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ASIAN STUDIES

 

Faculty and Staff

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

Professor, Department of Anthropology

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


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

Severance Associate Professor of the History of Religion and Chair, Department of Religion

• East Asian religions, Buddhism, 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


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

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

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


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

Director of Engineering, CWRUNet Services

• 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


ELISABETH KÖLL (Ph.D., University of Oxford)

Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History

• Chinese socio-economic history, business history; modern Japanese socio-economic history; history of industrialization and technological development in East Asia


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 of Political Science

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


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

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

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


DEEPAK SARMA (Ph.D., University of Chicago)

Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions

• South Asian religious and philosophical traditions, especially Hinduism. Vedanta and Indian Philosophy.


MARJORIE WILLIAMS (M.A., University of Michigan)

Curator of Adult Programs and Acting Director, Education Department, Cleveland Museum of Art
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Art

• East Asian art