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
M.A Butler (Ph.D., Cornell University)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Depart of History
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Chinese, Japanese and Southeast Asian history; pre-modern China; history of ideas; ritual and violence; ritual dynamics; popular religion and belief; culture of warfare and social violence; cultural anthropology.
David Clingingsmith (Ph.D., Harvard University)
Assistant Professor of Economics
•Economics of cooperation and fairness, economic history, India, Pakistan
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
Noelle Giuffrida-Armhold (Ph.D., University of Kansas)
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
• 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
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
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
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.
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