Faculty in CEAS

Following is a list of faculty affilated with the Center for East Asian Studies.

Anderson, Christopher W.
Associate Professor, School of Business
http://www.business.ku.edu/facultyProfiles-06BE8
International finance, corporate finance, contracting and governance; international expertise in capital markets in Japan and South America.
Asuncion-Lande, Nobleza C.
Professor, Communications Studies
http://www2.ku.edu/~coms/faculty/asuncion.shtml
Intercultural communication, organizational communication, and linguistics; management of cross-cultural conflict; expertise in several East Asian cultures.
Bai, Yong
Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
http://ceae.engr.ku.edu/people/bai.html
International Construction and Engineering Management, Global Supplier Chain Management.
Baskett, Michael
Associate Professor, Theatre and Film
http://www2.ku.edu/~kuthf/baskett.shtml
Asian films, particularly Japanese, silent and early world cinema, colonial and diasporic cinemas, film/media history and criticism, and postcolonial film studies.
Basow, Robert R.
Associate Professor, Journalism
http://www.journalism.ku.edu/faculty/people/basow.shtml
Consumer research on media habits and preferences in emerging democracies.
Bhala, Raj
Professor, School of Law
http://www.law.ku.edu/faculty/bhala.shtml
International trade regulation, advanced international trade regulation, Islamic law.
Butler, James J. Jr.
Senior Scientist, Kansas Geological Survey
http://www.kgs.ku.edu/General/Personnel/abc/butler.html
Well hydraulics, direct-push methods for hydrostratigraphic characterization, ground-water flow and transport in heterogeneous formations, stream-aquifer interactions, phreatophytes. Experience in China, Korea, and Japan.
Canda, Edward R.
Professor, Social Welfare
http://www.socwel.ku.edu/canda/
Spiritual diversity in social work theory and practice; philosophy of social work; qualitative research methods; international social work; Korean social welfare in relation to Korean philosophy and religions; East Asian and international perspectives on social welfare.
Cheong, So-min
Assistant Professor, Geography
http://www2.ku.edu/~geography/peoplepages/Cheong_S.shtml
Environment, Marine Policy, Economic Geography, Tourism, East Asia
Geog. 100: World Regional Geography
Geog. 552: Qualitative Methods
Geog. 571: Economy and Environment: East Asia
Geog. 980: Science and Policy
Chi, Tailan
Associate Professor, Business
http://www.business.ku.edu/facultyProfiles-LJ2EI
International business, the global regime of international business and business in China.
Childs, Margaret H.
Associate Professor, East Asian Language and Cultures
pages/Childs_Margaret_H.shtml
Pre-modern Japanese literature, Japanese language pedagogy.
Chong, Kelly H.
Assistant Professor, Sociology
http://www.ku.edu/~socdept/people/chong/
Gender, religion, race and ethnicity, and East Asian studies--the politics of gender and conversion in contemporary South Korean evangelicalism.
Devine, Maija
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
pages/Devine_Maija.shtml
Korean language, East Asian culture, creative writing, Asian film.
Doll, Vickie Fu
Chinese Studies Librarian, East Asian Library
http://www.lib.ku.edu/eastasia/staff/vfd.shtml
Dwyer, Arienne M
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Linguistics
http://www.ku.edu/~kuanth/people/faculty_dwyer.shtml
Linguistic anthropology, typology, field methods, media archives; endangered-language documentation; China and Central Asia.
Eda, Sanae
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
pages/Eda_Sanae.shtml
Japanese linguistics, Japanese language pedagogy.
Ercums, Kris Imants
Curator, Spencer Museum of Art
http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/information/staff.shtml
Spencer Museum Curator of Asian Art
Fiorentino, Robert
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
http://people.ku.edu/~fiore355/
2006 Psycholinguistics of Word and Sentence (LING492/791, KU) Introductory Linguistics, Honors (LING107, KU)
Fowler, Sherry
Associate Professor of Japanese Art History, Art History
http://www.ku.edu/~kuarthis/faculty/fowler.htm
Japanese art history, Buddhist art history.
Fredrickson, H. George
Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor, Public Administration
http://people.ku.edu/~gfred/
Public administration, public administration ethics, theories of public administration, systems of multi-level governance, and American local government; experience in Korea and China.
Gabriele, Alison
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
http://people.ku.edu/%7Egabriele/
University of Kansas Department of Linguistics LING 107: Introduction to Linguistics-Honors (Fall 2005/Fall 2006) LING 415/715: Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (Fall 2005/Spring 2006) LING 416/716: Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition II (Spring 2006)
Gerbert, Elaine T.
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
pages/Gerbert_Elaine_T.shtml
Modern Japanese literature, play in Japan, translation, Japanese language pedagogy.
Graham, Patricia J.
Research Associate, Center for East Asian Studies
pages/Graham_Patricia_J.shtml
Japanese art history, Japanese devotional sites.
Greene, Megan
Associate Professor, History; Director, Center for East Asian Studies
http://www.history.ku.edu/faculty/greene/index.shtml
Modern Chinese history, Republican Chinese history, especially ROC science policy on Taiwan. (Prof. Greene is on sabbatical Fall 2008.)
Gridley, Marilyn Leidig
Research Associate, Center for East Asian Studies
pages/Gridley_Marilyn_Leidig.shtml
Chinese art history; Buddhist art history.
Han, Jie
Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
http://www.engr.ku.edu/~jhan/index.htm
Geotechnical engineering; geosynthetics, earth-retaining structures, ground improvement, pile foundations, and pavement design. Experience in China.
Haufler, Marsha
Professor, History of Art
http://www2.ku.edu/~kuarthis/faculty/haufler.htm
Head, John W.
Professor, Law
http://www.law.ku.edu/faculty/head.shtml
Comparative law, international commerce and investment, public international law international economic law, international public law, comparative law legal history, dynastic Chinese law
Huang, Thomas
Associate Professor, Industrial Design
http://arts.ku.edu/~sfa/dsgn/industrialdesign/huang/index.shtml
Furniture-based sculpture; Asian materials
Ito, Michiko
Japanese Studies Librarian, East Asian Library
http://www.lib.ku.edu/eastasia/staff/mito.shtml
Kaneko, Maki
Assistant Professor, Art History
http://www2.ku.edu/~kuarthis/faculty/index.htm
HA 305: Japanese Visual Arts after 1868
HA 788/990: War and Empire in 20th-century Japanese Visual Culture
Kennedy, John
Assistant Professor, Political Science
http://www.ku.edu/~kups/people/Faculty/Kennedy_John.shtml
Comparative politics, Chinese politics, rural political development.
Kim, Changhwan
Assistant Professor, Sociology
http://www.sociology.ku.edu/~sociology/people/kim/
Kim, Johnny S.
Assistant Professor, Social Welfare
http://www.socwel.ku.edu/FacStaff/facultymember.asp?id=986
SW 710,
Lau, Pok Chi
Professor, Art and Design
http://arts.ku.edu/~sfa/dsgn/photography/lau/index.shtml
Traditional and digital photography, video and mixed media; social documentary photography on issues such as migration of Asians to the Americas; multiculturalism, diversity and ethnic identity; Chinese migration within and outside China.
Lee, Tien-Tsung
Associate Professor, Journalism
http://www.journalism.ku.edu/faculty/people/tienlee.shtml
JOUR 506, JOUR 508, JOUR 568, JOUR 676
Lhunpo, Venerable Champa Tenzin
Lecturer, East Asian Language and Cultures
pages/Lhunpo_Venerable_Champ_Tenzin.shtml
Tibetan language.
Li, Xingong
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
http://www2.ku.edu/~geography/peoplepages/Li_X.shtml
Geog. 358: Principles of GIS
Geog. 558: Geographic Information Systems
Geog. 758: Geographic Information Science
Li, Yan
Assistant Professor, EALC
http://www2.ku.edu/~ealc/yan.html
Chinese Linguistics andd Second Language Acquisition
Lindsey, William Robert
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
http://www.ku.edu/~rstudies/FacultyNewbios.shtml
Religion in Japan; popular religious expression and ritual in the Tokugawa period
Lu, Yang
Assistant Professor, History
http://www.history.ku.edu/about.shtml
Premodern Chinese history
Martin, Larry D.
Curator of vertebrate paleontology, Museum of Natural History; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.nhm.ku.edu/paleontology/ldmartin.htm
Paleontology; Chinese Lower Cretaceous, feathered dinosaurs.
McMahon, Keith
Professor and Department Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures
pages/McMahon_Keith.shtml
Chinese language and literature; Late Ming to early modern fiction, gender and sexuality.
McNair, Amy
Professor, Art History
http://www.ku.edu/~kuarthis/faculty/mcnair.htm
Early Chinese art; calligraphy, aesthetics and Buddhist sculpture of the medieval period in China.
Minor, Robert N.
Professor, Religious Studies
http://www.ku.edu/~rstudies/FacultyNewbios.shtml
South Asian Religions; history of religions methodology; religion and gender
Mitscher, Lester A.
Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
http://www.medchem.ku.edu/faculty_mitscher.shtml
Natural products, antibiotics, antivirals, antimutagenics/ chemopreventive agents, antitumor agents; traditional Chinese medicine.
Moos, Felix
Professor, Anthropology
http://www.ku.edu/~kuanth/people/faculty_moos.shtml
Ethnology and applied anthropology, culture change and development, comparative value systems, ethnic and asymmetric conflict; East, South and Southeast Asia, Pacific.
Nam, Yoonmi
Assistant Professor, Art
http://www2.ku.edu/~sfa/art/printmaking/nam/index.shtml
Drawing, printmaking, painting, and installation art; Japanese woodblock printing methods.
Park, So Yeon
Assistant Professor, Art and Design
http://arts.ku.edu/~sfa/art/expandedmedia/park/index.shtml
Drawing, Performance Art, Public Art, Time-based media and Collaborative Production
Perlmutter, David
Ph. D., Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
http://www.journalism.ku.edu/faculty/people/perlmutter.shtml
Theory, Popular Culture
Peterson, Deborah E.
Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Cultures
pages/Peterson_Deborah_E.shtml
Chinese language pedagogy; Tibetan culture.
Rath, Eric
Associate Professor, History
http://www.history.ku.edu/faculty/rath/index.shtml
Premodern Japan, social and cultural history, especially traditional Japanese theater, foodways, and urban agriculture; Tibetan history.
Shenoy, Catherine
Assistant Professor; Director, Applied Portfolio Management, School of Business
http://cshenoy.business.ku.edu/
Decision science and finance; doing business and investing in China.
Shibata, Takao
Chancellor's Lecturer, East Asian Languages / History
Website N/A
Mr. Shibata is the 2006-08 Chancellor's Lecturer at KU. In this role, he presents lectures for the Center for East Asian Studies and other disciplines throughout the university. He has also spent time meeting with groups of students, faculty, and community members to share his knowledge and experiences as an economist and diplomat and his role in the drafting of the Kyoto Protocol. He was the Consul General of Japan in Kansas City from 2002 to 2004, which made him responsible for Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota. During his time as Consul General, Shibata has worked in Japanese embassies in Nigeria, Pakistan, Sweden and Zimbabwe. He also was the Permanent Mission of Japan to United Nations.
Shim, Woochan Schola
Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare
http://www.socwel.ku.edu/FacStaff/facultymember.asp?id=921
Domestic violence and intersection with child maltreatment and spirituality; worker-client relationships; adjustment issues among transnational families or multinational households; and diversity; expertise in Korea.
Simpson, Gregory B.
Professor and Department Chair, Psychology
http://www.psych.ku.edu/psych_people/faculty_Greg_Simpson.shtml
Cognitive psychology; psychology of learning; psycholinguistics; language development; cross-linguistic approach to word recognition processes in Korean.
Slusser, Dale
Assistant Vice President, Development Kansas University
pages/Slusser_Dale.shtml
Japanese culture and tea ceremony.
Stevenson, Daniel B.
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
http://www.ku.edu/~rstudies/FacultyNewbios.shtml
Buddhism in China; Tiantai and Pure Land traditions.
Stevenson, Miwha
Research Associate, Center for East Asian Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures
pages/Stevenson_Miwha.shtml
Korean history, culture, and language.
Swearingen White, Stacey
Assistant Professor, Urban Planning
http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/stafffil/sswhite.shtml
Environmental planning and policy; expertise in Japan.
Takeyama, Akiko
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
http://www2.ku.edu/~kuanth/people/faculty_Takeyama.html
Commercialization of feelings, emotions, and romantic relationships; women's studies
Taylor, Michael
Assistant Professor, Geology
http://www.geo.ku.edu/programs/tectonics/taylor/
Volek, Thomas
Associate Professor, journalism
http://www.journalism.ku.edu/faculty/people/volek.shtml
Wilds, Tatyana
Outreach Coordinator, Russian, Eastern Europe & Eurasian Studies
Tsutsui, William M.
Associate Dean of International Studies, CLAS; Professor, History
http://www.history.ku.edu/faculty/tsutsui/index.shtml
Modern Japanese history, business and economic history, U.S.-Japanese relations, Japanese popular culture (especially Godzilla), environmental history.
Williams, Crispin L.
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
pages/Williams_Crispin_L.shtml
Early Chinese paleography, language and culture; Chinese language pedagogy.
Wong, Ketty
Assistant Professor, Department of Music & Dance
http://arts.ku.edu/~sfa/musicdance/musicology/wong/index.shtml
MUSC 320, MUSC 560
Yakefu, Mayila
Lecturer, EAst Asian Languages / Cultures
http://www2.ku.edu/~ealc/faculty.html
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Yap, Fiona
Associate Professor, Political Science
http://www.ku.edu/%7Ekups/people/Faculty/Yap_Fiona.shtml
Comparative politics and political economy; formal and informal institutions; game theory bargaining models for East Asia
Yun, Kyoim
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
http://www2.ku.edu/~ealc/faculty.html
Korean language and culture; folklore
Zhang, Yan Bing
Assistant Professor, Communications Studies
http://www2.ku.edu/~coms/faculty/zhang.shtml
Intercultural/intergenerational/mass communication in regard to cultural values, age stereotypes, conflict management, and media effects; expertise in China.
Zhang, Jie
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
http://www2.ku.edu/~ling/faculty/zhang.shtml
Phonology, phonetics, phonology-phonetics relations, tone languages, Chinese languages.
Zhao, Jane
Assistant Professor, School of Business
http://www.business.ku.edu/facultyprofiles-W9HL1
Strategic management, corporate strategy; expertise in China.
Zimmerman, Mary
Professor, Health Policy and Management, Sociology
http://www.ku.edu/%7Esocdept/people/zimmerman/
Comparative health care systems; health and social behavior; traditional Chinese medicine.

Emeritus Faculty

Dardess, John W.
N/A, History
pages/Dardess_John_W.shtml
Chinese Imperial History; Inner Asian History
Goodman, Grant K.
Professor Emeritus, History

Modern Japanese and Philippine history
Kleinberg, Jill
Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Business
website N/A
Cross-cultural interaction in organizational settings (U.S.-Japan, U.S.-China, U.S.-Japan-Mexico); comparative and cross-cultural management; Japanese organizational behavior; management issues in binational organizations; cross-cultural negotiation.
Li, Chu-tsing
N/A, Art History
http://www2.ku.edu/~kuarthis/faculty/index.htm
Chinese painting history.
Tsubaki, Andrew
Professor Emeritus, Theatre and Film
http://groups.ku.edu/~kiaikido/resources/
Japanese theatre production and performance (noh, kyogen, kabuki); shingeki, aikido.
Weiss, Thomas
Professor, Economics
pages/Weiss_Thomas.shtml
Economic issues in East Asia, introduction to economic analysis.
Yamamoto, Akira Y.
Retired Professor, Anthropology and Linguistics
http://www.linguistics.ku.edu/faculty/Dr_Yamamoto/index.shtml
Linguistic anthropology; Japanese culture.
Yamamoto, Kimiko
retired Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures
N/A
retired Professor