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Visiting Faculty and Scholars
Anthropology
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Divinity School
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Economics
History
History of Art
Political Science
Religious Studies
Sociology
East Asia Library–Sterling Memorial Library

Richard U. Light Fellowship Program
Yale University Art Gallery
Yale-China Association

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VISITNG FACULTY AND SCHOLARS
Heekyoung Cho Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Comparative Literature (July 2009-June 2010)
Research/Specialty: Modern Korean Literature and Culture; Translation and Modern Literature in East Asia
Nobuhiro Hiwatari Visiting Fellow with The Todai-Yale Initiative (September 2009 - August 2010) from the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo
Research/Specialty: Institutional Determinants of Robust Economic Relations and Uneven Institution Building; The Effects of U.S. and Japanese Policies in the East Asian Pacific Region
Eiichi Ishigami Visiting Faculty in East Asian Languages and Literatures (September 2009-May 2010) from the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
Research/Specialty: Japanese Ancient History; Shosoin Documents; Maps of Japanese Estates of the Ancient Eras
Justin Jesty Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Literatures (July 2009-June 30, 2010)
Research/Specialty: Cultural History of Postwar Japan; Documentary, History, and Social Movements in Postwar Japan
Yi Jian Yale World Fellow and East Asian Studies Affiliate (September-December 2009); Independent Filmmaker; Founder, Independent Filmmakers of China; Director, Participatory Documentary Center
Young-Aie Kim Visiting Korean Library Fellow at the Yale University East Asia Library (August 2009 - August 2010) from Seoul National University Library (support for this position made possible through Yale CEAS National Resource Center Title VI Grant from the United States Department of Education)
Drake Langford Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Literatures (September 2009-May 2010)
Research/Specialty: The Japanese Classics and Literary Japanese
Qing-rui Liao Chinese Language Lector from IUP (September 2009-May 2010) teaching in Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Toby Lincoln Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in History (July 2009-June 30, 2010)
Research/Specialty: Modern Chinese History; Urbanization in China, 1850-2010
Naoto Nakajima Visiting Fellow with The Todai-Yale Initiative (October 2009-March 2010) from Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
Research/Specialty: Japanese Urban History, Planning History and Theory; Urban Landscape Analysis and Urban Conservation Planning; Citizen Initiatives in Urban Rehabilitation; History of Town Developments and Civic Associations in New Haven and Surrounding East Coast Cities in Modern Era (including the Perspectives of Propagation and Comparison with Japanese Cities)
Shoichi Ota Visiting Fellow with The Todai-Yale Initiative (September 2009 - August 2010) from the Institute of Industrial Science, Fujimori Lab (Architectural and Urban History), University of Tokyo
Research/Specialty: American Effects on Japanese Urban Space in the Modern Era
Yasunari Takada Visiting Fellow with The Todai-Yale Initiative (September 2009 - August 2010) from the Division of Transcultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo at Komaba
Research/Specialty: Comparative Study of Modernity in Japan, Europe and America
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ANTHROPOLOGY
William Honeychurch Asian Archaeology; Development of Complex Polities; Nomadic States and Empires; Monumental Landscapes; Mongolia
William Kelly Social and Historical of Japan; Agrarian Societies in Japan; History and Present Patterns of Professional Baseball in Japan; Sports and Body Culture; Fandoms and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan
Karen Nakamura Sociocultural Anthropology of Japan; Disability Studies; Sign Language; Minority Social Movements and Identity Politics; Civil Society; Gender and Sexuality; Visual Culture; Contemporary Japan
Helen Siu Chinese Social Anthropology; Historical and Ethnographic Fieldwork in South China and Hong Kong; Socialist and Post-Socialist Transformations; Revival of Market Towns, Community Festivals, and Rituals; Migration and Vernacular Modernity
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Alexander Beecroft Classical Chinese, Ancient Greek and Latin Literatures
Haun Saussy Chinese Literature; Comparative Literature; Translation; Philosophy of Language; Poetics; Aesthetics/Literatures in French, Chinese, German, Italian, Latin, Greek
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DIVINITY SCHOOL
Chloe Starr Asian Theology; Chinese Literature and Theology; Chinese Christian Scriptures
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EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Hsiu-hsien Chan Chinese Language
Kang-i Sun Chang Classical Chinese Literature; Women Writers of Traditional China; Comparative Studies of Poetry; Literary Criticism; Gender Studies; Hermeneutics; Cultural Theory/Aesthetics
Min Chen Chinese Language
Seungja Choi Korean Language; Translation; Japanese/Korean Linguistics; Semantics/Pragmatics
Aaron Gerow Film Studies; Japanese Modern Literature; Japanese Popular Culture; Japanese Television and Televisual Spectatorship; Japanese Film History and Recent Japanese Cinema
Christopher Hill Modern Japanese Literature; Intellectual and Cultural History
Koichi Hiroe Japanese Language Teaching, Applied Linguistics: Grammar, Teaching, Methodology, Listening and Video
Edward Kamens Pre-modern Japanese Literature
Zhengguo Kang Chinese Language; Classical Chinese Literature; Chinese Cultural Criticism
Paize Keulemans

Late-Imperial Chinese Vernacular Fiction and Culture; Martial-Arts Fiction and Film; Medium of Sound and Its Representation in Written Text; Literary and Cinematic Representation of Violence; Early-Modern and Modern World Literature: 17th Century Dutch-Chinese-Japanese Relations

Angela Lee-Smith Korean Language; Lexical Semantics; Korean Language Education as a Foreign Language
Rongzhen Li Chinese Language
Ninghui Liang Chinese Language
Fan Liu Chinese Language
Tina Lu Late Imperial Chinese Literature; Chinese Fiction and Drama, 1550-1750
Yukie Mammoto Japanese Language
Yoshiko Maruyama Japanese Language; Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics in Applied Linguistics
Ling Mu Chinese Language; Translation
Michiaki Murata Japanese Language; Japanese History
Hiroyo Nishimura Japanese Language
Haun Saussy Chinese Literature; Comparative Literature; Translation; Philosophy of Language; Poetics; Aesthetics/Literatures in French, Chinese, German, Italian, Latin, Greek
Yu-lin Wang Saussy Chinese Language; Classical Chinese; Pedagogy
Masahiko Seto Japanese Language
Jianhua Shen Chinese Language
Mari Stever Japanese Language

Hugh Stimson
(Emeritus)

Chinese Language; Classical Chinese; Tang Dynasty and Classical Chinese Poetry; Chinese Linguistics; Chinese Phonology
Wei Su Chinese Language; Contemporary Chinese Literature and Culture
John Treat Modern Japanese Fiction and Criticism; Literary History; Popular Culture; Cultural Studies; Korean-Japanese Cultural Relations in the Modern Period
Jing Tsu

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 19th Century to Present; Sinophone Studies; Intellectual History; Diaspora; Popular Culture; History of Science

Haiwen Wang Chinese Language
Peisong Xu  Chinese Language
William Zhou  Chinese Language
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ECONOMICS
Koichi Hamada Japanese Economics; International Economics; Strategic Analysis of International Political Economy
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HISTORY
Beatrice Bartlett
(Emerita)
Qing Communications Systems, History of the Qing Archives, and Reading Chinese Historical Documents; Twentieth-Century China; Chinese History since 1550; Chinese Historical Writing Since Ancient Times; History of China's Frontiers; Foreign Explorers, Missionaries, Journalists, Diplomats, Businessmen in China in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Chinese Overseas in the U.S. and Elsewhere; Chinese Law, 1400-1937
Annping Chin Chinese History; Early Sources in Chinese Intellectual and Religious Traditions
Fabian Drixler 19th Century Japan; Population History and Demographic Discourses during the Edo and Meiji Periods in Japan
Valerie Hansen China to 1600; Chinese Religious and Legal History; Social History of the Silk Road
Peter C. Perdue Chinese History; Qing Dynasty; Qing Conquest of Central Asia; Grain Markets in China; Agricultural Development; Environmental History; Modern Chinese and Japanese Social and Economic History; History of Frontiers; World History

Jonathan Spence
(Emeritus) 

China, 17th Century to the Present; Sino-Western Relations; Chinese Legal History; Western Perceptions of China
William Summers Therapeutic Radiology; History of Science; Early Genetics in China; Interactions of Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Conrad Totman
(Emeritus)
Japanese History; Tokugawa Era; Early Modern Japan; Forestry and Environmental Studies in Japan
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HISTORY OF ART
Richard Barnhart
(Emeritus)
Chinese Art History; Chinese Landscape Painting; Chinese Calligraphy; Chinese Painting of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties; Contemporary Chinese Painting
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng Chinese Art History; Chinese Art and Archaeology; Chinese Art and Visual Culture; History and Memory in Chinese Art; Visual Replication and Political Persuasion; Pictorial Representation and Historical Writing; Interchangeability of the Self and the Other
Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan Japanese Art History; Buddhist Art and Iconography; Political and Social Perspectives in Analysis of Imagery and Ritual; Japanese Landscape Painting; Women's Issues in Japanese Art
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Seok-ju Cho Politics in South and North Korea; Political Bargaining; Electoral Competition Under Alternative Constitutional or Institutional Arrangements
Pierre-Francois Landry Chinese Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Local Government; Quantitative Comparative Political Analysis
Frances Rosenbluth  Japanese Politics; Japanese Political Economy; Comparative Political Economy; War and Constitutions; Political Economy of Gender
Jun Saito Japanese Politics; International Relations in East Asia; Comparative Political Institutions; Institutional Determinants of Representation and Redistribution
Jessica Weiss Chinese Politics; Chinese Foreign Policy; State-Society Relations in Post-Mao China; International Relations; Nationalism; Social Protest; and Anti-Americanism in World Politics
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RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Koichi Shinohara Buddhism in East Asia; Representations of Buddhist Monastic Practices in Medieval China
Stanley Weinstein
(Emeritus) 
Japanese and Chinese Buddhism; Japanese Religion
Andrew Quintman Tibetan Buddhism; Buddhist Traditions of Mind and Meditation; Visual Worlds of Himalayan Buddhism
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SOCIOLOGY
Deborah Davis Chinese Sociology; Comparative Social Change; Occupational and Class Mobility in Modern China; Modern Chinese Social Welfare; Chinese Families; Chinese Elderly; Chinese Cities; Urban Chinese Consumer Culture
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EAST ASIA LIBRARY–STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Ellen Hammond Curator, East Asia Library - Sterling Memorial Library
Haruko Nakamura Librarian for the Japanese Collection, East Asia Library - Sterling Memorial Library
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RICHARD U. LIGHT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
Kelly C. McLaughlin
Director, Richard U. Light Fellowship Program
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YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
David Sensabaugh Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art, Yale Art Gallery
Sadako Ohki The Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art, Yale Art Gallery
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YALE-CHINA ASSOCIATION
Nancy Yao Maasbach Executive Director, Yale-China Association

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