Director

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Chengjuan Sun

Associate Professor of Chinese
Areas of Expertise
Chinese poetry, women's writing, Qing-dynasty literature
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 101
Phone Number
(740) 427-5282

Faculty

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Jianhua Bai

Robert A. Oden Jr. Professor of Chinese
Areas of Expertise
Foreign language pedagogy, linguistics, computer-assisted language instruction.
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 112
Phone Number
(740) 427-5530

Sarah Blick

Professor of Art History
Areas of Expertise
Medieval art history, Asian art history.
Campus
Address
Gund Gallery 116
Phone Number
(740) 427-4275347
 

Joy Brennan

Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Areas of Expertise
Buddhist philosophy and psychology, Yogacara, Zen Buddhism
Campus
Address
O'Connor House 204
Phone Number
(740) 427-5290

Hilary Buxton

Assistant Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
Modern imperial Britain, colonial and global history, postcolonial science studies, race, gender and disability studies
Campus
Address
Seitz House 05
Phone Number
(740) 427-5355

Kathleen Fernando

Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Post-colonial literature(s) and theory, South Asian literature, Canadian diasporic writing.
Campus
Address
Waite House 204
Phone Number
(740) 427-5754

Zachary Hershey

Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
Frontier history, East Asian environmental history, Serbi-Mongolic languages and linguistics
Campus
Address
Seitz House 03
Phone Number
(740) 427-5206
 

Brad Hostetler

Assistant Professor of Art History
Areas of Expertise
Byzantine art, Greek epigraphy, epigrams, and ekphrasis
Campus
Address
Gund Gallery 113
Phone Number
(740) 427-5743

Manami Ishimura

Assistant Professor of Studio Art
Areas of Expertise
Sculpture, Installation, Contemporary Art Practice
Campus
Address
Horvitz Hall 214
Phone Number
(740) 427-5889

Nurten Kilic-Schubel

Associate Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
Islamic history, history of Central Eurasia, Ottoman history, women and gender in Islamic history.
Campus
Address
Acland House 04
Phone Number
(740) 427-5320

Maria Mendonca

Associate Professor of Music
Campus
Address
Storer Hall 028
Phone Number
(740) 427-5723

Michelle Mood

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies
Areas of Expertise
Chinese politics, Chinese rural development, political economy of development, women in politics, globalization.
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 219
Phone Number
(740) 427-5429

Jud Murray

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Areas of Expertise
Chinese religions, early Chinese thought, comparative thought and religions
Campus
Address
O'Connor House 205
Phone Number
(740) 427-5275

Pashmina Murthy

Associate Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Postcolonial studies, critical theory, transnational studies.
Campus
Address
Waite House 108
Phone Number
(740) 427-5213

Sam Pack

Professor of Anthropology
Areas of Expertise
Cultural identity formation and contestation, global and local dynamics of mass media, media ethnography, reception studies, indigenous modes of (self-re)presentation, subject-generated imagery, life history, Native North America, Southeast and East Asia.
Campus
Address
Palme House 106
Phone Number
(740) 427-5888

Rima Sadek

Assistant Professor of Arabic
Areas of Expertise
Comparative literature, Arabic studies and critical theory
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 022
Phone Number
(740) 427-5931

Wael Salam

Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 022
Phone Number
(740) 427-5468

Vernon Schubel

Professor of Religious Studies
Campus
Address
Ascension Hall 001
Phone Number
(740) 427-5801
 

Wendy Singer

Associate Provost
Roy T. Wortman Distinguished Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
History of India and South Asia, Indian politics, globalization and migration, transnational communities.
Campus
Address
Bailey House 203
Phone Number
(740) 427-5324

Yang Xiao

Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Expertise
Ethics, Political Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Eco-Philosophy (Environmental Philosophy and Climate Change)
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 211
Phone Number
(740) 427-5287

Kai Xie

Associate Professor of Japanese
Areas of Expertise
Premodern Japanese literature, Sino-Japanese comparisons and interactions, Sino-Japanese (kanbun) literature.
Campus
Address
Ascension 010
Phone Number
(740) 427-5229
 

Patricia Yu

Assistant Professor of Art History
Areas of Expertise
Arts of Asia, late imperial to contemporary China, cultural heritage
Campus
Address
Gund Gallery 115
Phone Number
(740) 427-5034

Hao Zhou

Assistant Professor of Film
Campus
Address
Hill Theater 202
Phone Number
(740) 427-5561

Yan Zhou

Visual Resources Curator, Art History
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History
Areas of Expertise
Modern and contemporary art, Chinese art history
Campus
Address
Gund Gallery 111a
Phone Number
(740) 427-5193
 

Emeriti

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Joseph Adler

Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies and Religious Studies
Areas of Expertise
Chinese religions, Neo-Confucianism
Campus

Ruth Dunnell

Professor Emerita of History
Areas of Expertise
Chinese and inner-Asian history, comparative history of north Asia 11th-14th centuries, Mongol empire.