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Anthropology

Nicholas Bartlett Assistant Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society, Barnard College.…
Myron L. Cohen Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology. Research Interests: Chinese culture…
Laurel Kendall Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: Korean History focusing on Shamans;…
Yukiko Koga Associate Research Scholar Research Interests: Political economy; historical anthropology; legal…
Eveline Washul Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Director, Modern Tibetan…
Eve Zucker Associate Research Scholar Research Interests: Cultural anthropology; the aftermath of…

Art History

Jonathan M. Reynolds Professor of Art History, Barnard College Research Interests: Japanese architecture…

Economics

Alex Eble Assistant Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College. Research Interests:…
Qin Gao Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Columbia School of…
Takatoshi Ito Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA; Associate Director…
Merit E. Janow Dean, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA); Professor…
Hugh T. Patrick Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business Emeritus; Director of…
Carl Riskin Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: Income distribution in China; poverty…
Dan Rosen Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA;…
Shang-Jin Wei N. T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and…
David Weinstein Carl Sumner Shoup Professor of Japanese Economics, Department of Economics;…

Education

Jim Cheng Director of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library. Research Interests:…
Alex Eble Assistant Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College. Research Interests:…
Kumiko Makihara Associate Research Scholar Research Interests: Comparative education, mass media, contemporary…
Roberta H. Martin Director, Asia for Educators; Director, Columbia University National Coordinating Site…
Chengzhi Wang Chinese Studies Librarian, C.V. Starr East Asian Library Research Interests:…

History

Daniel Asen Associate Research Scholar. Research Interests: History of law, science, and…
Kim Brandt Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Research Interests: Modern Japanese…
Kornel Chang Research Scholar. Research Interests: History of race, labor, migration, and…
Carol Gluck George Sansom Professor of History, Department of History and Department…
Harry Harootunian Senior Research Scholar. Research Interests: Early Modern and Modern Japanese…
Colin Jones Associate Research Scholar Research Interests: East Asian history; Japanese history;…
Mark A. Jones Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: The emergence of modern childhood…
Jungwon Kim King Sejong Assistant Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities,…
Dorothy Ko Professor of History, Barnard College Research Interests: History of women,…
Sarah Kovner Senior Research Scholar in the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of…
Paul Kreitman Assistant Professor of 20th Century Japanese History, Department of East…
Eugenia Lean Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Chinese history,…
Lien-Hang Nguyen Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United…
Gregory Pflugfelder Associate Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages…
Morris Rossabi Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: Mongolian history
Murray Rubinstein Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: Christianity in China and Taiwan;…
Orville Schell Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: Chinese History
Mark Selden Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: Political economy and history of…
Henry D. Smith II Professor Emeritus of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages…
Gray Tuttle Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies Research…
William Wooldridge Research Scholar Research Interests: History of East Asia; world history;…
Madeleine Zelin Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of History, Department…

Law

Michael C. Davis Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: Democracy, Governance, Human Rights, Conflict…
Nobuhisa Ishizuka Executive Director, Center for Japanese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School.…
Merit E. Janow Dean, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA); Professor…
Benjamin L. Liebman Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; Director,…

Literature & Film

Paul Anderer Fred and Fannie Mack Professor of Humanities and Professor of…
Theodore Q. Hughes The Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities,…
Lydia H. Liu The Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, Department of…
Meg McLagan Visiting Professor of Professional Practice, Barnard College Research Interests: Tibetan…
John Phan Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of…
Ying Qian Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of…
Wei Shang Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture, Department of East Asian…
Haruo Shirane Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages…
Tomi Suzuki Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and…
Takuya Tsunoda Assistant Professor of Japanese Film and Media, Department of East…

Political Science

Thomas J. Christensen Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA; Director, China…
Gerald L. Curtis Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Department of Political Science;…
Amy L. Freedman Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: Political Islam on Indonesia and…
Ronan Tse-min Fu China & the World Program Postdoctoral Research Scholar Research Interests:…
Takako Hikotani Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and…
Shigeo Hirano Associate Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science Research…
Samuel S. Kim Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: Korean foreign relations and politics;…
Xiaobo Lü Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science, Barnard College. Research…
Duncan McCargo Director, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science,…
Ann Marie Murphy Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: Political development in Southeast Asia;…
Andrew J. Nathan Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political…
Stephen Noerper Research Scholar Research Interests: Korean politics, international relations, East Asian…
James D. Seymour Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: Politics of the PRC, especially…
Michael Sharpe Research Scholar Research Interests: Comparative politics and international relations; Japanese…
Thomas Bernstein Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science Research Interests
Elizabeth Wishnick Senior Research Scholar. Research Interests: Chinese foreign policy; nontraditional security…
Joel S. Wit Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: U.S.-North Korea relations and foreign…

Religion

Alex Gardner Research Scholar Research Interests: Tibetan studies, Buddhist studies
Seong Uk Kim Il Hwan and Soon Ja Cho Assistant Professor of Korean…
Chün-fang Yü Sheng Yen Professor Emerita of Chinese Buddhism, Department of Religion…

Sociology

Qin Gao Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Columbia School of…
Kristy E. Kelly Associate Research Scholar Research Interests: Globalization/development/post-socialist transformation in Vietnam and…
Jinyu Liu Assistant Professor of Social Work, Columbia School of Social Work…
Yao Lu Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology Research Interests: Internal…
Mark Selden Senior Research Scholar Research Interests: Political economy and history of…
Weiping Wu Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning…
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