H. Mack Horton Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures performativity, East Asian languages and cultures, classical poetry, diary literature, cultural context, anthology of vernacular poetry, Man'yôshû, poetry and poetics
Andrew F. Jones Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian languages and cultures, Chinese popular music, sonic culture, media technology, modern Chinese fiction, children's literature, literary translation
Robert Sharf Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion
Daniel O'Neill Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian literatures and cinema, gender and sexuality studies, environmental humanities and media theory
Peter Jenks Dept of Linguistics syntax, semantics, morphology, linguistic theory, Thai, Southeast Asian languages, African languages
Vasugi Kailasam Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies Tamil studies, film and digital culture, South Asia, South and Southeast Asian studies, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, South Asian Literature and Culture
Wen-hsin Yeh Dept of History history, East Asian studies, Qing and Modern China, Maritime Asia, Taiwan, Pacific Rim societies
Minoo Moallem Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Transnational and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, cultural studies, Commodity Cultures, Visual and Material Cultures of Religion, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies
Andrew Garrett Dept of Linguistics linguistics, language change, Indo-European languages, historical linguistics, Indigenous California languages, Indigenous language revitalization
Amy Rose Deal Dept of Linguistics meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language
Line Mikkelsen Dept of Linguistics morphology, syntax, semantics, California languages, Germanic languages, Inuit languages
Michael Nylan Dept of History gender, history, East Asian studies, early China, the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD, with an emphasis on the sociopolitical context, aesthetic theories and material culture, belief
Xin Liu Dept of Anthropology history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia
Sylvia Tiwon Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies Indonesia, South and Southeast Asian studies, literature and gender, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, orality and literacy
Anneka Lenssen Dept of History of Art global modern art, the Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art
Julian Chun-Chung Chow School of Social Welfare East Asian studies, social welfare, community practice and service delivery in urban poverty, ethnic, immigrant neighborhoods, community analysis and needs assessment, program planning and development, cultural competency services
Miryam Sas Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Dept of Film and Media 20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies
Lev Michael Dept of Linguistics linguistic typology, Amazonian languages, anthropological linguistics, language contact and areal typology, language documentation and description
Isaac L. Bleaman Dept of Linguistics sociolinguistics, language contact, language change, language maintenance, computational linguistics, syntax, phonetics, Yiddish, Jewish languages
Iggy Cortez Dept of Film and Media world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory
Junko Habu Dept of Anthropology Japan, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, sustainability, East Asia, Jomon hunter-gatherers