Director

Suzie Kim
Dept. of Cultural and Philosophical Inquiry
Art History, Modern Art and Architecture of Korea and Japan, Contemporary Korean Art, Post-colonial Theory

Affiliated Faculty

Kalpesh Bhatt
Dept. of Cultural and Philosophical Inquiry
Religion, Social and Cultural Anthropology, South Asian Studies, Indian studies, Indian Philosophy, Hinduism

Shumona Dasgupta
Dept. of English and Linguistics
Postcolonial studies, literature of the Partition

Claudine L. Ferrell
Dept. of History
Vietnam and Southeast Asia

Susan R. Fernsebener
Dept. of History, American Studies, and Sociology
Modern China and East Asia

Eric Gable
Dept. of Cultural and Philosophical Inquiry
Anthropology of Indonesia

Surupa Gupta
Dept. of Political Science and International Affairs
Politics of globalization, Comparative politics of South Asia

Nora Hui-Jung Kim
Dept. of History, American Studies, and Sociology
International immigration, multiculturalism, race and ethnicity, nationalism, and East Asia

Guan-Yi Leu 
Dept. of Political Science and International Affairs
International Relations, International Political Economy, China’s Political Economy and Foreign Relations, East Asian Economies and Politics, China-Taiwan-US Relations

Farhang Rouhani
Dept. of Geography
Cultural and political geographies of globalization;, Middle East, politics of transnational telecommunications; Middle East and Islamic urbanism, socio-spatial politics of everyday life

Mara Scanlon
Dept. of English and Linguistics
Asian-American Literature

Retired Faculty

David Ambuel, Professor emeritus
Dept. of Cultural and Philosophical Inquiry
Indian and Asian Philosophy, Buddhism, Thailand and Southeast Asia

Mehdi Aminrazavi, Professor emeritus
Dept. of Cultural and Philosophical Inquiry
Islamic philosophy and theology, Sufism, Mysticism

Yuan-Jen Chiang, Professor emeritus
Dept. of Mathematics
Mathematics and Sciences in Asia, Chinese Buddhism, Language, Calligraphy, Philosophy, Literature, Politics

Elizabeth M. Freund, Professor emerita
Dept. of Political Science and International Affairs
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong; Government and political economy of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong; Chinese language

Donald Rallis, Professor emeritus
Dept. of Geography
Regional geographies of East and Southeast Asia