Core Faculty, Associate Faculty, CEAS GTAs, Affiliate Researchers, and Emeritus Faculty

Core CEAS Faculty

Baskett, Michael

Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies
http://film.ku.edu/people/baskett_michael.shtml
Asian films, particularly Japanese, silent and early world cinema, colonial and diasporic cinemas, film/media history and criticism, and postcolonial film studies

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

Chi, Tailan

Professor, International Business
http://www.business.ku.edu/faculty/chi-tailan/
International business, the global regime of international business, and business in China.

Childs, Margaret H.

Associate Professor, East Asian Language & Cultures
http://www2.ku.edu/~ealc/faculty/margaret_childs.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; politics of gender and conversion in contemporary South Korean evangelicalism

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://anthropology.ku.edu/~kuanth/people/dwyer-arienne-m.shtml
Linguistic anthropology, typology, field methods, media archives; endangered-language documentation; China and Central Asia.

Ercums, Kris Imants

Curator, Spencer Museum of Art
http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/information/staff.shtml
Spencer Museum Curator of Asian Art

Fowler, Sherry

Associate Professor, Art History
http://www.ku.edu/~kuarthis/faculty/fowler.htm
Japanese art history, Buddhist art history

Gerbert, Elaine T.

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures
pages/Gerbert_Elaine_T.shtml
Modern Japanese literature, play in Japan, translation, Japanese language pedagogy

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

Haufler, Marsha

Professor, History of Art
http://www2.ku.edu/~kuarthis/faculty/haufler.htm
Chinese art history, Korean art history

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

Ho, Virginia Harper

Associate Professor, Law
http://www.law.ku.edu/~kulaw/faculty/byname/
Comparative corporate governance, corporate finance, and modern Chinese law

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
20th-century and contemporary Japanese art history

Kennedy, John

Associate 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, Dongbin

Assistant Professor, School of Education
http://soe.ku.edu/Dongbin-Kim/

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, Karen Kyeunghae

Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare
http://www.socwel.ku.edu/FacStaff/facultymember.asp?id=1286
Mental health treatment outcomes for adults with serious mental illness; improving care for people with serious mental illness through collaboration with community-based agencies; Asian and Asian American mental health.

Lhunpo, Venerable Champa Tenzin

Lecturer, East Asian Language & Cultures
pages/Lhunpo_Venerable_Champ_Tenzin.shtml
Tibetan language

Li, Yan

Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures
http://www2.ku.edu/~ealc/yan.html
Chinese linguistics and 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

McMahon, Keith

Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures
http://web.ku.edu/~kmcmahon/
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

Minai, Utako

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
http://www.linguistics.ku.edu/faculty/index.shtml
First Language Acquisition, Child Language

Mitsugi, Sanako

Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures
http://www2.ku.edu/~ealc/faculty/
Japanese language acquisition, adult second language processing (L2) of Japanese

Nam, Yoonmi

Associate Professor, Art
http://art.ku.edu/people/nam_yoonmi.shtml
Drawing, printmaking, painting, and installation art; Japanese woodblock printing methods

Peterson, Deborah E.

Lecturer, East Asian Languages & 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

Stevenson, Daniel B.

Associate Professor, Religious Studies
http://www.ku.edu/~rstudies/FacultyNewbios.shtml
Buddhism in China, Tiantai and Pure Land traditions

Takeyama, Akiko

Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
http://wgss.ku.edu/people/akiko_takeyama.shtml
Commercialization of feelings, emotions, and romantic relationships

Williams, Crispin L.

Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures
pages/Williams_Crispin_L.shtml
Early Chinese paleography, language, and culture; Chinese language pedagogy

Xiao, Hui Faye

Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures
http://www2.ku.edu/~ealc/faculty/
Contemporary Chinese literature and film

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

Yoon, Jiso

Assistant Professor, Political Science
http://kups.ku.edu/people/Faculty/JisoYoon.shtml
Comparative public policy, political communication and media, East Asian politics and public policy in Korea and Japan

Yun, Kyoim

Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures
http://www2.ku.edu/~ealc/faculty/kyoim_yun.shtml
Korean language and culture; folklore

Zhang, Jie

Associate Professor, Linguistics
http://www2.ku.edu/~ling/faculty/zhang.shtml
Phonology, phonetics, phonology-phonetics relations, tone languages, Chinese languages

Zhang, Yan Bing

Associate 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

 

Associate CEAS Faculty

Anderson, Christopher W.

Associate Professor, School of Business
http://www.business.ku.edu/faculty/anderson-christopher-w/
International finance, corporate finance, contracting and governance; international expertise in capital markets in Japan and South America

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

Rice Distinguished Professor, School of Law
http://www.law.ku.edu/faculty/bhala.shtml
International trade regulation, advanced international trade regulation, Islamic law

Brown, Chris

Associate Professor Director, The Environmental Studies Program
http://esp.ku.edu/faculty.shtml
Social relations in Amazonian rural development; expansion of soybean production in Amazonia; development and the Politics of Scale

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.

Fiorentino, Robert

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
http://people.ku.edu/~fiore355/

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

Gibson, Malcolm

General Manager, University Daily Kansan
http://www.journalism.ku.edu/faculty/people/gibson.shtml
International journalism

Gabriele, Alison

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
http://people.ku.edu/%7Egabriele/
Second language acquisition

Han, Jie

Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental, & 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.

Ho, Alfred Tat-Kei

Associate Professor, Public Administration
http://www.kupa.ku.edu/faculty/
Performance budgeting and management

Huang, Thomas

Associate Professor, Industrial Design
http://www.sadp.ku.edu/design/faculty/huangthomas/exhibitions.shtml
Furniture-based sculpture; Asian materials

Kim, Johnny S.

Assistant Professor, Social Welfare
http://www.socwel.ku.edu/FacStaff/facultymember.asp?id=986

Lee, Tien-Tsung

Associate Professor, Journalism
http://www.journalism.ku.edu/faculty/people/tienlee.shtml

Li, Xingong

Associate Professor, Geography
http://www2.ku.edu/~geography/peoplepages/Li_X.shtml
Geographic Information Systems

Lux, Christina

Language Program Coordinator
http://www2.ku.edu/~frenital/instructors/

Martin, Larry D.

Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Natural History; Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.nhm.ku.edu/paleontology/ldmartin.htm
Paleontology, Chinese lower cretaceous, feathered dinosaurs

Mitscher, Lester A.

Distinguished Professor, Medicinal Chemistry
http://www.medchem.ku.edu/faculty_mitscher.shtml
Natural products, antibiotics, antivirals, antimutagenics/ chemopreventive agents, antitumor agents; traditional Chinese medicine; green tea

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

Silva, Kapila

Assistant Professor, Architecture
http://www.sadp.ku.edu/architecture/people/faculty/kapilasilva
Social, cultural, and psychological dimensions in design; global heritage management and architectural preservation; nonwestern traditions in architecture and urban design (special focus on South, Southeast, and East Asian countries); Community design practices (affordable housing and post-disaster resettlement)

Simpson, Gregory B.

Professor and Department Chair, Cognitive 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

Taylor, Michael

Assistant Professor, Geology
http://www.geo.ku.edu/programs/tectonics/taylor/
Geography and culture, Tibetan plateau

Volek, Thomas

Associate Dean, journalism
http://www.journalism.ku.edu/faculty/people/volek.shtml

Wong-Cruz, Ketty

Assistant Professor, Music & Dance
http://music.ku.edu/programs/musicology/faculty/wong/

Zhao, Jane

Assistant Professor, School of Business
http://www.business.ku.edu/faculty/zhao-jane/
Strategic management, corporate strategy; expertise in China

Zimmerman, Mary

Professor, Health Policy & Management, Sociology
http://www.ku.edu/%7Esocdept/people/zimmerman/
Comparative health care systems; health and social behavior; traditional Chinese medicine

Graduate Teaching Assistants

Serj, Batsettseg (Mongolian language)

Lecturer, East Asian Languages & Cultures

Yakefu, Mayila (Mahire Yakup) (Uyghur language)

Lecturer, East Asian Languages & Cultures
http://www2.ku.edu/~ealc/faculty/

Affiliate CEAS Members

Graham, Patricia J.

Research Associate, Center for East Asian Studies
pages/Graham_Patricia_J.shtml
Japanese art history, Japanese devotional site

Gridley, Marilyn Leidig

Research Associate, Center for East Asian Studies
pages/Gridley_Marilyn_Leidig.shtml
Chinese art history, Buddhist art history

Slusser, Dale

Assistant Vice President, Development, Kansas University Endowment Association
pages/Slusser_Dale.shtml
Japanese culture and tea ceremony

Emeritus Faculty

Dardess, John W.

Professor Emeritus, 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
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

Professor Emeritus, Art History
http://www2.ku.edu/~kuarthis/faculty/index.htm
Chinese painting history

Moos, Felix

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology
Socio-cultural anthropology

Minor, Robert N.

Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies
http://www.ku.edu/~rstudies/FacultyNewbios.shtml
South Asian religions, history of religions methodology, religion and gender

Weiss, Thomas

Professor Emeritus, Economics
pages/Weiss_Thomas.shtml
Economic issues in East Asia

Yamamoto, Akira Y.

Professor Emeritus , Anthropology and Linguistics
http://www.linguistics.ku.edu/faculty/Dr_Yamamoto/index.shtml
Linguistic anthropology; Japanese culture

Yamamoto, Kimiko

Professor Emeritus, East Asian Languages & Cultures