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Faculty

Anthropology

Sharon Bays
Keywords: Southeast Asia, Women's Studies

P. Jeffrey Brantingham
Keywords: China

Daniel Fessler
Keywords: Asia, Biological anthropology, Indonesia, Southeast Asia

Akhil Gupta
Keywords: South Asia

Douglas Hollan
Keywords: Asia, Cultural anthropology, Health, Indonesia, Southeast Asia

Nancy Levine
Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, China, Tibet

Sherry B. Ortner
Keywords: Buddhist Studies, China, Cultural anthropology, Tibet

Kyeyoung Park
Keywords: Korea

Monica Smith
Keywords: Archaeology, Asia, India

Mariko Tamanoi
Keywords: Asia, Japan

Yunxiang Yan
Keywords: China, Cultural anthropology

Archaeology

Monica Smith
Keywords: Archaeology, Asia, India

Lothar von Falkenhausen
Keywords: Archaeology, Asia, China

Architecture and Urban Design

Hitoshi Abe
Keywords: Asia, Japan

Art History Department

Robert Brown
Keywords: Art History, Asia, Buddhist Studies, South Asia, Southeast Asia

Burglind Jungmann
Keywords: Art, Asia, Korea

Hui-shu Lee
Keywords: Art, Asia, China

Saloni Mathur
Keywords: Art History, Asia, South Asia

Donald McCallum
Keywords: Art, Art History, Asia, Buddhist Studies, East Asia, Japan, Japanese Studies

Lothar von Falkenhausen
Keywords: Archaeology, Asia, China

Asian American Studies

Victor Bascara
Keywords: Asia, Cultural Studies, Gender, Literature, Philippines, Southeast Asia

Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns
Keywords: Asia, Cultural Studies, Philippines, Southeast Asia

Esha De
Keywords: Asia, India, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Women's Studies

Purnima Mankekar
Keywords: India

Shu-mei Shih
Keywords: Asia, China

Asian Languages and Cultures

Noriko Akatsuka
Keywords: Asia, East Asia, Japan, Japanese Studies, Linguistics

Alma Andersson
Keywords: Art, Asia, Film, Language, Language Proficiency, Philippines, Southeast Asia

Supa Angkurawaranon
Keywords: Art, Asia, Language, Southeast Asia, Thailand

William Bodiford
Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, Japan

Michael Bourdaghs
Keywords: Asia, Japan

Quyen Di Chuc Bui
Keywords: Art, Asia, Film, Language, Language Proficiency, Literature, Politics, Southeast Asia, Vietnam

Robert Buswell
Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, Korea, Religion

Jack Chen
Keywords: China, Chinese Studies

Robert Chi
Keywords: China, Literature, Politics

Jane Choi
Keywords: Art, Korea, Language

Anne Soon Choi
Keywords: Islamic Studies, Korea, Korean Studies

Hung-hsiang Chou
Keywords: Art, China, Language

Nenita Domingo
Keywords: Art, Asia, Language, Philippines, Southeast Asia

John Duncan
Keywords: Asia, East Asia, History, Korea, Korean Studies

Torquil Duthie
Keywords: Asia, Japan, Japanese Literature

George Dutton
Keywords: Asia, Cultural Studies, History, Southeast Asia, Vietnam

Asako Hayashi
Keywords: Asia, Japan

Theodore Huters
Keywords: Art, China, Language, Literature, Politics

Jae Eun Im
Keywords: Art, Korea, Language

Shoichi Iwasaki
Keywords: Art, Asia, Japan, Language, Linguistics, Southeast Asia, Thailand

Stephanie Jamison
Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, Cultural Studies, India, South Asia

Mary Kim
Keywords: Art, Korea, Language

Nayoung Aimee Kwon
Keywords: Korea, Literature, Politics

Namhee Lee
Keywords: Asia, Korea

Peter Lee
Keywords: Korea, Korean Studies, Literature

Seiji Lippit
Keywords: Japan, Japanese Literature

Gyanam Mahajan
Keywords: Cultural Studies, India

Michael F. Marra
Keywords: Asia, Japan, Japanese Literature

Thu Ba Hoai Nguyen
Keywords: Art, Asia, Language, Linguistics, Southeast Asia, Vietnam

Thu-huong Nguyen-vo
Keywords: Asia, Economic History, Film, Globalization, Literature, Politics, Southeast Asia, Vietnam

Sung-Deuk Oak
Keywords: History, Korea

Thomas Rimer
Keywords: Art, Cultural Studies, East Asia, Japan, Japanese Literature, Japanese Studies, Literature, Politics

David Schaberg
Keywords: Art, China, History, Language, Literature, Politics

Gregory Schopen
Keywords: Buddhist Studies, India

Shu-mei Shih
Keywords: Asia, China

Jonathan Silk
Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, Cultural Studies, East Asia, India, South Asia, Tibet

Sung-Ock Sohn
Keywords: Korea, Korean Studies, Language, Linguistics

Richard Strassberg
Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, China, Chinese Studies, Literature, Politics

Nobuko Sugamoto
Keywords: Asia, Japan

Timothy Tangherlini
Keywords: Asia, East Asia, Korea

Hongyin Tao
Keywords: Art, China, Language

Juliana Wijaya
Keywords: Art, Asia, Indonesia, Language, Southeast Asia

Jaeeun Yoon
Keywords: Art, Korea, Language

Center for East-West Medicine

Ka Kit Hui
Keywords: China

Communication Studies

Kyu Sup Hahn
Keywords: Korea, Politics

Tom Plate
Keywords: Asia, Pacific Rim

Comparative Literature

Aamir Mufti
Keywords: Literature, Politics, South Asia

Shu-mei Shih
Keywords: Asia, China

Earth & Space Sciences

An Yin
Keywords: China

Economics

Deepak K. Lal
Keywords: Africa, Economic Theory, Economics, Globalization, India, Indian Ocean diaspora, Politics

Duncan Thomas
Keywords: Africa, Economic Theory, Economics, Globalization, Health, Health Economics, Indonesia, Labor, Southeast Asia

English

James. E. Goodwin
Keywords: Asia, Cultural Studies, History, Southeast Asia, Vietnam

Ethnomusicology

Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Keywords: Music, South Asia

Tagumpay De Leon
Keywords: Asia, Music, Philippines, Southeast Asia

Abhiman Kaushal
Keywords: Music, South Asia

Dong Suk Kim
Keywords: Korea, Music

Helen Rees
Keywords: Asia, China, Music, Southeast Asia

I Nyoman Wenten
Keywords: Asia, Indonesia, Music, Southeast Asia

Fowler Museum at UCLA

Roy Hamilton
Keywords: Asia, Cultural anthropology

Geography

Lieba Faier
Keywords: Asia, Japan, Philippines, Southeast Asia

C. Cindy Fan
Keywords: Asia, China

Lisa Kim Davis
Keywords: Geography, Korea

Yongkang Xue
Keywords: Asia, China, Geography

Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

John N. Hawkins
Keywords: Asia, China, Education

History

Kathryn Bernhardt
Keywords: China

Andrea Goldman
Keywords: China

Vinay Lal
Keywords: History, India

William Marotti
Keywords: East Asia, History, Japan, Japanese Studies

Fred G. Notehelfer
Keywords: Art, Asia, East Asia, History, Japan, Japanese Studies

Herman Ooms
Keywords: Asia, East Asia, History, Japan, Japanese Studies

Geoffrey Robinson
Keywords: Asia, Development, Genocide, History, Human Rights, Indonesia, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), Political Economy, Political Violence, Politics, Southeast Asia

Michael Salman
Keywords: Asia, History, Philippines, Southeast Asia

Damodar Sardesai
Keywords: History, Southeast Asia, Vietnam

Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Keywords: Asia, History, India, South Asia

Sharon Traweek
Keywords: Asia, Japan

Richard von Glahn
Keywords: Asia, China, Economic History

Stanley Wolpert
Keywords: History, India

R. Bin Wong
Keywords: Asia, China

Damon Woods
Keywords: Southeast Asia

Law School

Taimie Bryant
Keywords: Asia, Japan

Arthur Rosett
Keywords: Asia, China

Linguistics

Sun-Ah Jun
Keywords: Korea

Kie Zuraw
Keywords: Asia, Linguistics, Philippines, Southeast Asia

Management (Anderson School)

Bhagwan Chowdhry
Keywords: Economic Theory, India

Michael Darby
Keywords: Economic Theory, Japan

Christopher L. Erickson
Keywords: Asia, Globalization, Labor, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), Pacific Rim, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia

Sanford Jacoby
Keywords: Asia, Economics, Japan

Archie Kleingartner
Keywords: Asia, China, Japan

Ed Leamer
Keywords: China, Econometrics, Economic Theory, Economics

Mariko Sakakibara
Keywords: Asia, Japan

Avanidhar Subrahmanyam
Keywords: Economic Theory, South Asia

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Vijay Dhir
Keywords: Asia, Engineering

Political Science

Richard Baum
Keywords: Asia, China, Politics

Michael L. Ross
Keywords: Asia, Development, Indonesia, Politics, Southeast Asia

Richard Sisson
Keywords: India

Kantathi Suphamongkhon
Keywords: Thailand

Michael Thies
Keywords: Asia, Japan

James Tong
Keywords: China, Politics

Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Robert Lemelson
Keywords: Asia, Health, Indonesia, Southeast Asia

Lobsang Rapgay
Keywords: Buddhist Studies

School of Medicine

Ka Kit Hui
Keywords: China

School of Public Affairs

Lois Takahashi
Keywords: Southeast Asia

School of Public Health

Roger Detels
Keywords: Asia, China, Health, Southeast Asia

Ralph Frerichs
Keywords: Asia, Health, Southeast Asia, Vietnam

Pamina Gorbach
Keywords: Asia, Health, Southeast Asia

Marjorie Kagawa-Singer
Keywords: Asia, China, Health, Japan, Southeast Asia

Snehendu Kar
Keywords: India

Virginia Li
Keywords: China, Chinese Studies, Health, Public Health

Donald Morisky
Keywords: Asia, Health, Philippines, Public Health, Southeast Asia

Ninez Ponce
Keywords: Asia, Health, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam

Stuart Schweitzer
Keywords: China

Social Welfare

Ailee Moon
Keywords: Korea

Sociology

Cameron Campbell
Keywords: China, Sociology

Lucie Cheng
Keywords: China

Adrian Favell
Keywords: Japan, Sociology

Elizabeth Frankenberg
Keywords: Asia, Health, Indonesia, Sociology, Southeast Asia

Patrick Heuveline
Keywords: Asia, Cambodia, Children and the Family, Formal Demography, Genocide, Political Violence, Southeast Asia

William Mason
Keywords: China, Chinese Studies, Sociology

Donald Treiman
Keywords: China

Min Zhou
Keywords: Chinese Studies

Theatre, Film & Television

Nick Browne
Keywords: Asia, China, Film

Patricia Harter
Keywords: Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia

Carol Sorgenfrei
Keywords: Film, Japan

Haiping Yan
Keywords: Asia, China, Chinese Studies

UCLA School of Public Policy

Tom Plate
Keywords: Asia, Pacific Rim

Women's Studies Program

Esha De
Keywords: Asia, India, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Women's Studies

Purnima Mankekar
Keywords: India

Mariko Tamanoi
Keywords: Asia, Japan

World Arts & Cultures

David Gere
Keywords: Art, Asia, India

Judy Mitoma
Keywords: Asia, Dance, East Asia, Indonesia, Japan, Japanese Studies, Southeast Asia

Peter Nabokov
Keywords: India

Cheng-chieh Yu
Keywords: Art, Asia, China, Dance

Young Research Library

Hong Cheng
Keywords: China

Esther Mi-Kyung Han
Keywords: Asia, East Asia, Korea

Toshie Marra
Keywords: Asia, East Asia, Japan

Amy Tsiang
Keywords: China, East Asia

Joseph Yue
Keywords: China, East Asia, Japan, Korea

For a campus-wide list of current faculty by regional specialization:

Asia Institute Executive Committee