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ASIAN STUDIES

 

Faculty and Staff

CYNTHIA M. BEALL (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University)

Distinguished University Professor and S. Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology
Co-Director, Center for Research on Tibet

• Physical anthropology; human growth, development and aging; human ecology; nomads; Andes, Tibet, Himalayas, Mongolia


DAVID CLINGINGSMITH (Ph.D., Harvard University)

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics

• Economics of cooperation and fairness, economic history, India, Pakistan


WILLIAM E. DEAL (Ph.D., Harvard University)

Severance Professor of the History of Religion, Department of Religious Studies
Professor of Cognitive Science (secondary), Department of Cognitive Science

See Professor Deal's webpage

• East Asian religions, Buddhism, cognitive science of religion and ethics, comparative ethics, methodology of religion


LINDA C. EHRLICH (Ph.D., University of Hawaii)

Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

• Japanese and comparative literature; Asian cinema and theater


MARGARET FITZGERALD (M.A., Ohio State University)

Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

• Japanese language


JIA-CHEN FU (Ph.D. Yale University)

Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

• Qing and 20th-Century China, Medical, Cultural History


NOELLE GIUFFRIDA-ARMHOLD  (Ph.D., University of Kansas)

Assistant Professor, Department of Art History

• Daoism and Daoist art in China, Buddhist painting and portraiture in Japan


MELVYN C. GOLDSTEIN (Ph.D., University of Washington)

J.R.Harkness Professor, Department of Anthropology
Director, Center for Research on Tibet

See Professor Goldstein's webpage

• Social anthropology; cross-cultural aging; cultural ecology; development; Tibet, China, Mongolia, Himalayas


JEFF GUMPF (M.S., Case Western Reserve University)

Chief Information Technology Architect

• Technical advisor to the Asian Studies Program and the CWRU-Waseda University International Educational Exchange Project


TAKAO HAGIWARA (Ph.D., University of British Columbia)

Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

• Japanese and comparative literature; premodern and modern Japanese literature


CHARLOTTE IKELS (Ph.D., University of Hawaii)

Professor, Department of Anthropology
Director, Asian Studies Program

• Urban life, aging, intergenerational relations, health care, comparative biomedical ethics; China, Hong Kong, US


CHIN-TAI KIM (Ph.D., Harvard University)

Professor, Department of Philosophy

• Western philosophy; traditional Chinese philosophy; East/West comparative philosophy


YUXIU LIANG (M.A., Beijing Foreign Languages Institute)

Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

• Chinese language


LEONARD LYNN (Ph.D., University of Michigan)

Professor and Chair, Department of Marketing and Policy Studies, Weatherhead School of Management

• Japan and comparative technology policy and management


KELLY MCMANN (Ph.D., University of Michigan)

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

• Comparative politics, democratization, political participation, local politics, state-building, politics of Russia, politics of Central Asia, postcommunist politics


PAUL E. SCHROEDER (Ph.D. The Ohio State University)

Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science

• The politics of China, politics of East Asia, American foreign policy in East Asia, Chinese foreign policy, international relations, politics of economic development, China and the environment, civic culture.


JIM G. SHAFFER (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

• Central and South Asian archaeology, especially the Indus Valley civilizations