Associate Professor, Religious Studies, EALC
Research Interests
Japanese religion; Buddhism; lay religiosity; visual culture and religion
EALC Affiliate Faculty Directory
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Politics in contemporary Xinjiang; history of modern Xinjiang; historiography in China; nationalism and ethnic conflict; Central Eurasian studies
Professor of Practice, CEUS
Research Interests
Chinese history and society; social history of Mongol China; Islam in Southwest China
Frequently Taught Courses
East Asia: An Introduction
Associate Professor, The Media School, EALC
Research Interests
screen technologies & cultures, video & media arts, media geographies & infrastructures, media production/co-production, global media studies, Inter-Asian screen media, Japanese and Chinese screen media, digital humanities & creative practice
Professor, Anthropology, Gender Studies, EALC
Research Interests
State and citizenship; migration; gender and sexuality; marriage and family; contemporary Chinese societies
Professor, Business
Research Interests
Information economics; strategic communication; industrial organization
Associate Professor, Religious Studies, EALC
Research Interests
Chinese religion; early Confucianism; the human condition; ritual theory; traditional Hawai'i
Frequently Taught Courses
Religions of Asia; The Poetics of Tao Yuanming; Reading Early Chinese Texts
Noriko Manabe
Professor, music theory
Adjunct affiliate faculty, ethnomusicology
Research Interests
Music in Japan; social movements; popular music; hip hop; songwriting; intertextuality; linguistics and music; Fukushima nuclear disaster; atomic-bomb trauma in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; children’s songs
Associate Professor, History, EALC
Research Interests
History of late imperial China; East Asian history; environmental history; early modern empires; race and ethnicity; commodity and consumption
Frequently Taught Courses
China: The Later Empires; East Asia in World History (Gen Ed); Frontier China: The Borderlands and Foreign Policy of China (Gen Ed); Environmental Problems in Chinese History
Professor, Religious Studies, EALC
Research Interests
Chinese religious thought; comparative religious ethics; philosophy of religions; Christian thought and ethics; moral philosophy
Frequently Taught Courses
Introduction to Classical Chinese Thought; Conceptions of the Self, East and West
Associate Professor, Anthropology, EALC
Research Interests
Contemporary Japan; African diaspora; race; social identity; Afro-Asia; performance studies; transnationalism; human rights
Associate Professor, History, EALC
Research Interests
Modern China; history of piracy and intellectual property rights; history of books, law, and economic life; history of cooking and cookbooks in East Asia; Chinese popular culture
Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
Assistant Professor, Political Science, EALC
Research Interests
Chinese public opinion; political participation in China; ideology' authoritarianism
Frequently Taught Courses
Chinese Politics