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

Gary 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 Brosius (Ph.D. Michigan) Assistant Professor of Anthropology: Ecological Anthropology, South-East Asia.

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

Thomas W. Ganschow (Ph.D. Indiana) Associate Professor of History: Chinese History.

Alan A. Godlas (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) Associate Professor of Religion: Islam in Asia, Central Asia, Islamic Literature, Turkish, Persian, Arabic

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

Jared S. Klein (Ph.D. Yale) Professor of Classics: Sanskrit, Classical Armenian, and Indo-European Linguistics.

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.

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.

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

Shanta Ratnayaka (Ph.D. Northwestern) Professor of Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism; Religions of Asia.

Farley Richmond (Ph.D. Michigan State) Professor, Director of the Center for Asian Studies, and Head of Drama and Theatre Department: Asian Theatre and Drama with an emphasis in India.

Thomas J. Schoenbaum (J. D. Michigan) Dean Rusk Professor of Law and Director, Rusk Center for International and Comparative Law: Japanese Trade and Investment Law; Japanese and Chinese Environmental Law.

Bradley Tindall (Ph.D. Ohio State) Assistant Professor of Art: History of Art, India, South-East Asia, China.

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

Hyang-soon Yi (Ph.D. Penn State) Part-time Instructor in Korean.