AFFILIATED FACULTY - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

AFFILIATED FACULTY 

Name Department Research Interests Link 

Japan Faculty 

Andrew Barshay History Modern Japan http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Barshay/ 

Mary Elizabeth Berry History Premodern Japan http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Berry/ 

Peter C. Bosselmann Architecture Urban design and planning http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/ced/people/ 

Clair Brown 

Dana Buntrock 

Economics 

Architecture 

Employment, training,wage 

systems in US and Japanese 

firms; innovation and creativity 

in high-tech industries; hightech 

labor markets; status 

consumption and income 

distribution 

http://elsa.berkeley.edu/econ/faculty/brown_c.shtml 

The construction industry, with 

a special interest in architectural http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/ced/people/ 

practice in Japan 

Michael Gerlach 

Business 

Japan, international business, 

strategy and policy 

http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/gerlach.html 

Nelson H.H. Graburn 

Anthropology 

Social structure and kinship, 

ethnic arts, tourism, museums; 

Circumpolar peoples, Japan 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/graburn.html 

Junko Habu 

Anthropology 

Hunter-gatherer subsistence and 

settlement, prehistoric Jomon 

hunter-gatherers in Japan, East 

Asian archaeology, ceramic http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/habu.html 

analysis, historical archaeology 

in Japan, archaeology and 

society 

Yoko Hasegawa EALC Japanese linguistics http://ealc.berkeley.edu/people/facultyprofiles.htm



H. Mack Horton EALC 

Premodern Japanese language 

and literature, classical poetry 

and diary literature 

http://ealc.berkeley.edu/people/facultyprofiles.htm 

Gregory P. Levine 

History of Art 

Japanese art and architecture, 

Japanese Zen Buddhist art and 

architecture 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/arthistory/faculty/levine.html 

James R. Lincoln 

Business 

Japan's changing business 

networks and corporate 

governance system 

http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/lincoln/ 

Russell Merritt 

Film Studies 

Silent film, Japanese film 

(particularly Ozu Yasajiro), 

animation, film and children's 

lore, French film, German film, 

and Disney's 1930s work 

http://filmstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/merrit.html 

D. Cuong O'Neill EALC 

The novel in comparative 

perspective, global modernisms, 

and critical theory; Meiji print 


culture and literature, Taisho 

aesthetics, postwar intellectual 

history and popular culture 

T.J. Pempel 

Political Science 

Comparative politics, political 

economy, contemporary Japan, 

Asian regionalism 

http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/bio/permanent/Pempel,T/



Miryam Sas 

Comparative 

Literature, Film 

20th century experimental arts, 

including literature, film theater, 

and dance, with an emphasis in 

http://filmstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/sas.html 

Japanese, French and 

comparative literatures and 

cultures 

Harry N. Scheiber 

Irwin Scheiner 

Law 

History 

Japanese-U.S. relations and 

ocean policy, Japanese fisheries 

law and development, Americanhttp://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/ 

legal history, modern judicial 

reform 

Japan, Kinsei and Kindai, 

intellectual and social 

http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Scheiner/ 

Alan Tansman 

EALC 

Modern Japanese literature and 

culture 


Laura D. Tyson 

Economics 

Changes in US trade policy and 

US-Japan relations; changes in 

the international economy with 

special focus on hightechnology 

competition 

http://elsa.berkeley.edu/econ/faculty/tyson_l.shtml 

Steven K. Vogel 

Political economy of the 

Political Science advanced industrialized nations, http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/bio/permanent/Vogel,S/ 

especially Japan 

Bonnie Wade 

Music 

Ethnomusicology, Asian music 

with emphasis on India 

(particularly North India) and 

East Asia (particularly Japan) 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/music/Wade.html



Charles D. Weisselberg 

Duncan Ryuken Williams 

Law 

EALC 

Criminal procedure, 

immigration law, clinical legal 

education, Japanese educational http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/ 

reform and clinical legal 

education programs 

Japanese Buddhist history, 

Buddhism and 


environmentalism, and 

American Buddhism 

Janet Yellen 

Economics 

Stablilization policy in the US 

and Japan; unemployment, 

monetary and fiscal policy 

http://elsa.berkeley.edu/econ/faculty/yellen_j.shtml 

John Zysman 

China Faculty 


European and Japanese policy 

and corporate strategy, 

comparative politics, political 

economy 

http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/ 

Robert Ashmore 

EALC 

Chinese literature of the 3rd- 

11th centuries, lyric poetry and 

poetic theory, song and musical 


performance, and traditional 

concepts of identity and 

personality 

Patricia Berger 


Chinese Buddhist art; Asian 

architecture, sculpture and 

painting 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/arthistory/faculty/berger.html 

Robert C. Berring, Jr. 

Law 

Chinese law, contracts, legal 

research 

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/



Julian Chun-Chung Chow 

Social Welfare 

Community practice, service 

delivery, urban poverty, 

Chinese migrant communities 

http://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/faculty/chow.htm 

Mark Csikszentmihalyi 

EALC 

Uses excavated and transmitted 

texts to reconstruct the 

religions, philosophies, and 

cultures of early China 


Jacob Dalton 

EALC, SSEAS 

Nyingma religious history, 

tantric ritual, paleography, and 

the Dunhuang manuscripts 

http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/people/faculty_profiles.html 

Lowell Dittmer 

Political 

Science 

Contemporary China; the 

impact of reform on Chinese 

Communist authority, patterns 

of informal politics in East 

Asia, the China-Taiwan-US 

triangle in the context of East 

Asian regional politics 

http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/bio/permanent/Dittmer,L/ 

Barry Eichengreen 

Economics 

Asian integration and 

development with a focus on 

exchange rates and financial 

markets; the impact of China on 

the international economic and 

financial system; IMF policy 

http://elsa.berkeley.edu/econ/faculty/eichengreen_b.shtml 

Thomas Gold 

Sociology 

Modernization and 

development, globalization, 

http://sociology.berkeley.edu/profiles/gold/ 

comparative institutions, Pacific 

Rim societies, China, culture



S. Katharine Hammond Public Health 

Asthmatic children and workers 

in China, health effects from the http://sph.berkeley.edu/faculty/hammond.php 

combustion of smoky coal 

Heather Haveman 

Sociology 

Organizational theory, 

economic sociology, 

entrepreneurship, organization 

http://sociology.berkeley.edu/profiles/haveman/ 

demography, gender, careers 

and social mobility, transition of 

firms in China 

You-tien Hsing 

Geography 

Economic restructuring and 

local states in post-Mao China, 

overseas Chinese capital 

networks, technology 

development in Asia's newly 

industrialized economies 

http://geography.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.phpperson=10 

David G. Johnson 

History 

Middle-Period China; Chinese 

popular culture 

http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Johnson/ 

Andrew F. Jones 

EALC 

Chinese music, cinema, media 

technology, modern and 

contemporary fiction, children's http://ealc.berkeley.edu/people/facultyprofiles.htm 

literature, and the cultural 

history of the global 1960s 

Hong Yong Lee 


Domestic Politics of China and 

Korea, political economy and 

international relations in East 

Asia 

http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/bio/permanent/Lee,H/



Xin Liu 

Anthropology 

Social/cultural anthropology, 

history and/of anthropology, 

contemporary trends in social 

theory, development and social 

change, China/East Asia. 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/liu.html 

Peter Lorentzen 

Political economy and economic 

Political Science growth in developing countries, http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/bio/permanent/Lorentzen,P/ 

with a focus on China 

Stanley Lubman Law Chinese law http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/ 

James Midgley 


Social development, 

international and comparative 

social welfare, social policy, 

social security, social work 

education 

http://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/faculty/midgley.htm 

Michael Nylan 

History 

Early China, emphasis on 

sociopolitical context, aesthetic 

theories, material culture and 

belief 

http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Nylan/ 

Kevin O'Brien 


Chinese politics in the reform 

era, theories of popular 

http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/bio/permanent/OBrien,K/ 

contention, "rightful resistance" 

in rural China 

Kaiping Peng 

Psychology 

Culture and social cognition, 

decision making, responsibility 

judgment, culture and social http://culcog.berkeley.edu/peng.html 

self, centrality of individual self 

and cultural identity



Yingyi Qian 

Economics 

Comparative Economics; 

Economics of Organization and 

Institutions; Economics of 

http://elsa.berkeley.edu/econ/faculty/qian_y.shtml 

Transition and Development; 

China's Economic Reform and 

Development 

William Schaefer 

EALC 

Modern Chinese literature and 

culture, histories and theories of 

photography in China, relations 


between verbal and visual 

representations, Chinese and 

global modernisms 

Robert Sharf 

EALC 

Medieval Chinese Buddhism 

(especially Chan), Japanese 

Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual 

studies, and methodological 

issues in the study of religion 

http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/sharf/ 

Paula Varsano 

EALC 

Classical poetry and poetics 

from the 3rd-11th centuries; 

literature and subjectivity; the 

evolution of spatial 


representation in poetry; history 

and poetics of traditional 

literary criticism; theory and 

practice of translation



Sophie Volpp 

EALC, Comp 

Literature 

Chinese literature of the 17th- 

19th centuries; history of 

performance, gender theory, 

history of sexuality, 

representation of material 

culture 


Carolyn Wakeman Journalism Modern China, North Korea http://journalism.berkeley.edu/faculty/wakeman/ 

Wen-Hsin Yeh History 20th-century China http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Yeh/ 

Yu-Wen Ying 


Asian American mental health, 

immigrant and refugee family 

relationships, ethnic identity 

formation 

http://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/faculty/ying.htm 

Qing Zhou 

Korea Faculty 

Psychology 

Developmental 

psychopathology, cultural 

influences on socio-emotional 

development 

http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/qzhou.html 

Hong Yong Lee 


Domestic Politics of China and 

Korea, political economy and 

international relations in East 

Asia 

http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/bio/permanent/Lee,H/ 

John Lie 

Sociology 

Social theory, sociological 

imagination, Korean diasporic 

trajectories 

http://sociology.berkeley.edu/profiles/lie/



Jiwon Shin 

South Asia Faculty 

Paola Bacchetta 

Pranab K. Bardhan 

EALC 

Gender & 

Women's 

Studies 

Economics 

Intersection of literature and 

cartographic imagination; 

conceptions of urban culture 


and literary coteries; early 

modern print culture; nationalist 

aesthetics 

Transnational feminist theory 

and practices, transnational 

queer of color theories and 

practices, gender, sexuality, 

http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty/paola.html 

racializations, and 

postcolonialities in political and 

religious conflict, social 

movements, India, France 

Indian economic development, 

political economy and the state 

in developing countries; 

economics of governance, http://elsa.berkeley.edu/econ/faculty/bardhan_p.shtml 

democracy and decentralization; 

economic theory of institutions 

in economic development 

Mark Bevir 


Anglophone, continental, and 

South Asian thought, especially 

radical, socialist, and critical 

theory of the 19th and 20th http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/bio/permanent/Bevir,M/ 

centuries; modern political 

thought, political philosophy, 

governance



Pradeep Chhibber 


Party systems, party 

aggregation, and the politics of 

India 

http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/bio/permanent/Chhibber,P/ 

Lawrence Cohen 

Anthropology 

South Asia, medical, sexuality, 

religion, gerontology 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/cohen.html 

Vasudha Dalmia 

SSEAS 

Politics of religious discourse, 

transitional cultural phenomena 

of the 17th, 18th and 19th 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/sseas/people/faculty.html 

centuries, modern Indian 

theatre, women in transitional 

culture 

Prachi Deshpande History South Asia http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Deshpande/ 

Munis D. Faruqui 

SSEAS 

Islam and the Muslim 

experience in South Asia, state 

formation, imperial power, and 

dynastic decline in 16th and 

17th century South Asia 


Robert P. Goldman 

SSEAS 

Sanskrit literature and literary 

theory, Indian Epic Studies, 

psychoanalytically oriented 

cultural studies 


Sally J. Sutherland Goldman SSEAS 

Women's studies, epic and 

classical Sanskrit literature, 

vyakarana/Sanskrit grammar, 

Veda 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/sseas/people/faculty.html



George L. Hart 

SSEAS 

Tamil literature, premodern 

Tamil and its relationship to 

classical Sanskrit, South Indian 

religion and culture 


Kausalya Hart 

SSEAS 

Tamil, South Indian music, 

dance, and culture, Tamil 

literature 


Eugene F. Irschick 

History 

South Asia: modern India, 

agrarian relations 

http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Irschick/ 

Saba Mahmood 

Manoj Mate 

Raka Ray 

Anthropology 

Law 

SSEAS 

Social/Cultural anthropology; 

anthropology of subject 

formation, liberalism and 

secular modernity; feminist and http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/mahmood.html 

poststructuralist theory; religion 

and politics; Islam, the Middle 

East, and South Asia 

International and comparative 

law, judicial politics, terrorism, 

international security, civil 

rights and equality, judicial 

decision-making in the State 

High Courts of India and the 

rule of law 

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/ 

Gender, inequality, cultures of 

servitude, power and 

marginality, qualitative research http://sociology.berkeley.edu/profiles/ray/ 

methods, social movements, 

India



Jeffrey Romm 

ESPM 

South and Southeast Asia, 

forest, water and wildland 

policy 

http://ecnr.berkeley.edu/facPage/dispFP.phpI=634 

Hephzibah Sunkari 

Susan Ubbelohde 

Alexander von Rospatt 

SSEAS 

Architecture 

SSEAS 

Telugu language, Buddhism, 

religious tolerance, onamastics, 

cultural and linguistic problems http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/sseas/people/faculty.html 

of translations, South Indian 

music 

Climate and Architecture (le 

Corbusier, Kahn, Correa, 

http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/ced/people/ 

Doshi, India, culture and 

practice) 

Doctrinal history of Indian and 

Newar Buddhism 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/sseas/people/cv_vonrospatt.html 

Bonnie Wade 

Music 

Ethnomusicology, Asian music 

with emphasis on India 

(particularly North India) and 

East Asia (particularly Japan) 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/music/Wade.html 

Joanna Williams 

Southeast Asia Faculty 

History of Art, 

SSEAS 

South Asian and Southeast 

Asian sculpture and painting 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/arthistory/faculty/williams.html 

Joan Bieder Journalism Jewish community in Singapore http://journalism.berkeley.edu/faculty/bieder/ 

Benjamin Brinner 

Music 

Ethnomusicology, musical 

cognition, dynamics of 

interaction among performers, http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/music/Brinner.html 

particularly in Indonesian music 

(Central Java and Bali)



Richard M. Buxbaum 

Catherine Ceniza Choy 

David Cohen 

Law 

Ethnic Studies 

Rhetoric 

Corporation law, comparative 

and international economic law, http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/ 

Indonesia 

Philippine and Filipino 

American studies; comparative 

ethnic studies; Asian American 

history; cultures of U.S. 

imperialism; immigration; 

transnationalism 

http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty/choy/ 

Social theory, legal and social 

history, legal philosophy, 

http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/david_cohen.html 

international law, human rights, 

East Timor 

Penelope Edwards 

SSEAS 

Cambodia, Burma, Southeast 

Asian modern literary and print 

cultures, Buddhism, gender, 

French colonialism, 

nationalism, race theory, urban 

studies, and Chinese diaspora 


Laurel Fletcher 

Law 

Transitional justice and 

humanitarian law, globalization 

and migration, human rights http://www.law.berkeley.edu/php-programs/faculty/ 

impacts of Hurricane Katrina 

and the 2004 tsunami 

Jeffrey Hadler 

SSEAS 

History and culture of 

Southeast Asia with a focus on 

Indonesia 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/sseas/people/faculty.html



Gillian Hart 

Geography 

Political economy, social 

theory, critical development 

studies, gender, agrarian and 

regional studies, labor, 

Southeast Asia 

http://geography.berkeley.edu/people/ 

Susan F. Kepner 

Patrick Kirch 

SSEAS 

Anthropology 

Thai language and literature, 

20th century japanese women 

writers, comparative studies of 


early modern and contemporary 

Japanese and Southeast Asian 

women writers 

Social/Cultural anthropology of 

the Pacific Islands, Melanesia 

and Polynesia; interactions 

between people and island 

ecosystems 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/kirch.html 

Madhuri Messenger 

Law 

International legal work, 

development NGOs, 

international organizations, 

judicial integrity in Indonesia, 

rule of law in the Philippines 


Aihwa Ong 

Anthropology, 

SSEAS 

Cultural anthropology, political 

economy, gender and sexuality, 

colonialism, nationalism, 

transnationalism, citizenship http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/ong.html 

and U.S. Asian immigrants; 

Southeast Asia, South China, 

contemporary U.S.



Nancy Lee Peluso 

ESPM 

Resource and development 

issues in Indonesia and 

Southeast Asia 


Jeffrey Romm 

ESPM 

South and Southeast Asia, 

forest, water and wildland 

policy 


Frank Smith 

SSEAS 

Khmer language, Khmer 

peasant interpretations of the 

Khmer Rouge, the in-group 

culture of Thai sex workers 


Sylvia Tiwon 

SSEAS 

Indonesia, national and prenational 

literatures, oral 

discourse and mythologies, http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/sseas/people/faculty.html 

socio-cultural formations at the 

national and sub-national levels 

Khatharya Um 

Ethnic Studies 

Politics and developments in 

Southeast Asia, esp. Indochina; 

refugee and migration studies 

http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty/um/ 

Joanna Williams 


South Asian and Southeast 

Asian sculpture and painting 

http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/arthistory/faculty/williams.html 

Peter B. Zinoman 

History, SSEAS 

Southeast Asian History: 

Vietnam 

http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Zinoman/



Asian Studies-General 

Vinod K. Aggarwal 


International politics of trade, 

international finance (focus on 

Latin American and Asia), 

comparative public policy, 

rational choice and bargaining 

theory 

http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/faculty/bio/permanent/Aggarwal,V/ 

Trinh T. Minh-ha 

Lynn Nichols 

Jamie O'Connell 

Kate O'Neill 

Dara O'Rourke 

Gender & 

Women's 

Studies 

Linguistics 

Law 

ESPM 

ESPM 

Postcolonial theory, flim theory, 

feminist theory, Eastern 

http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/trinh_tminhha.html 

philosophy, ethnomusicology, 

visual culture, cultural politics 

South Asian, Southeast Asian, 

and East Asian languages, Zuni http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/ 

Human rights and dvelopment 

in Africa, the Americas, Asia 

and Europe. Transnational 

justice, post-conflict 

reconstruction, democratic 

political development, business 

and human rights 

How the international 

community deals with global 

enviromental problems, 

particularly various sites and 

modes of global environmental 

governance 

Environmental, social, and 

health impacts of global 

production networks and supply 

chains 



http://ecnr.berkeley.edu/facPage/dispFP.phpI=625



Eleanor Rosch 

Psychology 

Cognition, Concepts, Causality, 

Cross-Cultural, Eastern 

psychologies, psychologies of 

religion/Buddhism 

http://psychology.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/erosch.html 

David E. Winickoff 

ESPM 

Politics of health and 

environment, the governance of 

new technologies and the 

mutual formation of knowledge http://ecnr.berkeley.edu/facPage/dispFP.phpI=644 

and social structure; 

International environmental and 

health regimes 

EALC= East Asian Languages and Cultures 

SSEAS= South and Southeast Asian Studies 

ESPM= Environmental Science and Policy Management

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