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Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Chair: Robert Hymes, Ph.D.
407 Kent
Tel: 212.854.2574
Fax: 212.678.8629


Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Graduate Student Teaching: Haruo Shirane, Ph.D.
420 Kent Hall
Tel: 212.854.5031
Fax: 212.678.8629


M.A. Advisor: Theodore Hughes, Ph.D.
506 Kent Hall
Tel: 212.854.8545
Fax: 212.678.8629


Undergraduate Advisor: David Lurie, Ph.D.
500A Kent Hall
Tel: 212.854.5316


Dissertation Sponsors

Paul Anderer:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1979
Interests: Japanese literature, film, and criticism
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Michael Como:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 2000
Interests: Japanese religion
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wm. Theodore deBary:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia, 1953
Interests: Chinese and Japanese thought; Confucianism and human rights
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wiebke Denecke:
Assistant Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Harvard, 2004
Interests: Premodern Chinese and Japanese literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bernard Faure:
Professor, Ph.D., Paris, 1984
Interests: Japanese religions, East Asian Buddhism
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jahyun Kim Haboush:
King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies, Ph.D., Columbia, 1978
Interests: Korean studies; pre-modern and early modern Korean history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robert Hymes:
Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1979
Interests: Medieval and early modern Chinese social and cultural history (Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties); anthropological approaches to history; elites; religion; print culture; social and cultural networks.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dorothy Ko:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Stanford, 1989
Interests: Chinese cultural history, gender, body and material culture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Eugenia Lean:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., California (Los Angeles), 2001
Interests: Modern Chinese history, gender, history of science, urban studies, and consumer culture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Feng Li:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Chicago, 2001
Interests: Chinese history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lydia Liu:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1990
Interests: Modern Chinese literature, postcolonial empire studies, critical translation theory, new media, and comparative studies of writing and media technology across cultures and civilizations.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Lurie:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 2001
Interests: Japanese literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Max Moerman:
Assistant Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Stanford
Interests: East Asian religion and Asian studies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gregory M. Pflugfelder:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1996
Interests: Early modern and modern Japanese history, historical constructions of gender and sexuality in Japan
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wei Shang:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1994
Interests: Late Imperial fiction, Qing materials, classical chinese
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Haruo Shirane:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1983
Interests: Pre and early modern Japanese literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Henry D. Smith:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1970
Interests: Urban and cultural history of 19-century Japan
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Tomi Suzuki:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1988
Interests: Modern Japanese literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wendy Swartz:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., California (Los Angeles), 2003
Interests: Chinese literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Guobin Yang:
Associate Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., New York, 2000
Interests: contemporary Chinese culture and society, voluntary associations, new media, popular protests
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Chun-Fang Yu:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1973
Interests: Living traditions in daily life Chinese Buddhism, Buddhist nuns in contemporary Taiwan
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
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
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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