BUCSA Faculty

Alphabetical List

Boston University has over seventy faculty members who teach in areas relating to Asian Studies. Below is a complete alphabetical listing. If you would like to read more about an individual faculty  member, clicking on the name will direct you to personal pages with more biographical information, including courses.

Assistant Professor of Music (Musicology and Ethnomusicology)
Professor of Anthropology
Associate Professor Departments of Family Medicine and Pediatrics
Director, Boston Healing Landscape Project
Associate Professor of International Relations
Associate Professor of Comparative Theology
Director of Undergraduate Advising, Department of Philosophy
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Assistant Professor of Health Sciences
Professor of International Relations and History
Assistant Professor of British History
Assistant Professor of Asian Religions
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Archaeology
Managing Editor, Journal of East Asian Archaeology
Chairman and Professor of the Division of Social Science
Wiebke Denecke
denecke@bu.edu
Assistant Professor of Chinese, Japanese, and Comparative Literature
Associate Professor of Journalism
Associate Professor of Religion
Lecturer in Japanese
Assistant Professor in Islamic Art
Director, BU Center for the Study of Asia
Professor of International Relations and Political Science
Associate Professor of Japanese
Convener (division head) of Japanese
Assistant Professor of Sociology
June Grasso
jgrasso@bu.edu
Associate Professor of Social Science
Chair and Professor of International Relations
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Associate Professor of International Relations
Syed A. Hasnath
hasnath@bu.edu
Lecturer of Geography and the Environment
Miyuki Hatano-Cohen
miyukih@bu.edu
Part-time Lecturer in Japanese
Professor of Anthropology
Associate Director in the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs
Director, Program on Islam and Civil Society
Associate Professor of Music (Musicology and Ethnomusicology)
Lecturer in Japanese
Director of Outreach and Co-Curricular Activities for Japanese
Chang Hsiao-Chih
ciao@bu.edu
Preceptor in Chinese
Lecturer, Department of English and Creative Writing Program
Assistant Professor of Religion
Professor of English and in the Creative Writing Program
Associate Professor of Sociology
Associate Professor of Operations and Technology
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Professor of Religion and Anthropology
Associate Professor of English
Senior Lecturer of Social Science
Associate Professor of Religion
Lecturer of Women’s Studies
Associate Professor of Chinese History
Master Lecturer in Turkish
Assistant Professor of Religion
Assistant Professor of International Relations
Hiromi Miyagi-Lusthaus
hmiyagi@bu.edu
Lecturer in Japanese
Professor of Archaeology and Heritage Management
Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology
Director, International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History (ICEAACH)
Assistant Professor of Japanese History
Etsuko Okita Snyder
eokita@bu.edu
Head of Japanese Language Program
Lecturer of Japanese
Associate Professor of History
Charles K. and Elisabeth M. Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature
Assistant Professor of Religion
Professor of Religion
Bai Qianshen
qbai@bu.edu
Associate Professor of Asian and Chinese Art
Professor of Music
Lecturer in Korean
Head of Korean Language Program

Assistant Professor  Department and Center for International Health

Robert B. Saper
Robert.saper@bmc.org
Assistant Professor Department of Family Medicine
Director, Integrative Medicine
Associate Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Associate Professor of Japanese Art and Architecture
Sushil Vachani
svachani@bu.edu
Professor of Strategy and Policy (SMG)
Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Chairman, Professor of Anthropology
Research Associate, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs
Professor of Anthropology
Part-time Lecturer in Chinese
H. Denis Wu
hdw@bu.edu
Associate Professor of Communication
Aimin Yan
aimin@bu.edu
Associate Professor/Faculty Director, IMP, Organizational Behavior Department
Min Ye
ye@bu.edu
Assistant Professor of International Relations
Associate Professor of Chinese
Convener of Chinese Language
Lecturer in Chinese
Head of Chinese Language Program