Members Alphabetically

Name	Department	Specialization	Contact
Taner Akcam	History	Ottoman and Turkish History, Armenian Genocide, Middle East Sociology	612-824-7399 takcam@umn.edu
Joseph Allen	Asian Languages & Literature	China, Chinese poetry, ethnicity in Asia, ethnic tension, Taipei City	612-625-0122 jrallen@umn.edu
Mark Anderson	Asian Languages & Literature	Japanese film, Japanese literature, Japanese modernity, Marxian theory, the Phonograph, Empire and Japanese Culture, Japanese popular music and media, Japanese media studies, Imperialism and culture in Japan and the U.S., culture and globalization, critique of neoconservatism in a global context.	612-626-8143 ander025@umn.edu
Fionnuala Ni Aolain	Law School	International Law and Human Rights Law	612-624-2318 niaol002@umn.edu
Catherine B. Asher	Art History	Afghanistan art, Hindu monuments, imperial patronage, India, Indian art, Indian sculpture, Islamic and South Asian Art and Culture, Muslim art, temples, the construction of public monuments, Islamic art.	612-626-8339 asher001@umn.edu
Frederick M. Asher	Art History	India, sculpture and architecture of South Asia, South Asian Art, trade patterns, violence in South Asia, contested space in South Asia.	612-624-4500 asher@umn.edu
Iraj Bashiri	Linguistics and Asian and Slavic Languages	Afghanistan, Central Asian Studies, communism, history, religion, and ideology of Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, Iranian linguistics and literature, Islam, Middle East, Persian, Sadeq Hedayat, Tajik-Uzbek conflict, Taliban, Firdowsi and His Shahnameh, Islam and the West	612-331-3988 bashi001@umn.edu
William O. Beeman	Anthropology	Peasant and nomadic societies, philosophic anthropology, action anthropology, paralinguistic and nonlinguistic semiotics, sociolinguistics and the semantics of interaction, cross-cultural comparison of theatrical and performance genres, opera	612-624-8990 wbeeman@umn.edu
Ritu Bhatt	School of Architecture	History and theory of modernism, design cognition, aesthetics, cultural theory, and historiography of architecture in the Indian subcontinent	612-626-7536 bhatt017@umn.edu
Yanjie Bian	Sociology	Structural sociology, with a special interest in social stratification and mobility, economic sociology, social networks, and contemporary Chinese societies in East Asia	612-624-9554 bianx001@umn.edu
Hisham Bizri	Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature	Exile, memory, and identity, modernist film, literature, and music, avant-garde film, Arabic thought and poetry, filmmaking	612-625-8450 612-624-8099 hbizri@umn.edu
Timothy Andres Brennan	Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature	Theories of globalization, translation theory, postcolonial theory, music of the African Diaspora, continental literary and cultural theory, 19th and 20th-century comparative literature	612-626-1638 612-624-8099 brenn032@umn.edu
Jeffrey Broadbent	Sociology, Istitute for Global Studies (IGS)	Japanese society, East Asian society, Comparative sociology, culture and structure, environmental sociology, Japanese society, networks and identity, political sociology, qualitative methods, social movements, East Asian society	612-624-1828 broad001@umn.edu
Teri Caraway	Political Science	Comparative political economy of labor, transnational labor issues, Southeast Asian politics, gender and comparative politics	caraway@umn.edu
Giancarlo Casale	History	Ottoman Empire and modern Middle East, pre-modern and early modern world history	612-626-4265 casale@umn.edu
Tsan-Kuo Chang	Journalism and Mass Communication	China Media, international communication, news, sociology of knowledge, theory and methodology, mass media and foreign policy	612-626-7754 chang003@umn.edu
David W. Chapman	Educational Policy and Administration	International education development	612-626-8728 chapm026@umn.edu
Ananya Chatterjea	Theatre Arts and Dance	Asian, Indian, and Africanist Dance, dance education, classical and folk dance forms, aesthetics, movement, women's studies, choreography and performance	612-626-2280 ananya@umn.edu
Leo Chen	Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature	Intellectual histories of media and visual culture, Theories of aesthetics and globalization, Comparative studies of national cinemas, Film history and theory, Chinese cinemas	612-625-8443 612-624-8099 leogriv@umn.edu
Hangtae Cho	Asian Languages and Literature	Korean Linguistics and Phonology and its interfaces	612-626-0378 612-624-2304 choxx023@umn.edu
John J. Cogan	Educational Policy and Administration	Citizenship education and education reform, emphasis in Asian education systems	612-625-1896 cogan002@umn.edu
Kathleen A. Collins	Political Science	Comparative politics, democratization/political transition and identity politics, Islam and politics, comparative post-Soviet politics, clan politics and informal institutions, civil and ethnic conflict, civil society development in Central Asia and the Caucasus	colli433@umn.edu 612-626-1672
Zuleyha Colak	Institute of Linguistics, ESL and Slavic	Turkish Language	612-624-3331 colak003@umn.edu
Susan Craddock	Womens' Studies/Institute for Global Studies (IGS)	AIDS and disease, health, social justice.	612-624-6006 craddock@umn.edu
Nhat Dang	Asian Languages and Literature	Vietnamese Language, Translation and interpretation	612-625-6534 dang00236@umn.edu
Ryota Deguchi	Asian Languages and Literature	Japanese language	deguc001@umn.edu
Jigna Desai	Womens' Studies, American Studies, and Asian Languages and Literatures	Asian American literature and cultural studies, feminist theory, postcolonial studies, queer/sexuality studies, South Asian diasporas, South Asian Film	612-624-0363 612-624-6006 desai003@umn.edu
Keiko Emmett	Asian Languages and Literature	Japanese language	612-626-9481 emme0007@umn.edu
Kale Bantigue Fajardo	American Studies	Globalization and Filipino/a Diaspora, Filipino/a migration and immigration to the Americas, maritime cultures and history, Philippine nationalisms, colonialism	612-624-4190 kfajardo@umn.edu
Caesar Elie Farah	History	Arab and Ottoman history, Arabic & Islamic studies, Middle East, society and culture of people of the Fertile Crescent and North Africa	612-624-0580 farah001@umn.edu
Edward Lewis Farmer	History	Comparative early modern history, history of Ming China, modern Chinese history, world history & global studies	612-624-7301 efarmer@umn.edu
Gerald M. Fry	Educational Policy and Administration	International development education, emphasis in Southeast Asia	612-624-0294 gwf@umn.edu
Kyoko Fujimoto	Asian Languages and Literature	Japanese language	612-626-9481 fujim002@umn.edu
Keya Ganguly	Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature	British cultural studies, South Asian film and culture, Frankfurt school, sociology of culture, Postcolonial theory, Marxism, film studies, ethnography	612-625-5871 612-624-8099 gangu003@umn.edu
Vinay Krishin Gidwani	Geography, Institute for Global Studies (IGS)	Post-socialism and justice, labor geographies, Marxism, identity politics and subaltern social movements, geographies of work, agroecological transformations, social theory, India	612-625-1397 gidwa002@umn.edu
Michael Goldman	Sociology, Institute for Global Studies (IGS)	Political sociology, environmental sociology, development/underdevelopment, sociology of knowledge, South and Southeast Asia, transnational sociology	mgoldman@umn.edu
Ian Greaves	School of Public Health	Lung disorders, global health issues	612-624-6196 612-624-6669 greav001@umn.edu
Carol Hakim	History	Nationalism and intellectual history, state formation, state-society relations, and authoritarianism in the Arab world, political and economic development of the Arab world in the late 19th- and 20th-centuries	612-624-9043 hakimc@umn.edu
Karen Z. Ho	Anthropology	Asian American Studies, ethnography, feminist studies, gender studies, global capitalism, global finance, political economy, urban anthropology.	612-626-1313 karenho@umn.edu
Maki Isaka	Asian Languages and Literature	Japanese theatre and literature, esotericism in Japanese art	isaka@umn.edu
Qadri M. Ismail	English Language and Literature	Disciplinarity, Feminist theory, Marxism, postcolonial literature and theory, historiography, democracy	612-625-6374 ismai004@umn.edu
Yaliang Jin	Asian Languages and Literature	Modern Chinese	612-624-2366 jinx0017@umn.edu
Indira Y. Junghare	Institute for Linguistics, ESL and Slavic	Hinduism of Midwest, Religions of South Asia, Hindi, Buddhism, international studies, linguistics, Marathi, Sanskrit, regional languages and literatures of India, Indian culture, comparative religions of South Asia	612-624-4118 jungh001@umn.edu
Daniel Kelliher	Political Science	Rural China and Peasant Politics, Comparative politics	612-624-1671 kelliher@umn.edu
Hisham A. Khalek	Afro-American, African Studies	Languages and cultures of Middle East and North Africa, Comparative International Development in Education, Politics, Government, and Society of the Arab World	612-624-7809 hkhalek@umn.edu
Jean Marie Langford	Anthropology	Tourism and the commodification of culture, poststructuralism and semiotics, immigrant perspectives on medical and mortuary disciplines of death, healing practices and medicine, epistemological conflicts of colonial and postcolonial encounters, haunting and historical memory	612-625-4092 langf001@umn.edu
Diyah Larasati	Theater Arts & Dance	Dance and Performing Arts in Global Culture; Dancing Body, Tourism & Female Citizenship; Genocide/ Massacres Cultural Reconstruction; Memory of Violence and Creative Project in Post Conflict/ War Zone (Asia); Politics of Human Rights and Creative Arts; dance, Asia global culture, post conflict, identity politics	laras001@umn.edu
Erika Lee	History	Migration, Race, and Ethnicity, Asian Americans, 20th-century United States, Law and Public Policy	erikalee@tc.umn.edu
Mai Na Lee	History	Hmong students and Asian culture	leex2701@umn.edu
Richard M. Lee	Psychology	Counseling psychology, ethnic minority mental health, cultural socializationg, acculturation and ethnic identity, transracial adoption, social connectedness.	612-625-6357 richlee@umn.edu
Maxwell LeYang	Asian Languages and Literature	Hmong Language	612-625-6534 leyan001@umn.edu
David Lipset	Anthropology	State of the Pacific, ongoing interest in relation of democratic political discourse to indigenous cultures in the insular Pacific, symbolic, political-legal, and psychological anthropology, Bakhtinian dialogism and ethnography, Papua New Guinea, Sepik River, masculinity, personhood and modernity, romance cross culturally	612-626-8657 lipse001@umn.edu
Zhigang Liu	Asian Languages and Literature	Chinese Language	612-626-9746 612-625-6534 liuxx326@umn.edu
Christine L. Marran	Asian Languages and Literature	Asian film, modern Japanese literature, Japanese popular culture from the 1870s to the present, early Meiji writing, especially newspapers and gesaku literature, Gender, sexuality, and identity in print and film culture, Ethics and the animal, Japanese and Asian film, Pond-building	612-625-0174 marran@umn.edu
Fumiko Matsumoto	Asian Languages and Literature	Japanese Language	612-624-5793 matsu021@umn.edu
Yasuko Matsumoto	Asian Languages and Literature	Japanese Language	612-624-5793 matsu072@umn.edu
Jason McGrath	Asian Languages and Literature	Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture, Chinese and international cinemas; realism in fiction, film, and theory, Modernism and postmodernism, Art and the nation, Globalization and popular culture, Marxism	612-624-2875 jmcgrath@umn.edu
Meredith McQuaid	Office of International Programs - Law School	China Exchange Program	612-625-3025 mcqua004@umn.edu
Christopher Mills Isett	History	Comparative history and social theory, economic history, late imperial and modern Chinese socio-economic and political history	612-624-1505 isett003@umn.edu
Hiromi Mizuno	History	Gender and sexuality, cultural studies of science and technology, modern Japan, nationalism and colonialism, intellectual and cultural history, human rights	612-626-7597 mizuno@umn.edu
Michael S. Molasky	Asian Languages and Literature	Minority literature, Jazz studies, Japanese fiction, Gender and sexuality, Cultural history, Modern Okinawan literature and criticism, Postwar Japanese fiction and cultural history, Literature under foreign occupation and colonial rule	612-624-3827 molasky@umn.edu
Yukiko Morita	Asian Languages and Literature	Japanese Language	612-624-5793 morit008@umn.edu
Richa Nagar	Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, Geography, Asian Languages & Literuature, Feminist Studies	Collaborative praxis, politics of development, transnational feminisms	612-625-2028 612-624-6006 nagar@umn.edu
Bic Ngo	Curriculum and Instruction	Social and cultural contexts of education, refugee/immigrant education, urban and multicultural education	612-625-7520 bcngo@umn.edu
Ruth Okediji	Law School	International intellectual property, international trade	612-625-6475 rokediji@umn.edu
Michael Paige	Educational Policy and Administration	Comparative and International Development Education, civic education in Hong Kong and China	612-626-7456 r-paig@umn.edu
Robert John Poor	Art History	Bronze Age archaeology and East Asian art	612-624-4396 poorx001@umn.edu
Ravi Prasad	Asian Languages and Literature	Hindi Language	612-624-1092 prasad@umn.edu
Gloria Goodwin Raheja	Anthropology, Institute for Global Studies (IGS)	Cultural production in India (caste, gender and colonialism), popular culture, race and class in the U.S.	612-625-8547 raheja@umn.edu
Ashok Rajput	Asian Languages and Literature	Urdu Language	ashokuw@umn.edu
Terry Roe	Applied Economics	Economic growth, development and trade, political economy, agricultural policy	612-625-6706 troe@umn.edu
Paul Rouzer	Asian Languages and Literature	Chinese literature, poetics and poetry of China and Japan, Buddhism, traditions of the supernatural in East Asia, medieval Chinese poetry	612-625-2564 prouzer@umn.edu
C. Ford Runge	Applied Economics	US-European agricultural trade and policy, NAFTA, GATT negotiations, natural resources policy, welfare economics	612-625-9208 frunge@umn.edu
Vernon W. Ruttan	Economics and Applied Economics	Agricultural development, Resource economics, science and technology policy, economic development	612-625-4701 vruttan@umn.edu
Mahmoud Sadrai	Institute for Linguistics, ESL, & Slavic Languages	Persian Language	612-626-6655 sadrai@umn.edu
Guriqbal (Bali) Sahota	Asian Languages and Literatures	Modern Indian Intellectual History, Romanticism and Orientalis, Religion after Imperialism, Theories of Modernit, Historical Materialism	612-626-5940 sahota@umn.edu
Arun Saldana	Geography	Cultural production in India (caste, gender and colonialism), popular culture, race and class in the U.S.	612-625-6080 saldanha@umn.edu
Martin Wright Sampson	Political Science	International Relations and foreign policy, Mideast politics, Palestine, U. S. foreign policy	612-624-2389 marsam@umn.edu
Simona Sawhney	Asian Languages and Literature	South Asian literature, Sanskrit literature, Post-Colonial literature	612-626-0591 sawhney@umn.edu
Renana S. Schneller	Classical and Near Eastern Studies	Hebrew language and literature, Modern and Classical Arabic language and literature, second language acquisition	612-625-5353 612-624-1395 schne068@umn.edu
Anna Schultz	Music	intersections between religion, politics, and music in South Asia	612-624-2393 schu1778@umn.edu
Eric Stewart Sheppard	Geography	Geography and economic development, Trade and uneven geographies of globalization, The spatial dynamics of capitalism, neoliberalism and its contestations, Livelihood struggles in the third world, geographic information, technologies and society, environmental justice in the Twin Cities, Urban policy and urban development	612-625-5840 shepp001@umn.edu
Ajay Skaria	History, Institute for Global Studies (IGS)	Colonialism, environmental history, Indian History, Satipati, South Asia	612-624-7565 skari002@umn.edu
Hooi Ling Soh	Linguistics	Syntax, Relationship between Syntax and Semantic, The Structure of Chinese Languages, The Structure of Malay	612-626-9687 sohxx001@umn.edu
Polly Allen Szatrowski	Linguistics	Japanese language and linguistics	612-624-3331 szatr001@umn.edu
Shaden Tageldin	Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature	19th- and 20th-century literatures in English, Arabic, French, Empire and postcolonial studies, Critical translation theory, Politics of language, literary form, genre, Aesthetics and “biologics” of race, nation, culture, Literatures of migration and Diaspora	612-625-8445 612-624-8099 tageldin@umn.edu
Elaine Tarone	Linguistics, ESL, Slavic (ILES)	Second-language acquisition research by language teachers, genre analysis in English for specific purposes, impact of basic alphabetic literacy on second-language oracy, language play by second-language learners, interlanguage variation and a sociolinguistic theory of second-language acquisition, applied linguistics	612-624-2023 etarone@umn.ed
Kenichi Tazawa	Asian Languages and Literature	Japanese	612-626-9481 tazaw001@umn.edu
Ayumi Uchida	Asian Languages and Literature	Japanese	612-624-5793 uchi0009@umn.edu
Ann Waltner	History	Traditional Chinese social history, law, historical documentation, ritual, religion, gender, analysis of historical documentation, rumor, gossip, world history, feminism	612-624-2800 waltn001@umn.edu
Ling Wang	Asian Languages and Literature	Chinese	612-624-2366 wangx333@umn.edu
Liping Wang	History	East Asian history, Imperial China, modern Chinese social and cultural history, Republican China, travel	612-624-4834 lipin003@umn.edu
Margaret Werry	Theatre Arts and Dance	Pedagogy of/as performance, anthropological approaches to performance as social dramatrugy, critical race theory, cultural politics and performance of ethnicity, nationalism, and trans-nationalism, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, 19th century Euro-American and British colonial popular theatre and entertainment culture, performance theory and historiographic method, cultural policy and governmentality - tourism, heritage	werry001@umn.edu
Phoua Yang	Asian Languages and Literature	Hmong	612-624-2304 pyang@umn.edu
Sang-Seok Yoon	Asian Languages and Literature	Korean	612-626-0378 612-625-6534 yoonx048@umn.edu
Zhen Zou	Asian Languages and Literature	Chinese	612-625-4826 zouxx009@umn.edu