Weatherhead East Asian Institute: Faculty and Scholars by Regional Expertise

Faculty & Scholars by Regional Expertise

CHINA

Weihong Bao wb2191@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Cinema, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Chinese film and media culture, film theory and film history, international silent cinema, cinema and modernity, East Asian cinema more

Myron L. Cohen mlc5@columbia.edu
Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Professor of Anthropology
Research Interests: Chinese culture and society: economic culture, popular religion, family and kinship, social change since the seventeenth century; Taiwan and northern, eastern, and western mainland China more

Samuel S. Kim ssk12@columbia.edu
Senior Research Scholar of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Research Interests: Korean foreign relations and politics; Chinese foreign policy more

Dorothy Ko dk2031@columbia.edu
Professor of History, Barnard College
Research Interests: History of women, gender, and material cultures in early modern China more

Eugenia Lean eyl2006@columbia.edu
Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Cultural and intellectual history of China; history of science; gender; historiography and critical theory more

Benjamin Liebman bl2075@columbia.edu
Professor of Law, Columbia School of Law; Director, Center for Chinese Legal Studies
Research Interests: Chinese law; medical disputes in China; popular access to the courts in China; the evolving roles of legal institutions and lawyers; environmental law; Chinese tort law more

Lydia Liu ll2410@columbia.edu
Wu Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director of Graduate Studies in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Research Interests: Modern Chinese literature and culture; critical translation theory; postcolonial theory; empire studies; material culture, semiotics, and new media more

Xiaobo Lü xl29@columbia.edu
Professor of Political Science, Barnard College
Research Interests: Political economy of post-socialist transition, political corruption, and Chinese politics more

Yao Lu yao.lu@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Research Interests: Internal migration in China and Chinese immigration; public health issues; labor market inequality and educational stratification more

Roberta H. Martin rhm1@columbia.edu
Senior Research Scholar; Director, Asia for Educators; Director, Columbia University National Coordinating Site of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia
Research Interests: Education about East Asia in U.S. schools; education in China more

Adam McKeown amm2009@columbia.edu
Associate Professor of History, Department of History
Research Interests: History of the United States and East Asia; Chinese diaspora; migration control; global history more

Andrew J. Nathan ajn1@columbia.edu
Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science
Research Interests: Chinese foreign policy; sources of political legitimacy in Asia; human rights more

Carl Riskin cr6@columbia.edu
Senior Research Scholar, Adjunct Professor of Economics; Distinguished Professor of Economics, Queens College, The City University of New York
Research Interests: Income distribution in China; poverty and poverty reduction policies in China; problems of economic reform more

Morris Rossabi mr63@columbia.edu
Senior Research Scholar, Adjunct Professor of Inner Asian History; Distinguished Professor of History, Queens College, The City University of New York
Research Interests: Mongolian History more

Dan Rosen dr2024@columbia.edu
Adjunct Associate Professor
Research Interests: International economics, Chinese economics more

Orville Schell oschell@asiasociety.org
Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Chinese History more

James D. Seymour seymour@columbia.edu
Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Politics of the PRC, especially Tibet and the northwest; comparative human rights more

Wei Shang ws110@columbia.edu
Wm. Theodore and Fanny Brett de Bary and Class of 1941 Collegiate Professor of Asian Humanities
Research Interests: Premodern Chinese literature and cultural history more

Kay Shimizu ks2679@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Research Interests: Comparative politics; political economy; Japanese politics, Chinese politics more

Denis Fred Simon chinaprc@aol.com
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar more

Gray Tuttle gwt2102@columbia.edu
Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Modern Tibetan history; Manchu Qing Empire frontiers; role of Tibetan Buddhism in Sino-Tibetan relations more

Shang-Jin Wei sw2446@columbia.edu
N. T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School
Research Interests: Chinese economy, corruption, international finance and trade more

Edwin A. Winckler eaw9@columbia.edu
Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Politics of East Asian development, especially the People's Republic of China and Taiwan more

Elizabeth Wishnick ew124@columbia.edu
Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Chinese foreign policy; nontraditional security in Asia; Great Power relations in Central Asia more

Guobin Yang gy2112@columbia.edu
Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College.
Research Interests: Social movement; online activism and Internet studies; social memory; voluntary associations; contemporary Chinese society more

Chün-fang Yücy2126@columbia.edu
Sheng Yen Professor of Chinese Buddhist Studies, Department of Religion and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Chinese Buddhism, East Asian religions, Buddhism and gender, Buddhism and modernization more

Madeleine Zelin mhz1@columbia.edu
Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History
Research Interests: Modern legal history and the role of law in the Chinese economy more

JAPAN

Paul Anderer pja1@columbia.edu
de Bary/Class of '41 Professor of Asian Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature, film, and cultural criticism; narrative topography; city cultures; modern tragedy more

Lisbeth Kim Brandt lb28@columbia.edu
Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Twentieth-century Japanese cultural and social history more

Richard Calichman rcalichman@ccny.cuny.edu
Associate Research Scholar
Research Interests: Modern Japanese Literature, premodern Japanese literature and modern Japanese history more

Gerald L. Curtis glc2@columbia.edu
Burgess Professor of Political Science; Director, Toyota Research Program, WEAI; Senior Research Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation
Research Interests: Modern Japanese politics, foreign policy, social change, political economy; East Asia international relations more

Carol Gluck cg9@columbia.edu
George Sansom Professor of History; Chair, Weatherhead East Asian Institute Publications Program
Research Interests: Modern Japan (late nineteenth century to the present); international history; American–East Asian relations; history writing and public memory in Asia and the world more

Harry Harootunian hdh5@columbia.edu
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Early Modern and Modern Japanese history and historical theory more

Christopher L. Hill clh20@columbia.edu
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar
Research Interests: Realism and Modernism in Japanese fiction; history of social thought more

Shigeo Hirano sh145@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Research Interests: Comparative politics; American politics; political economy; Japanese politics more

Hikari Hori hh2104@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor, Visual Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Japanese Film, Visual Culture Studies, Gender Studies, and Feminist and Critical Theories more

Marilyn Ivy mji4@columbia.edu
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology
Research Interests: Modern Japanese anthropology more

Merit E. Janow mj60@columbia.edu
Professor of International Economic Law and International Affairs, School of Law and School of International and Public Affairs; Director, Program in International Finance and Economic Policy, Codirector, APEC Study Center
Research Interests: International trade and competition law and policy; economic and trade policy in Asia Pacific economies; WTO law and dispute settlement; U.S.-Japan trade and economic issues, China trade and investment more

Mark A. Jones maj7@columbia.edu
Associate Research Scholar
Research Interests: The emergence of modern childhood in early 20th century Japan
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Curtis J. Milhaupt cm536@columbia.edu
Vice Dean for Intellectual Life; Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Corporate Law; Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law; Director, Center for Japanese Legal Studies
Research Interests: East Asian legal systems, particularly Japanese law; comparative corporate governance; law and economic development more

George R. Packard grp2001@columbia.edu
Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science
Research Interests: History of US-Japan relations from 1853 to the present more

Hugh T. Patrick htp1@columbia.edu
R. D. Calkins Professor of International Business; Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business; Co-Director, APEC Study Center
Research Interests: Japanese economy; Pacific Basin economic relations more

Gregory Pflugfelder gmp12@columbia.edu
Associate Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History; Director, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Studies
Research Interests: Early modern and modern Japanese history; gender and sexuality studies more

Kay Shimizu ks2679@columbia.edu
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Research Interests: Comparative politics; political economy; Japanese politics, Chinese politics more

Haruo Shirane hs14@columbia.edu
Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Japanese literature, visual culture, and cultural history, with particular focus on intertextuality, text/image relations, and the interaction between popular and elite cultures more

Henry D. Smith II hds2@columbia.edu
Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director, Kyoto Consortium of Japanese Studies.
Research Interests: Late Edo landscape prints; the history of color and pigments in Japanese woodblock prints of the eighteenth and nineteenth century; woodblock views of Edo and Tokyo; "Chūshingura" and the relationship between history and legend in early modern and modern Japan; history of modern Tokyo; history of modern Japanese architecture more

Tomi Suzuki ts202@columbia.edu
Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature and criticism; literary and cultural theory, particularly theory of narrative, genre and gender, modernism and modernity; intellectual history of modern Japan; history of reading, canon formation, and literary histories more

David Weinstein dew35@columbia.edu
Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy and Vice Chair, Department of Economics; Associate Director for Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business
Research Interests: International trade; the Japanese economy; corporate finance; industrial policy more

KOREA

Charles K. Armstrong cra10@columbia.edu
Professor of Modern East Asian and International History, Department of History
Director of the Center for Korean Research
Research Interests: Modern East Asian political and social history; Korean history; U.S.–East Asian relations; international history more

Theodore Q. Hughes th2150@columbia.edu
Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Korean literature more

Laurel Kendall lk7@columbia.edu
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology; Research Scholar of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Research Interests: Korean History focusing on Shamans; Korean and Vietnam regional comparisons more

Samuel S. Kim ssk12@columbia.edu
Senior Research Scholar of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Research Interests: Korean foreign relations and politics; Chinese foreign policy more

Sue Mi Terry sueterry@gmail.com
Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: North Korea, particularly North Korean leadership succession plans; Pyongyang's evolving nuclear strategy and the potential for instability in North Korea; politics and foreign policy of South Korea; Northeast Asian security; US-Northeast Asia relations more

Joel S. Wit joelwit@earthlink.net
Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: U.S.-North Korea Relations and Foreign Policy more

MONGOLIA

James D. Seymour seymour@columbia.edu
Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Politics of the PRC, especially Tibet and the northwest; comparative human rights more

SOUTHEAST ASIA

Amy L. Freedman alf2107@columbia.edu
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar
Research Interests: Political Islam on Indonesia and Malaysia more

Andrew Johnson email TBA
Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Southeast Asian Studies, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Research Interests: Cultural Anthropology of religion and ritual, mainland Southeast Asia, Urban Anthropology, and Cosmopolitanism and nationalism more

Duncan McCargo d.j.mccargo@leeds.ac.uk
Visting Scholar
Research Interests: Politics of contemporary Thailand, including the ongoing insurgency in the South; politics of justice; comparative politics in the Asia-Pacific region more

Rosalind C. Morris rcm24@columbia.edu
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology
Research Interests: History of modernity in Thailand; the theorization of visual culture and forms of mass mediation; anthropology of value and violence based mainly on ethnography in South Africa more

Ann Marie Murphy amm31@columbia.edu
Adjunct Research Scholar
Research Interests: International relations of Southeast Asia; political development in Southeast Asia; U.S. foreign policy toward Southeast Asia more

Hugh T. Patrick htp1@columbia.edu
R.D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus; director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, School of Business; co-director of the APEC Study Center
Research Interests: Japanese economy; Pacific Basin economic relations more

John Pemberton jp373@columbia.edu
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology
Research Interests: Anthropology and history; colonial encounters, translation, ritual practice, and colonial and postcolonial cultures, focus on Indonesia more

Jayne Werner jsw7@columbia.edu
Adjunct Research Scholar
Research Interests: Social and cultural politics of contemporary Vietnam more

TAIWAN

Murray Rubinstein mr2789@columbia.edu
Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Christianity in China and Taiwan; development of modern Taiwan, government, politics and religion. more

James D. Seymour seymour@columbia.edu
Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Politics of the PRC, especially Tibet and the northwest; comparative human rights more

Hsun-hui Tseng email TBA
INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-13, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Research Interests: Globalization, Transnational Marriage, Migration and Trafficking, and Asian Studies: Taiwan, China and Vietnam more

Edwin A. Winckler eaw9@columbia.edu
Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Politics of East Asian development, especially the People's Republic of China and Taiwan more

Elizabeth Wishnick ew124@columbia.edu
Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Chinese foreign policy; nontraditional security in Asia; Great Power relations in Central Asia more

TIBET

Robert J. Barnett rjb58@columbia.edu
Associate Research Scholar; Director, Modern Tibet Studies Program; Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Tibetan Studies
Research Interests: Modern Tibetan history, culture and politics; film and television in Inner Asia; nationality issues in China more

Tenzin Norbu Nangsal tn218@columbia.edu
Lecturer
Research Interests: Modern Tibetan language more

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