Our Faculty and Staff

Christopher Heurlin, Program Director

Front row, left to right: Vyjayanthi Selinger, Rachel L. Sturman (History), Shu-chin Tsui (Cinema Studies), Claire Robison (Religion), Christine Marrewa Karwoski, Suzanne Astolfi, Songren Cui

Back row, left to right: Aki Nakai (Government), Hiroo Aridome, John Kim, Ya (Leah) Zuo (History), Xiaoke Jia, Yinqiu Ma

Not pictured: Sakura Christmas (History), Christopher Heurlin (Government), Belinda Kong (English), Henry C.W. Laurence (Government), Peggy Wang (Art History)

Contributing Faculty: Connie Y. Chiang, Shruti Devgan, Sara A. Dickey, Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Tara Mock, Nancy E. Riley, Joshua Urich

Faculty

Hiroo Aridome

Senior Lecturer in Japanese Language

Sakura Christmas

Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies

Christopher Heurlin

Associate Professor Government and Asian Studies, Director of Asian Studies Program

Xiaoke Jia

Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language

John H. Kim

Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

Belinda Kong

John F. and Dorothy H. Magee Associate Professor of Asian Studies and English

Henry C.W. Laurence

Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies

Claire Robison

Assistant Professor of Religion and Asian Studies

Vyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger

Stanley F. Druckenmiller Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Rachel Sturman

Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies

Shu-chin Tsui

Bowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies

Peggy Wang

Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Studies - on leave for the 2021-22 academic year

Jing Xie

Lecturer in Chinese Language

Staff

Sree Padma Holt

Research Associate in Asian Studies

Contributing Faculty

Connie V. Chiang, Professor of History & Environmental Studies
Shruti Devgan, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Sara A. Dickey, Professor of Anthropology
Nancy E. Riley, A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences
Joshua Urich, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion

Faculty Emeriti

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

Retired Faculty

Songren Cui
Associate Professor of Asian Studies