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Stephanie Balkwill
Email:
balkwill@humnet.ucla.edu
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Kim Mc Nelly
Assistant Director
Email:
kmcnelly@international.ucla.edu
Faculty and Affiliates
Stephanie Balkwill
Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
Torquil Duthie
Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures
Devin Fitzgerald
Curator of Rare Books and History of Printing
Stephanie Jamison
Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures
Kristopher W. Kersey
Associate Professor, Art History
Nancy Levine
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Lobsang Rapgay
Research Scientist, Director of Behavioral Medicine Clinic and Program, Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA Semel Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA
Meng Tong
Robert H. N. Ho Buddhism Public Scholar, Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library
Lothar von Falkenhausen
Professor, Art History & Archaeology
Emeriti
William Bodiford
Professor Emeritus, Asian Languages & Cultures
Robert L. Brown
Professor Emeritus, Dept of Art History
Robert Buswell
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Asian Languages & Cultures
Sherry B. Ortner
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology
Gregory Schopen
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures
Richard Strassberg
Professor Emeritus, Asian Languages and Cultures
Graduate Students
Arushi Bahuguna
PhD student
Pow Camacho-Lemus
PhD student
Guanrui Gong
PhD student
Yuxuan Tay
Ph D student
Alumni
2025
Thomas Newhall
PhD
2024
Seongryong Lee
PhD
2023
Jonathan Feuer
PhD
2022
Yue Eric Tojimbara
PhD
2021
Sungha Yun
PhD
Philip Hsu
PhD
2020
Matthew Hayes
Japanese Studies and Asian American Studies Librarian, Duke
Mya Chau
PhD
2019
Frederick Ranallo-Higgins
PhD
Soyeon Kim
PhD
Diego Loukota Sanclemente
Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
Website:
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/in-memoriam-diego-loukota-asian-buddhism
2018
Yu-Chen (Guo-Xing) Tsui
PhD
Dermott J. Walsh
PhD
2016
Jessica Farquhar
PhD
2015
Lindsey Dewitt
PhD
2014
Sumi Lee
PhD
Jason McCombs
PhD
Maya Stiller
PhD
Caleb Carter
PhD
2013
J. Wayne Bass
PhD
Seong-Uk Kim
PhD
Ryoji Kishino
PhD
2011
Seunghak Koh
PhD
Karen Muldoon-Hules
PhD
2010
Diane Riggs
PhD
Minku Kim
PhD
Mark Nathan
PhD
Sherin Wing
PhD
2006
William Chu
PhD
Shayne Clarke
PhD
2001
James Benn
PhD
Website:
jamesabenn.ca
George Keyworth
PhD
Website:
https://artsandscience.usask.ca/profile/GKeyworth#/profile
Richard McBride
PhD
Harumi Ziegler
PhD
2000
Mario Poceski
PhD
Website:
www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mpoceski/
Pre-2000
Robert DeCaroli
PhD
Pori Park
PhD
Website:
shprs.clas.asu.edu/park
Kurt Behrendt
PhD
Sherry Fowler
PhD
Gail Chin
PhD
Jongmyung Kim
PhD
Ding-hwa Evelyn Hsieh
PhD
Chiwah Chan
PhD
Jacqueline Stone
PhD
Mimi Yiengpruksawan
PhD
Junghee Lee
PhD
Ming-Wood Liu
PhD
In Memoriam
Diego Loukota Sanclemente
Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures
Website:
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/in-memoriam-diego-loukota-asian-buddhism