Anthropology
Nicholas Bartlett - Assistant Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society, Barnard College.
Research Interests: Medical and psychological anthropology, addiction and recovery, civil society, mental health service provision, psychoanalysis
Myron L. Cohen - Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology.
Research Interests: Chinese culture and society: economic culture, popular religion, family and kinship, social change
Laurel Kendall - Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Korean History focusing on Shamans; Korean and Vietnam regional comparisons
Yukiko Koga - Associate Research Scholar
Research Interests: Political economy; historical anthropology; legal anthropology; law and human rights; urban space; post-colonial & post-imperial relations; history and memory; transnational East Asia (China and Japan)
Eveline Washul - Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program
Research Interests: Historical geographies of Tibet; Tibetan genealogies; anthropology of space and place; urbanization on the Tibetan Plateau
Eve Zucker - Associate Research Scholar
Research Interests: Cultural anthropology; the aftermath of mass violence through the lenses of social memory, morality, the imagination, trust and everyday practices.
Art History
Jonathan M. Reynolds - Professor of Art History, Barnard College
Research Interests: Japanese architecture and visual culture
Economics
Alex Eble - Assistant Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College.
Research Interests: Development economics; applied microeconomics; economics of education; China
Qin Gao - Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work.
Research Interests: Poverty, inequality, social policies, and economic and subjective well-being in China and their international comparisons; International social and economic development; International program and impact evaluation; Rural-to-urban migration in China and Asian American immigrants
Takatoshi Ito - Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA; Associate Director of Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business
Research Interests: Asian Financial Markets; Japanese Economy; International Finance; Monetary Policy; Fiscal Policy; and Public Pension Funds
Merit E. Janow - Dean, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA); Professor of Professional Practice, International Economic Law and International Affairs, Columbia SIPA
Research Interests: International trade and competition law and policy; economic and trade policy in Asia Pacific economies; WTO law and dispute settlement; U.S.-Japan trade and economic issues, China trade and investment
Hugh T. Patrick - Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus; Director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School; Co-Director, APEC Study Center.
Research Interests: Pacific Basin economic relations
Carl Riskin - Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Income distribution in China; poverty and poverty reduction policies in China; problems of economic reform
Dan Rosen - Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA; Principal, Rhodium Group
Research Interests: International economics, Chinese economics
Shang-Jin Wei - N. T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School
Research Interests: Chinese economy, corruption, international finance and trade
David Weinstein - Carl Sumner Shoup Professor of Japanese Economics, Department of Economics; Chair, Department of Economics; Associate Director for Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business
Research Interests: International economics, macroeconomics, corporate finance, the Japanese economy, and industrial policy
Education
Jim Cheng - Director of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library.
Research Interests: Library and information science; film studies
Alex Eble - Assistant Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College.
Research Interests: Development economics; applied microeconomics; economics of education; China
Kumiko Makihara - Associate Research Scholar
Research Interests: Comparative education, mass media, contemporary world history
Roberta H. Martin - Director, Asia for Educators; Director, Columbia University National Coordinating Site of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia
Research Interests: Education about East Asia in U.S. schools; education in China
Chengzhi Wang - Chinese Studies Librarian, C.V. Starr East Asian Library
Research Interests: Library and information science; library history; bibliometrics/webmetrics; Chinese educational policy
History
Daniel Asen - Associate Research Scholar.
Research Interests: History of law, science, and medicine in late imperial and Republican China; the cultural and social politics of expertise; the history of death and the body.
Kim Brandt - Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Research Interests: Modern Japanese history
Kornel Chang - Research Scholar.
Research Interests: History of race, labor, migration, and borders in the Americas, and the history of the United States in the Asia-Pacific world.
Carol Gluck - George Sansom Professor of History, Department of History and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Chair, The Committee on Global ThoughtResearch Interests: Modern Japan (nineteenth century to the present); twentieth-century international history; World War II; history-writing and public memory in Asia and the world
Harry Harootunian - Senior Research Scholar.
Research Interests: Early Modern and Modern Japanese history and historical theory
Colin Jones - Associate Research Scholar
Research Interests: East Asian history; Japanese history; legal and intellectual history; international history; social policy; and the history of the family
Mark A. Jones - Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: The emergence of modern childhood in early 20th century Japan
Jungwon Kim - King Sejong Assistant Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Gender, family, and legal history of Choson Korea
Dorothy Ko - Professor of History, Barnard College
Research Interests: History of women, gender, and material cultures in early modern China
Sarah Kovner - Senior Research Scholar in the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies; Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs Email: sck25@columbia.edu BIO PUBLICATIONS NEWS Sarah Kovner is a […]
Paul Kreitman - Assistant Professor of 20th Century Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Research Interests: 20th Century Japanese history; environmental history; global history; commodity history; and histories of science and technology
Eugenia Lean - Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Chinese history, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Research Interests: Modern Chinese history; history of science, technology and industry; mass media; affect studies and emotions; law and society; historiography and critical theory
Lien-Hang Nguyen - Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, Department of History
Research Interests: United States foreign relations; Southeast Asia; The Cold War
Gregory Pflugfelder - Associate Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History
Research Interests: Early modern and modern Japanese history; gender and sexuality studies
Murray Rubinstein - Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Christianity in China and Taiwan; development of modern Taiwan, government, politics and religion.
Mark Selden - Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Political economy and history of China, Japan, and the Asia Pacific; war and peace; revolution; inequality; development; regional and world social change; historical memory
Henry D. Smith II - Professor Emeritus of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Late Edo landscape prints; the history of color and pigments in Japanese woodblock prints of the eighteenth and nineteenth century; woodblock views of Edo and Tokyo; "Chūshingura" and the relationship between history and legend in early modern and modern Japan; history of modern Tokyo; history of modern Japanese architecture
Gray Tuttle - Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies
Research Interests: Modern Tibetan history; Manchu Qing Empire frontiers; role of Tibetan Buddhism in Sino-Tibetan relations
William Wooldridge - Research Scholar
Research Interests: History of East Asia; world history; history of religions, history of technology
Madeleine Zelin - Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History.
Research Interests: Modern legal history and the role of law in the Chinese economy
Law
Michael C. Davis - Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Democracy, Governance, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding, Global Governance, International Development, Society and Culture, Asia, China Mainland, South Asia, Southeast Asia
Nobuhisa Ishizuka - Executive Director, Center for Japanese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School.
Research Interests: Japanese law; corporate law
Merit E. Janow - Dean, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA); Professor of Professional Practice, International Economic Law and International Affairs, Columbia SIPA
Research Interests: International trade and competition law and policy; economic and trade policy in Asia Pacific economies; WTO law and dispute settlement; U.S.-Japan trade and economic issues, China trade and investment
Benjamin L. Liebman - Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; Director, Center for Chinese Legal Studies
Research Interests: Chinese law; medical disputes in China; popular access to the courts in China; the evolving roles of legal institutions and lawyers; environmental law; Chinese tort law
Literature & Film
Paul Anderer - Fred and Fannie Mack Professor of Humanities and Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature, film, and cultural criticism; narrative topography; city cultures; modern tragedy
Theodore Q. Hughes - The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director, Center for Korean Research
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Korean literature and film
Lydia H. Liu - The Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Research Interests: Modern Chinese literature and culture; critical translation theory; postcolonial theory; new empire studies; material culture, semiotics, and new media
Meg McLagan - Visiting Professor of Professional Practice, Barnard College
Research Interests: Tibetan Film Studies
John Phan - Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Vietnamese Writing Systems and Vernacular Scripts, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Contact between China and Vietnam.
Ying Qian - Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests:Chinese cinema and media studies and Chinese literature.
Wei Shang - Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Early Modern Chinese literature and cultural history
Haruo Shirane - Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Japanese literature, visual culture, and cultural history, with particular focus on the interaction between popular and elite cultures
Tomi Suzuki - Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature and criticism in comparative context; literary and cultural theory, particularly theory of narrative, genre and gender, modernism and modernity; intellectual history of modern Japan; history of reading, canon formation, and literary histories
Takuya Tsunoda - Assistant Professor of Japanese Film and Media, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Japanese cinema and media; educational and science film; history and theory of audio-visual pedagogy; media archaeology; cinematic modernism; new cinemas of the 1960s
Political Science
Thomas J. Christensen - Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA; Director, China and the World Program
Research Interests: China's foreign relations; international relations of East Asia; international security
Gerald L. Curtis - Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Department of Political Science; Director, Toyota Research Program
Research Interests: Modern Japanese politics, foreign policy, social change, political economy; East Asia international relations
Amy L. Freedman - Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Political Islam on Indonesia and Malaysia
Ronan Tse-min Fu - China & the World Program Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Research Interests: Chinese politics and foreign policy, East Asian security, international relations theory, and political psychology
Takako Hikotani - Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Department of Political Science
Research Interests: Civil-military relations and Japanese domestic politics; Japanese foreign policy; and comparative civil-military relations
Shigeo Hirano - Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science
Research Interests: Comparative politics; American politics; political economy; Japanese politics
Samuel S. Kim - Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Korean foreign relations and politics; Chinese foreign policy
Xiaobo Lü - Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science, Barnard College.
Research Interests: Political economy of post-socialist transition, political corruption, and Chinese politics
Duncan McCargo - Director, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Research Interests: Politics of Thailand, comparative politics of Southeast Asia
Ann Marie Murphy - Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Political development in Southeast Asia; U.S. foreign policy toward Southeast Asia
Andrew J. Nathan - Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science
Research Interests: Chinese politics and foreign policy; the comparative study of political participation and political culture; and human rights.
Stephen Noerper - Research Scholar
Research Interests: Korean politics, international relations, East Asian politics.
James D. Seymour - Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Politics of the PRC, especially Tibet and the northwest; comparative human rights
Michael Sharpe - Research Scholar
Research Interests: Comparative politics and international relations; Japanese politics; politics of migration; immigrant political incorporation; and political transnationalism
Elizabeth Wishnick - Senior Research Scholar.
Research Interests: Chinese foreign policy; nontraditional security in Asia; great power relations in Central Asia
Joel S. Wit - Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: U.S.-North Korea relations and foreign policy
Religion
Seong Uk Kim - Il Hwan and Soon Ja Cho Assistant Professor of Korean Culture and Religion in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Research Interests: Korean Buddhism, Religion and Politics
Chün-fang Yü - Sheng Yen Professor Emerita of Chinese Buddhism, Department of Religion and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Research Interests: Chinese Buddhism, East Asian religions, Buddhism and gender, Buddhism and modernization
Sociology
Qin Gao - Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work.
Research Interests: Poverty, inequality, social policies, and economic and subjective well-being in China and their international comparisons; International social and economic development; International program and impact evaluation; Rural-to-urban migration in China and Asian American immigrants
Kristy E. Kelly - Associate Research Scholar
Research Interests: Globalization/development/post-socialist transformation in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, gender and feminism studies, sociology of education, and politics of knowledge
Jinyu Liu - Assistant Professor of Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work
Research Interests: Mental health of older adults; psychological well-being of family caregivers in the social and cultural context of China; intergenerational relationships and depressive symptoms of Chinese older adults in the context of international migration
Yao Lu - Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology
Research Interests: Internal migration in China and Chinese immigration; collective resistance; public health; child development; labor market inequality
Mark Selden - Senior Research Scholar
Research Interests: Political economy and history of China, Japan, and the Asia Pacific; war and peace; revolution; inequality; development; regional and world social change; historical memory
Weiping Wu - Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Research Interests: Global urbanization, migration, housing, and infrastructure of Chinese cities
