Expertise
For an alphabetical listing of faculty, please click here.
China
- Hsuyin Chang - Teaching Chinese as a second language.
- Jonathan Chaves –
Chinese and Japanese culture and literature.
- Alice Cheang - Chinese literature.
- Donald C. Clarke -
Chinese legal institutions and the legal issues presented by China's economic reforms.
- Bruce Dickson – Government and politics of China, Taiwan, and East Asia.
- Molly Spitzer Frost – Chinese culture through films and literature.
- Harry Harding – Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy, U.S.-China relations; U.S. policy toward the Asia-Pacific, APEC.
- Peter Hotez -
Vaccine development for parasitic and tropical diseases, the role of vaccines in international diplomacy, China.
- James Kilpatrick – Economies of China and Japan, APEC.
- Davis Lin-Chuan Lee – Chinese language and linguistics.
- Jin Liu - Chinese language.
- Lynda Maddox -
China, Advertising, Consumer behavior, Communications, Focus group research, Marketing management, Experiential learning.
- Edward McCord – Modern Chinese history; socio-political history; civil-military relations.
- Thomas Michael – East Asian religions.
- David Shambaugh –
Chinese politics and foreign policy; U.S.-China relations; China's
military and security; international relations of the Asia-Pacific
region.
- Robert J. Shepherd - Tourism, cultural heritage issues, side effects of market changes in China
- Robert Sutter – Politics and foreign relations of Taiwan; international politics of East Asia; U.S. policy towards Asia.
- Bing-Sheng Teng -
China, Strategic management, Strategic alliances, Cooperative and competitive
strategies, Risk issues in management, Strategic decision making,
International management.
- Richard Thorton – U.S. foreign policy; Sino-Russian relations.
- Miaochun Wei - Language pedagogy, second language acquisition, pragmatics
- Richard Windsor -
Evaluation of health promotion-disease prevention programs, China.
- Mei Wu - Chinese language.
- Jiawen Yang –
Business environment in China.
- Guofang Yi - Chinese language.
- Phyllis Ni Zhang –
Chinese language and culture, pedagogy, and technology.
Korea
- Gregg Brazinsky – American relations with Japan and Korea; US-Korean relations 1950-1960.
- John Finch - Korean culture.
- R. Richard Grinker – Contemporary Korea; sociocultural anthropology; nationalism & ethnicity.
- Young C. Kim – Japanese and Korean domestic politics and foreign relations; Russian relations with East Asia; and East Asian foreign relations.
- Young-Key Kim-Renaud – Korean language, linguistics, and humanities.
- Young Hoon Kwak -
Korea, Project Management and Control, Risk Management, Technology Management, Construction Management.
- Miok Pak - Korean language syntax, semantics, morphology, pedagogy and second language acquisition
- Yoon-Shik Park -
Korea, International banking, International financial markets, Multi-lateral development banks, Financial institutions.
Japan
- Wakana K. Cavanaugh - Japanese language.
- Jonathan Chaves – Chinese and Japanese culture and literature.
- Shoko Hamano – Japanese language and linguistics, semantics, and phonology.
- I. Leopold Hanami – Modern and classical Japanese, classical Japanese poetry and poetics.
- D. Christopher Kayes -
How Japanese and U.S. managers learn across cultures.
- James Kilpatrick – Economies of China and Japan, APEC.
- Young C. Kim – Japanese and Korean domestic politics and foreign relations; Russian relations with East Asia; and East Asian foreign relations.
- Mike Mochizuki – Japanese foreign policy and domestic politics, U.S.-Japan relations, international relations in East Asia.
- Henry Nau – U.S. foreign economic policy; international political economy; science, technology, and international affairs.
- Mitsuyo Sato - Japanese language.
- Amy Searight –
Japanese politics and foreign policy; international
political economy;
East Asian regional economic relations.
- Rika Seya - Japanese language.
- Takae Tsujioka - Japanese language.
- Daqing Yang – Modern Japanese history; history of Japan's foreign relations; history of telecommunications in East Asia.
South Asia
- Martin Adelman - Patent law, India
- Prabir Bagchi - Logistics, supply chain management, production, and operations management, South Asia
- Shamnad Basheer - Patents and developing countries and the interface between patents and antitrust, India
- Elizabeth Chacko –
Regional Development, South Asia.
- Kavita Daiya - Cultural representations in various media, in relation to historical, theoretical and anthropological accounts of colonial and postcolonial experience, in India, South Asia, and around the world
- Herbert Davis -
Strategic management in developing country environments; Regional areas of expertise include South and Southeast Asia.
- Shahe Emran - Development economics, public economics, international economics, applied econometrics, Bangladesh
- Muhiuddin Haider -
Health communications,
infrastructure development, training, capacity building,
and healthcare reform; South and East Asia.
- Balaji Hebbar - Hindu and Indian philosophy, linguistics, world religions and religious history, Sanskrit as well as many Indologically oriented subjects and languages
- Alfred Hiltebeitel – The great epics of India; regional folk epics;
South Asian history and the history of religions.
- Karl Inderfurth – U.S.-South Asian Relations; National Security Council; United Nations and Peacekeeping; disarmament, security affairs.
- Shivraj Kanungo - Outsourcing and software development, India.
- Dane Kennedy - British Empire, colonialism in Africa and India, Modern Britain
- Marilyn Merritt - Language and media in public places and spaces; creativity, interdisciplinarity, and social change; situated discourse analysis; ritual and civility; education and visual literacies; cross-cultural understanding and scientific collaboration, India
- Barbara Miller -
Medical anthropology, South Asia.
- Deepa Ollapally – South Asia; South Asia security; U.S. foreign policy; gender issues in international politics.
- Judith Plotz - British romanticism, children's literature, Indian literature in English
- Pradeep Rau -
India, Marketing research, Marketing strategy, International marketing.
- Inder Sud - Economic development in developing countries, South Asia
- Emmanuel Teitelbaum -
South Asian politics and development.
Southeast Asia
- Alasdair Bowie – Comparative politics of Southeast Asia; politics of development.
- Herbert Davis - Strategic management in developing country environments; Regional areas of expertise include South and Southeast Asia.
- Joel Kuipers – Cultures of Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian development.
- Shawn McHale –
Southeast Asian history, colonialism.
- Janet Steele -
History of Journalism; Ideology and Professional Practices of
Journalism; The Press in Modern Indonesia; Narrative Journalism; Media
in the Developing World.
Special Topics
- Maggie Xiaoyang Chen-International trade, regionalism, technical barriers to trade, and intellectual property rights.
- Andrew Jared Critchfield- The impact of organizational culture and personal identity - especially
those marginalized due to hegemonic structures - upon organizational
success and effectiveness; the effects of policy and “rules” on custom
and culture.
- William Cummings -
International Education and Development, Models of Socioeconomic Development, Asia.
- Richard F. Southby -
Comparative health systems and public health policy.
- Ronald Spector -
20th Century war and diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific.
- John Wang - East Asian calligraphy.
- Liang (Larry) Yu -
Hotel management; Tourism in Asia.