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Anthropology
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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
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Yale-China Association

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VISITING FACULTY AND SCHOLARS
William Fleming Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies (July 2011 - June 2012)
Research/Specialty: Literature and Cultural History of Early Modern Japan; Representation of Disease and the Body in Premodern Japanese Literature; Reception of Chinese Fiction in the Late Edo Period
Fumiko Jōo

Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies (September 2011 - August 2012)
Research/Specialty: Chinese and East Asian Comparative Literature; Ming-Qing Fiction and Its Expansion in Early Modern Japan; Fantastic Stories and Gender

Jin Woong Kang

Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies (July 2011 - June 2012)
Research/Specialty:
Sociology of North Korea; North Korean State Formation and the Political Sociology of Divided Korea; North Korean Refugees’ Lives in South Korea and the Experiences of Korean Immigrants in the United States with Respect to Domestic Violence and Encounters with the American Criminal System

Akinobu Kuroda

Visiting Faculty with The Todai-Yale Initiative (AY 2011-2012) from the Department of History, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
Research/Specialty:
East Asian Economic History

Yuhang Li

Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies (July 2011 - June 2012)
Research/Specialty: Art History of Late Imperial China; Gender and Material Practice in Relation to Buddhism in Ming and Qing China; Gender and Chinese Art History

Kentaro Matsubara

Visiting Faculty with The Todai-Yale Initiative (AY 2011-2012) specializing in Legal History from the University of Tokyo
Research/Specialty:
Socio-Legal History and Anthropology

Nobutaka Otobe

Postgraduate Fellow in Political Science (AY 2011-2012)
Research/Specialty: Political Theory; International Relations
Fabio Scano Yale World Fellow and East Asian Studies Affiliate (AY 2011-2012) from the World Health Organization in Beijing. A medical doctor and public health specialist, Scano serves as Team Leader and directs the World Health Organization's tuberculosis control program in China, which has the largest single country burden of multidrug-resistant TB.

Yoshie Yanagihara

Visiting Faculty with The Todai-Yale Initiative (AY 2011-2012) from the Division of International Affairs, University of Tokyo
Research/Specialty: Cultural Comparison of the Attitudes on Reproductive Technology Between Japan and the United States

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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
(on leave AY 11-12)
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
Anne Underhill East Asian and Chinese Archaeology; Regional Settlement and Economic Organization during Late Prehistoric and Early Bronze Age Periods in Rizhao Area of Southeastern Shandong; Craft Production; Ceramics; Exchange Systems; Diet; Mortuary Ritual; Ethnic Minority Cultures of China; and Museum Anthropology
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DIVINITY SCHOOL
Chloe Starr
(on leave AY 11-12)
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
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
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
(on leave Fall 2011)
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
Yu-lin Wang Saussy Chinese Language; Classical Chinese; Pedagogy
Masahiko Seto Japanese Language
Jianhua Shen Chinese Language
Mari Stever Japanese Language
Wei Su Chinese Language; Contemporary Chinese Literature and Culture
John Treat
(on leave Spring 2012)
Modern Japanese Fiction and Criticism; Literary History; Popular Culture; Cultural Studies; Korean-Japanese Cultural Relations in the Modern Period
Jing Tsu
(on leave AY 11-12)

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
Eric Weese Japanese Economics; Political Economy; Economic Development; Economic Growth
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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
Daniel Botsman Japanese History; Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan; Social History of Japan in the Tokugawa (1600-1867) and Meiji (1868-1912) Periods
Annping Chin Chinese History; Early Sources in Chinese Intellectual and Religious Traditions
Fabian Drixler
(on leave AY 11-12)
19th Century Japan; Population History and Demographic Discourses during the Edo and Meiji Periods in Japan
Valerie Hansen
(teaching at Yale-Peking University Program AY 11-12)
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
(on leave Spring 2012)
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
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
Frances Rosenbluth  Japanese Politics; Japanese Political Economy; Comparative Political Economy; War and Constitutions; Political Economy of Gender
Jun Saito
(on leave AY 11-12)
Japanese Politics; International Relations in East Asia; Comparative Political Institutions; Institutional Determinants of Representation and Redistribution
Jessica Weiss
(on leave AY 11-12)
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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