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Asian Studies

Faculty and Staff

Asian Studies Faculty

Thomas D. Conlan 
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
Associate 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

Mitsuko Numata
Lecturer in Japanese

Vyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger
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 and Film Studies

Peggy Wang

Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Studies

Yuxia Xiu
Lecturer in Chinese Language

Leah Zuo
Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies

Contributing Faculty

David Collings
Professor of English, Director of Gay and Lesbian Studies Program

Sara A. Dickey
Professor of Anthropology

Dhiraj Murthy 
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Nancy Riley (on leave of absence for the spring semester of the 2012-13 academic year)
Professor of Sociology
 
Wendy Thompson-Taiwo
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies.

Vineet Shende (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)
Associate Professor of Music

Yao Tang (on leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year)
Assistant Professor of Economics