FACULTY ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENTER FOR ASIAN STUDIES

Dezso Benedek ( Ph.D. Penn State) Associate Professor of Comparative Literature: Chinese and Japanese Language and Literature.

Gary K. Bertsch (Ph.D. Oregon) University Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for International Trade and Security: Communist and Post-Communist Systems; Trade and Security.

Peter J. Brosius (Ph.D. Michigan) Associate Professor of Anthropology: Ecological Anthropology, S.E. Asia.

Dorothy M. Figueira (Ph.D. Chicago) Professor of Comparative Literature: Religion and Literature,Translation Theory, Exoticism, Myth Theory, and Travel Narratives

Karl F. Friday (Ph.D. Stanford) Professor of History: Japanese History.

Alan Godlas (Ph.D. Berkeley) Associate Professor of Religion: Islam, Quranic and Hadith Studies, Arabic and Persian, Sufism.

Kenneth Honerkamp (Ph.D. Aiz-en Provence) Associate Professor of Religion:Arabic, Islamic texts, Shar'iah (Islamic Law), North Aftrican Sufism.

Edward T. Kanemasu (Ph.D. Wisconsin/Madison) Regents Professor of Crop and Soil Sciences: Director of the Center for International Agriculture and Assistant Dean of the College of Agriculture:Natural resource management.

Andy Kavoori (Ph.D. University of Maryland) Associate Professor of Telecommunications: Transnational Cultural Studies, Media theory and International Communication.

James Kirkland (Ph.D. Indiana) Professor of Religion: Traditional East Asian Religions.

Jared Stephen Klein (Ph.D. Yale) Professor of Classics and Director of Linguistics: Indo-European Linguistics; Sanskrit.

Ari Daniel Levine (Ph.D. Columbia) Assistant Professor of History: Cultural and intellectual history of early modern China, from 800 to 1600 CE.

Chor-pang Lo (Ph.D. Glasgow) Professor of Geography: Urban and Population Geography of China, Hong Kong.

Masaki Mori ( Ph.D. Penn State) Associate Professor of Comparative Literature: Japanese Language and Literature.

Karin Myhre (Ph.D. Berkeley) Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature: Chinese Language and Literature.

Clifton W. Pannell (Ph.D. Chicago) Professor of Geography and Associate Dean, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences: Economic and Urban Geography of China and East Asia.

Kavita Pandit ( Ph.D. Ohio State) Professor of Geography and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences: Third World Development, Population, and Migration.

Han-shik Park (Ph.D. Minnesota) Professor of Political Science and Director of Globis: Comparative East Asian Political Systems; Korea; Methodology.

Robert E. Rhoades (Ph.D. Oklahoma) Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Sustainable Human Ecosystem Laboratory: agricultural and natural resource anthropology.

Farley P. Richmond ( Ph.D. Michigan State) Professor of Drama and Theatre and Director of the Center for Asian Studies: Theatre and Drama of India and Asia.

William W. Stueck (Ph.D. Brown) Professor of History: U.S. policy toward China and Korea in the Cold War.

Glenn Wallis (Ph.D. Harvard) Associate Professor of Religion: Indian religions, Buddhism and Hinduism.

Kam-ming Wong (Ph.D. Cornell) Associate Professor of Comparative Literature: Chinese Language and Literature.

Hyang-soon Yi ( Ph.D. Penn State) Associate Professor of Comparative Literature: Korean literature and cinema, Japanese cinema, and Buddhism.

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