Faculty and Staff

Bowdoin Asian Studies Faculty Fall 2007
Thomas D. Conlan   (on leave for the 2011-12 academic year)
Professor of History and Asian Studies
Premodern Japan

Songren Cui
Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Christopher Heurlin
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies & Government

John C. Holt 
William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities in Religion and Asian Studies

Sree Padma Holt
Lecturer in Asian Studies and Executive Director of the ISLE Program

Belinda Kong
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and English

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

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

Naho Maruta
Lecturer in Japanese Language

Mitsuko Numata
Lecturer in Japanese

Vyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger  (on leave for the spring 2012 semester)
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Premodern and Modern Japanese literature, Japanese language, Theoretical approaches to history as narrative

Rachel Sturman
Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
South Asia

Shu-chin Tsui  

Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Yuxia Xiu
Lecturer in Chinese Language

Contributing Faculty

David Collings
Professor of English
Sara A. Dickey
Professor of Anthropology

Dhiraj Murthy  (on leave for the 2011-12 academic year)
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Nancy Riley
Professor of Sociology
 
Maria Elena Rivera-Beckstrom
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology

Vineet Shende
Associate Professor of Music

Yao Tang
Assistant Professor of Economics