Asian Studies Faculty

Shreya Arora

Assistant Professor of Earth and Climate Science

Wesley B. Chaney

Associate Professor of History

Nathan C. Faries

Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Gina A. Fatone

Associate Professor of Music

cross-modality in music experience, embodied cognition and music, ethnomusicology, music and gesture, music transmission, systematic musicology

Yunkyoung Garrison

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Asian American psychology, Clinical Supervision, community engagement, Counseling Psychology, immigrant and refugee mental health, Immigrant Career and Mental Health, Race and Racism, Social Class and Classism, Sociopolitical Deveolpment, the myth of meritocracy, The Myth of Meritocracy, Women of Color

David R. George Jr.

Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies

19th and 20th century Iberian literatures and cultures, Asian studies, European studies, film and TV literary adaptations, Global Hispanophone Studies, Hispano-Asian studies, Iberian studies, Japanese studies, media studies, nineteenth-century studies, realist novel, travel narrative, travel writing

Leshui He

Associate Professor of Economics

industrial organization, integration and outsourcing, law and economics, organizational economics, peer-effects of students, property rights

Keiko Konoeda

Lecturer in Japanese

applied linguistics, critical media literacy, language pedagogy, project-based language teaching, technology and media in language teaching

Zhenzhen Lu

Assistant Professor of Chinese

archival research, chinese language pedagogy, cultural studies, dramatic literature, late imperial China, literature and history, manuscript studies, material culture, performance studies, popular culture, vernacular literatures of East Asia

Hanna S. McGaughey

Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Asian Studies

gender studies, Japanese studies, Muromachi performing arts, Noh theater, perfomring arts, premodern studies, Zeami

Alison Melnick

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

18th Century Tibetan History, Asian religious history, Chinese borderland religions, Gender and Authority in Tibet, gender and religion, Hagiography in Asian contexts, Privilege studies, Religion and Gender in Asia, Religions of China, Religions of South Asia, Tibetan religion, Tibetan religion and history

Li-Ping Miao

Lecturer in Chinese

Trian Nguyen

Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture

Asian art history, Daoist ceremonial paintings, East Asian ceramic, Thich Quang Duc’s self-immolation and his impact, Vietnamese Buddhist sculpture

Justine K. Wiesinger

Associate Professor of Japanese