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Program in East Asia: Regional Studies


Degree Programs: Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Chair: Myron L. Cohen, Ph.D.
914 International Affairs
Tel: 212.854.1739


Faculty

Paul Anderer:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1979
Interests: Modern Japanese fiction, film, literary criticism and theory
Charles Armstrong:
Associate Professor (History), Ph.D., Chicago, 1994
Interests: Modern Korean history; contemporary Korean history and historiography, international history of East Asia; and ideology and international relations in the Asia Pacific; issues of ethnicity and boundary making in Northeast Asia
Weihong Bao:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 2006
Interests: Contemporary Chinese cinema
Robert Barnett:
Senior Lecturer in Modern Tibetan Studies; Program Coordinator and Lecturer, Ph.D., Cambridge, 2003
Interests: Modern Tibetan studies
Lisbeth Kim Brandt:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1996
Interests: Twentieth-century Japanese cultural and social history
Myron L. Cohen:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1967
Interests: Culture and society
Gerald L. Curtis:
Burgess Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., Columbia, 1969
Interests: Comparative politics, Japanese politics, U.S. - Japan relations
Carol Gluck:
George Sansom Professor of History, Director of Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Ph.D., Columbia, 1977
Interests: Modern Japanese history, international relations, World War II, history-writing and public memory in Asia and the West
Jahyun Kim Haboush:
King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies, Ph.D., Columbia, 1978
Interests: Korean studies; pre-modern and early modern Korean history
Shigeo Hirano:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2003
Interests: Comparative politics between the US and Japan
Theodore Hughes:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., California (Los Angeles), 2002
Interests: Collaboration and occupation in immediate postliberation Korea, representation of the body in colonial-period proletarian literature, Cold War authoritarianism and devolopmentalism, national division
Marilyn Ivy:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1988
Interests: Modern Japanese anthropology
Merit Janow:
Professor in the Practice of International Economic Law and International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Co-Director, APEC Study Center, J.D., Columbia, 1988
Interests: International trade and competition law and policy
Dorothy Ko:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Stanford, 1989
Interests: Chinese cultural history, gender, body and material culture
Eugenia Lean:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., California (Los Angeles), 2001
Interests: Modern Chinese history, gender, history of science, urban studies, and consumer culture
Benjamin Liebman:
Professor of Law, Columbia School of Law; Director, Center for Chinese Legal Studies, J.D., Harvard, 1998
Interests: The Chinese legal system
Xiaobo Lü:
Professor, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1994
Interests: East Asian political economy
Adam McKeown:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1997
Interests: Modern trans-Pacific history, with an emphasis on the Chinese diaspora
Curtis J. Milhaupt:
Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law and Legal Institutions; Director, Center for Japanese Legal Studies, J.D., Columbia, 1989
Interests: Comparative financial regulation, law
Rosalind Morris:
Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 1994
Interests: Modernity in Thailand, ritual and performance in cultural order, the effects of mass reproduction techniques on visuality
Andrew J. Nathan:
Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., Harvard, 1971
Interests: Contemporary Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy, comparative political participation and political culture
Nangsal Tenzin Norbu:
Lecturer, Tibet University, 1990
Interests: Modern Tibetan language
George R. Packard:
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Tufts
Interests: History of U.S.-Japan relations from 1853 to the present
Hugh T. Patrick:
R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business; Director, Center on Japanese Economy and business; Co-Director, APEC Study Center
Interests: U.S.-Japan economic and business relations, Asia Pacific economic relations, structural adjustments in the Japanese economy
John Pemberton:
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell, 1989
Interests: Modern Indonesian cultural anthropology
Gregory M. Pflugfelder:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1996
Interests: Early modern and modern Japanese history, historical constructions of gender and sexuality in Japan
Carl Riskin:
Senior Research Scholar, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley), 1969
Interests: Income distribution in China; effects of development strategy on poor regions and social strata; problems of economic reform
Dan Rosen:
Adjunct Associate Professor
Interests: International economics, Chinese economics
Morris Rossabi:
Adjunct Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1970
Interests: Early Chinese and Inner Asian history
Wei Shang:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1994
Interests: Late Imperial fiction, Qing materials, classical chinese
Haruo Shirane:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1983
Interests: Pre and early modern Japanese literature
Henry D. Smith:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1970
Interests: Urban and cultural history of 19-century Japan
Tomi Suzuki:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1988
Interests: Modern Japanese literature
Gray Tuttle:
Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Ph.D., Harvard, 2002
Interests: Early 20th century views of Tibetan Buddhism in China
David Weinstein:
Carl Sumner Shoup Professor of Japanese Economy, Ph.D., Michigan, 1991
Interests: International economics, Japanese economy
Guobin Yang:
Associate Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., New York, 2000
Interests: contemporary Chinese culture and society, voluntary associations, new media, popular protests
Chun-Fang Yu:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia
Interests: History of Chinese Buddhism, living traditions in daily life of Chinese Buddhism, Buddhism and gender, Buddhist nuns in contemporary Taiwan
Madeleine Zelin:
Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Department of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director, Columbia East Asian National Resource Center, Ph.D., California (Berkeley), 1979
Interests: Modern Chinese social and economic history, early modern business, the meaning of "modernity" in early 20th century China, translation of 20th century Chinese literature




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