Faculty and Staff

Bowdoin Asian Studies Faculty Fall 2007
Thomas D. Conlan
Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
Premodern Japan

Songren Cui On leave for the 2009-10 academic year
Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Sara A. Dickey On leave for the spring 2010 semester
Professor of Anthropology

John C. Holt
William R. Kenan Professor of the Humanities and Religion

Asuka Hosaka
Lecturer in Japanese Language
Japanese Language

Xiaoke Jia
Lecturer in Chinese

Belinda Kong
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and English

Henry Laurence
Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies
Japanese and comparative political economy. Media and politics

De-nin Deanna Lee
Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Studies
Asian Art

Yan Li
Lecturer in Chinese Language

Mitsuko Numata
Lecturer in Japanese Language

Sree Padma
Lecturer in Asian Studies and Administrative Director of ISLE Program

Vyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger On leave for the 2009-10 academic year
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Premodern and Modern Japanese literature, Japanese language, Theoretical approaches to history as narrative

Rachel Sturman
Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies
South Asia

Shu-chin Tsui
Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Director of Asian Studies Program

Lawrence L. Zhang
Instructor in History and Asian Studies