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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

Robert Lemelson
Keywords: Asia, Health, Human Rights, Indonesia, Political Violence, Public Health, Southeast Asia

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

Sherry B. Ortner
Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, China, Cultural anthropology, India, Japan, Korea, Religion, South Asia, Tibet

Kyeyoung Park
Keywords: Korea

Monica L. Smith
Keywords: Archaeology, Asia, India

Mariko Tamanoi
Keywords: Asia, Japan

Yunxiang Yan
Keywords: China, Cultural anthropology

Archaeology

Min Li
Keywords: Archaeology, China, Southeast Asia

Monica L. 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, Art History, 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 Center

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

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

Purnima Mankekar
Keywords: India

Shu-mei Shih
Keywords: Asia, China

Asian Languages and Cultures

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

William Bodiford
Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, Japan

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

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

Jack W. Chen
Keywords: China, Chinese Studies

Robert Chi
Keywords: China, Literature, Politics

Jane Choi
Keywords: Art, Korea, Language

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

Christopher P. Hanscom
Keywords: Korea, Literature

Natasha Heller
Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, China, Japan, Korea, Religion

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, India, South Asia

Jennifer Jung-Kim
Keywords: History, Korea

Namhee Lee
Keywords: Asia, Korea

Peter Lee
Keywords: Korea, Korean Studies, Literature

Min Li
Keywords: Archaeology, China, Southeast Asia

Seiji Lippit
Keywords: Japan, Japanese Literature

Gyanam Mahajan
Keywords: Cultural Studies, India

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: Christianity, History, Korea

Sherry B. Ortner
Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, China, Cultural anthropology, India, Japan, Korea, Religion, South Asia, Tibet

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

Gregory Schopen
Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, China, India, Japan, Korea, Religion

Shu-mei Shih
Keywords: Asia, China

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

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

Asako Hayashi Takakura
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

Comparative Literature

Aamir Mufti
Keywords: Literature, Politics, South Asia

Shu-mei Shih
Keywords: Asia, China

Department of History

Andrea Goldman
Keywords: China

Nile Green
Keywords: South Asia

Vinay Lal
Keywords: History, India

William Marotti
Keywords: 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, Southeast Asia

Sharon Traweek
Keywords: Asia, Japan

Richard von Glahn
Keywords: Asia, China, Economic History

R. Bin Wong
Keywords: Asia, China

Damon Woods
Keywords: Southeast Asia

Department of Women's Studies

Purnima Mankekar
Keywords: India

Mariko Tamanoi
Keywords: Asia, Japan

Sharon Traweek
Keywords: Asia, Japan

Earth & Space Sciences

An Yin
Keywords: China

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Paul Barber
Keywords: Environment, Indonesia, Southeast Asia

Economics

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

English

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

Ethnomusicology

Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Keywords: Music, South Asia

Abhiman Kaushal
Keywords: Music, South Asia

Dong Suk Kim
Keywords: Korea, Music

Chi Li
Keywords: China, Music

Daniel M. Neuman
Keywords: Asia, India, Music, South Asia

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, India

Geography

Lisa Kim Davis
Keywords: Geography, Korea

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

C. Cindy Fan
Keywords: Asia, China

Yongkang Xue
Keywords: Asia, China, Geography

Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

John N. Hawkins
Keywords: Asia, China, Education

Linguistics

Sun-Ah Jun
Keywords: Korea

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

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Vijay Dhir
Keywords: Asia, Engineering, India, South Asia

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Ismail K. Poonawala
Keywords: South Asia

Political Science

Richard Baum
Keywords: Asia, China, Politics

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

Kantathi Suphamongkhon
Keywords: Thailand

Michael Thies
Keywords: Asia, Japan

James Tong
Keywords: China, Politics

Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Lobsang Rapgay
Keywords: Buddhist Studies

School of Medicine

Ka Kit Hui
Keywords: China

Rome Jutabha
Keywords: Thailand

School of Public Affairs

Vinit Mukhija
Keywords: India

Lois Takahashi
Keywords: Southeast Asia

Rui Wang
Keywords: Asia, China

School of Public Health

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

Ralph Frerichs
Keywords: Asia, Health

Pamina Gorbach
Keywords: Asia, Health, Southeast Asia

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

Snehendu Kar
Keywords: Health, India, Public Health

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

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

Ching Kwan Lee
Keywords: China

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

Aparna Sharma
Keywords: Asia, Film, India, Indian Ocean diaspora, South Asia

Carol Sorgenfrei
Keywords: Film, Japan

UCLA Anderson School of Management

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

UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library

Su Chen
Keywords: Asia, China, East Asia, Japan, Korea

Hong Cheng
Keywords: China

Yun-Hee Lee
Keywords: East Asia, Korea

Toshie Marra
Keywords: Asia, East Asia, Japan

UCLA Law

Adam Schorr
Keywords: China, Law

Urban Planning

Vinit Mukhija
Keywords: India

Rui Wang
Keywords: Asia, China

World Arts & Cultures

Anurima Banerji
Keywords: Asia, Dance, India, Indian Ocean diaspora, South Asia

David Gere
Keywords: Art, Asia, India

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

Peter Nabokov
Keywords: India

Janet O'Shea
Keywords: Dance, South Asia

Aparna Sharma
Keywords: Asia, Film, India, Indian Ocean diaspora, South Asia

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

Asia Institute Executive Committee