Asian Studies at Boston University

Boston University has over forty faculty members who teach in areas relating to Asian Studies. The following is an alphabetical listing, organized by department for your convenience. If you would like to read more about our faculty, clicking on the name will direct you to a page with more biographical information, including courses and a link to a complete CV.

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Anthropology

Thomas Barfield barfield@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology
Shahla Haeri shaeri@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Anthropology Director of the Women's Studies Program
Robert Hefner rhefner@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology Associate Director in the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs Director, Program on Islam and Civil Society
Nancy Smith-Hefner smhefner@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Anthropology
Robert Weller rpweller@bu.edu	Chairman, Professor of Anthropology Research Associate, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs
Merry White corky@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Archaeology

David J. Cohen dcohen@bu.edu	Adjunct Assistant Professor of Archaeology Managing Editor, Journal of East Asian Archaeology
Mohammad Mughal mughal@bu.edu	Professor of Archaeology and Heritage Management
Robert Murowchick remurow@bu.edu	Research Associate Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology Director, International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History (ICEAACH)

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Art History

Qianshen Bai qbai@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Asian and Chinese Art
Alice Tseng aytseng@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History

College of Arts and Sciences Department of English and Creative Department of English and Creative Writing Program

Xuefei Jin (Ha Jin) xjin@bu.edu

Professor of English and in the Creative Writing Program

College of Arts and Sciences Department of English and Creative Writing Program

Esther T. Hu
ethu@bu.edu

Lecturer

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Geography

Syed A. Hasnath
hasnath@bu.edu

Lecturer of Geography and the Environment

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of History

Arianne Chernock chernock@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of British History
Eugenio Menegon emenegon@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Chinese History

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of International Relations

Thomas Berger tuberger@bu.edu	Associate Professor of International Relations
Joseph Fewsmith fewsmith@bu.edu	Director of the East Asian Studies Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Program Professor of International Relations and Political Science
William Grimes wgrimes@bu.edu	Associate Chairman Associate Professor of International Relations
Husain Haqqani haqqani@bu.edu	Director, Center for International Relations Associate Professor of International Relations
Adil Najam anajam@bu.edu	Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center Professor of International Relations and Geography and the Environment
Min Ye ye@bu.edu	Assistant Professor

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature

Hsiao-Chih Chang ciao@bu.edu	Preceptor in Chinese
Anna Elliott aelliott@bu.edu	Lecturer on Japanese
Sarah Frederick sfred@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Japanese Convener (division head) of Japanese Language
Masako Fujiyama-D'Auria fujiyama@bu.edu	Lecturer on Japanese
Miyuki Hatano-Cohen miyukih@bu.edu	Part-time Lecturer in Japanese
Mariko Itoh Henstock henstock@bu.edu	Lecturer in Japanese Coordinator of Japanese Language
Weijia Huang huangwj@bu.edu	Lecturer in Chinese
Yoon Hee Jung yoonjung@bu.edu	Part-time Lecturer in Korean
Yoko Kiser yokok@bu.edu	Lecturer in Japanese
Xuehan Liu xhliu@bu.edu	Part-time Lecturer in Chinese
Yuichi Moroi yuichim@bu.edu	Part-time Lecturer in Japanese
Etsuko Okita eokita@bu.edu	Lecturer on Japanese Coordinator of First-Year Japanese
Jaemin Roh jmroh@bu.edu	Instructor in Korean
Sunil Sharma sharma@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer
Noriko Sugimori sugimori@bu.edu	Part-time Lecturer in Japanese
Xianghua Tu txh@bu.edu	Part-time Lecturer in Chinese
Keith Vincent kvincent@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature Director of Undergraduate Studies Acting Convener of Japanese
Yue Wang yuewang@bu.edu	Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant in Chinese
I-hao Woo ihwoo@bu.edu	Lecturer on Chinese
Catherine Yeh yeh@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Chinese Convener of Chinese Language
Xiaoyang Zhou xzhou@bu.edu	Lecturer in Chinese Head of Chinese Language Program

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Philosophy

Tianyu Cao
tycao@bu.edu

Director of Undergraduate Advising, Department of Philosophy
Associate Professor of Philosophy

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Religion

Gina Cogan gcogan@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Asian Religions
David Eckel mdeckel@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Religion
Frank Korom korom@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Religion and Anthropology
Stephen R. Prothero prothero@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Religion

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Sociology

Nazli Kibria nkibria@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Sociology
Julian Go juliango@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Sociology

College of Arts and Sciences Department of English and Creative Women's Studies

Brenda Gael McSweeney
bgm@bu.edu

Lecturer of Women's Studies

College of Communications

John J. Schulz
jjshulz@bu.edu

Professor of International Communication

College of Fine Arts

Brita Heimarck heimarck@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology
David Hebert dghebert@bu.edu	Assistant Professor in Music Education
André de Quadros adq@bu.edu	Professor of Music

College of General Studies

Jay Corrin jckuch@bu.edu	Chairman and Professor of the Division of Social Science
June Grasso jgrasso@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Social Science
Shelley Hawks sdhawks@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Social Science
Susan Lee susanlee@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Social Science

Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Kee Chan
keechan@bu.edu

Assistant Professor of Health Sciences

School of Law

Charles Whitehead
ckw@bu.edu

Associate Professor of Law

School of Management

Jay Kim jkimjr@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Operations and Technology
Sushil Vachani svachani@bu.edu	Professor, Strategy and Policy Department
Aimin Yan aimin@bu.edu	Associate Professor/Faculty Director, IMP, Organizational Behavior Department

School of Medicine

Linda L. Barnes
linda.barnes@bmc.org

Associate Professor Departments of Family Medicine and Pediatrics
Director, Boston Healing Landscape Project

School of Public Health

Lora Sabin
lsabin@bu.edu

Assistant Professor Department and Center for International Health

School of Theology

John Berthrong jhb@bu.edu	Associate Dean for Academic and Administrative Affairs Associate Professor of Comparative Theology
Chai-sik Chung sikchung@bu.edu	Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics

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