School of Arts and Sciences

Website: http://asianlanguages.rutgers.edu

Program Director: Richard VanNess Simmons, 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

Shin-yi Chao, Philosophy and Religion; Ph.D., British Columbia (Canada)

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

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

Jiro Harasaki, M.A., Columbia

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

Tao Jiang, Religion; Ph.D., Temple

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

Hiroshi Obayashi, Religion; Ph.D., Pennsylvania

Donald Roden, History; Ph.D., Wisconsin

Satoru Saito, Asian Languages and Cultures; Ph.D., Columbia

Shizuka Sakagami, Asian Languages and Cultures; Ph.D., Columbia

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

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

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

Weijie Song, Asian Languages and Cultures, Ph.D, Peking (China); Ph.D., Columbia

Elizabeth VanderVen, History, Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)

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

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

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

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

Odoric Wou, History; Ph.D., Columbia

Yuru Wu, Asian Languages and Cultures; Ph.D., Harvard

Students interested in Asian studies should be aware that courses also are offered in Chinese (165), Japanese (565), and Korean (574). Courses offered in Hindi may be found in the African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures (013) section. An interdisciplinary major is available in East Asian Languages and Area Studies (214).