Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Web Site: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~easian/asianstudies/index.html

Program Director: Ching-I Tu, Asian Languages and Cultures; Ph.D., Washington

Program Faculty:

Michael Adas, History; Ph.D., Wisconsin

Laura Ahearn, Anthropology; Ph.D., Michigan

Edwin Bryant, Religion; Ph.D., Columbia

Indrani Chatterjee, History; Ph.D., London

Kuang-Yu Chen, Chemistry; Ph.D., Yale

Young-mee Yu Cho, Asian Languages and Cultures; Ph.D., Stanford

Ann Choi, Asian Languages and Cultures; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)

Veneeta Dayal, Linguistics; Ph.D., Cornell

Prache Despande, History; Ph.D., Tufts

Manoranjan Dutta, Economics; Ph.D., Pennsylvania

Ira Gang, Economics; Ph.D., Cornell

Peter B. Golden, History; Ph.D., Columbia

Sumit Guha, History; Ph.D., Cambridge

Angela Howard, Art History; Ph.D., New York

Cheng-Few Lee, Finance; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo)

Xun Liu, History; Ph.D., Southern California

Matt K. Matsuda, History; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)

Senko Maynard, Asian Languages and Cultures; Ph.D., Northwestern

Michael Moffatt, Anthropology; Ph.D., Chicago

Hiroshi Obayashi, Religion; Ph.D., Pennsylvania

Donald Roden, History; Ph.D., Wisconsin

Paul Schalow, Asian Languages and Cultures; Ph.D., Harvard

Louisa Schein, Anthropology; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)

Robert Sewell, Library; Ph.D., Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)

Richard VanNess Simmons, Asian Languages and Cultures; Ph.D., Washington

Leslie Small, Agricultural Economics and Marketing; Ph.D., Cornell

Dietrich Tschanz, Asian Languages and Cultures; Ph.D., Princeton

Janet Walker, Comparative Literature; Ph.D., Harvard

Steven Walker, Comparative Literature; Ph.D., Harvard

Ban Wang, Asian Languages and Cultures; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)

Richard Wilson, Political Science; Ph.D., Princeton

Odoric Wou, History; Ph.D., Columbia

Students interested in Asian studies should be aware that courses also are offered in Chinese (165), Hindi (505), Japanese (565), and Korean (574). An interdisciplinary major is available in East Asian languages and area studies (214).