ExEAS Teaching Collaborative

From 2002-2003 through 2006-2007, the Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) program offered one-year fellowships for recent Ph.D. graduates from a range of disciplines in East Asian studies. Each ExEAS Fellow developed and taught one undergraduate course at Columbia. Created with the advice of the experienced faculty in the ExEAS Teaching Collaborative, these courses emphasized cross-border, transregional, and interdisciplinary approaches and were designed for students who might otherwise not encounter East Asia in the course of their undergraduate careers.

The Expanding East Asian Studies (ExEAS) postdoctoral program concluded in July 2007.

ExEAS Postdoctoral Fellows

Jessamyn Abel (2004-2005)
Ph.D.: History, Columbia University
ExEAS Course: International Culture in East Asia (Offered Fall 2004)
Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Asian Studies, Penn State University

Jonathan Abel (2005-2006)
Ph.D.: Comparative Literature, Princeton University
ExEAS Course: The World of Banned Books (Offered Fall 2005)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Japanese, Penn State University

Daniel P. Buck (2002-2003)
Ph.D.: Geography, University of California, Berkeley
ExEAS Course: East Asian Capitalisms and Globalization (Offered Spring 2003)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oregon

Aya Ezawa (2002-2003)
Ph.D.: Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
ExEAS Course:Gender in Contemporary East Asia (Offered Fall 2002)
Current Position: University Lecturer in Sociology of Japan, Department of Japanese and Korean Studies, Leiden University

TJ Hinrichs (2003-2004)
Ph.D.: History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University
ExEAS Course: History and Ethnography of East Asian Martial Arts (Offered Spring 2004)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Cornell University

Joo-Youn Jung (2006-2007)
Ph.D.: Political Science, Stanford University
ExEAS Course: Globalization and the State in East Asia (Offered Spring 2007)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta

George Kallander (2005-2006)
Ph.D.: East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
ExEAS Course: Korea in East Asia and the World (Offered Spring 2006)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Syracuse University

Paize Keulemans (2004-2005)
Ph.D.: East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
ExEAS Course: Samurai, Cowboy, Shaolin Monk: National Myths and Transnational Forms in Literature and Film (Offered Spring 2005)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University

William Marotti (2003-2004)
Ph.D.: East Asian Languages and Civilization, University of Chicago
ExEAS Course: The Global 1960s as History (Offered Spring 2004)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Ian Miller, ExEAS Pedagogical Fellow (2004-2005)
Ph.D.: History, Columbia
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Harvard University

Daisuke Miyao (2003-2004)
Ph.D.: Cinema Studies, New York University
ExEAS Course: Ozu and World Cinema (Offered Fall 2003)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon

Laura Neitzel (2002-2003)
Ph.D.: History, Columbia University
ExEAS Course: Japan and the World (Offered Spring 2003)
Current Position: Instructor, History, Brookdale Community College

Li Qi (2004-2005)
Ph.D.: Economics, University of Pittsburgh
ExEAS Course: East Asia’s Dynamic Economies: Reflections on Modern Economic Theory (Offered Spring 2005)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Agnes Scott College

Lili Iriye Selden (2002-2003)
Ph.D.: Japanese Literature, University of Michigan
ExEAS Course: The Short Story in East Asia and Beyond (Offered Spring 2003)
Current Position: Freelance Editor and Translator

Colin Smith
Ph.D.: Anthropology, Yale University
ExEAS Course: Globalization and Citizenship: the Cultural Politics of Belonging (offered Spring 2007)
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Swarthmore College

Kazuko Suzuki (2004-2005)
Ph.D.: Sociology, Princeton University
ExEAS Course: Race and Ethnicity in East Asia and Beyond (Offered Spring 2005)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University

R. Kenji Tierney (2003-2004)
Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
ExEAS Course: Space and Place in East Asia (Offered Fall 2003)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Skidmore College

Xiaodan Zhang, ExEAS Fellow in Contemporary Chinese Society (2003-2005)
Ph.D.: Sociology, Columbia University
Courses: Gender in Contemporary East Asia (Based on Aya Ezawa's 2002 syllabus; Offered Fall 2004); Changing China: Social Development and Conflicts (Offered Spring 2004 & 2005)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, York College, CUNY