security, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese politics

Professor, History
Chinese foreign relations, Chinese-US relations

Professor, History
Chinese History; modern China - 1644 to present; political, social, economic, & intellectual

Professor, Asian Studies
Modern Japanese Literature and Film

Professor, Anthropology
Chinese & SEA borderlands and indigenous peoples

Professor, Asian Studies
Modern Chinese Literature

Professor, History
Modern Japanese History; Japanese intellectual history

Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Japanese Religions

Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
modern Chinese literature and intellectual thought
Professor, Economics
Economic Systems; economic development and planning - China

Assistant Professor, Government
Japanese politics, political allegiance and alienation, mass political behavior and protest politics, gender and social welfare policy, political socialization

Robin McNeal (On Leave Fall 2007)
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Chinese History, Language, & Literature

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Anthropology of knowledge, culture of capitalism, social studies of finance; Japan

Professor, Sociology
Sociology - China

Associate Professor, History of Art
Chinese art history

Lorraine Paterson (On Leave Fall 2007)
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Vietnamese & Chinese intellectual history

Professor, Anthropology; Law
Feminist anthropology, anthropology of science, gender issues in the Pacific; Japan

Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Chinese history (Ming intellectual history)

Naoki Sakai (On Leave Fall 2007)
Professor, Asian Studies
Japanese Literature and History (Tokugawa period)

Professor, Anthropology
Social Anthropology, Political Economy, Symbolic Systems, Ideology, Social Organization (China)

Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Korean modern literature and literary theory, early 20th century civil society, linguistic & cultural movements

Ding Xiang Warner (On Leave Spring 2008)
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Pre-modern China

Professor, Linguistics
Japanese & Korean linguistics

Professor Emeriti

Karen Brazell
Professor, Asian Studies
Premodern Japanese Literature and Theater



South Asia

Associate Professor, Asian Studies
South Asian religions; Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia; Pali and Sinhalese literature; religion, colonialism and nationalism; South Asian Islam.

Professor, Develoment Sociology
Rural Sociology

Assistant Professor, History
modern South Asian, gender, colonialism

Daniel Gold (On Leave Fall 2007)
Professor, Asian Studies
South Asian Religions

Professor, Government
Comparative Politics, South Asia; political economy; development, environmental politics

Professor, Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, Shamanism, ritual, myth; Himalayas, South Asia

Professor, Government
Feminism; women's movements and state policies; Indian politics: gender and ethnicity

Professor, Industrial and Labor Relations
Economic Development and Industrial Relations

Professor, Human Development & Family Studies
South Asian Language Development and Linguistics

Professor, Anthropology
Sex and Gender, Symbolic Anthropology, life histories, Himalayan South Asia

Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Sanskrit, South Asian religious and intellectual history

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Anthropology



Southeast Asia

Professor, Johnson Graduate School of Management
Southeast Asian Studies; Finance

Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Southeast Asian Studies; Government

Associate Professor, Linguistics
Southeast Asian Linguistics

Professor, Anthropology
Chinese & SEA borderlands and indigenous peoples

Associate Professor, Music
Southeast Asian music; socio-cultural construction of music genres.

Professor, Industrial and Labor Relations
Economic Development and Industrial Relations

Associate Professor, History
Southeast Asian History

Associate Professor, History of Art
Gender Studies, Colonialism, Landscape, and the Human Body and Material Culture (Indonesia)

Associate Professor, History
Modern Southeast Asia

Professor, Asian Studies
Vietnamese Studies

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
International development, NGOs, political economy of Southeast Asia

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Southeast Asian Anthropology

Associate Professor, Development Sociology
Rural Sociology - Social Change and Gender Relations

Professor Emeriti

Professor, Anthropology
Religion, Symbolic Anthropology, Political Anthropology, Southeast Asia

Updated 06/06/2008 by kp16