Asia-Related Faculty
Asian Studies at Boston University has grown over the last two decades into one of the best and most comprehensive clusters of faculty and resources in New England. Over fifty full-time faculty and instructors focus on Asia across nearly all relevant fields and geographical areas, from East Asia all the way to Turkey.
Many of our faculty members are internationally renowned leaders in their fields, and all of our faculty members are enthusiastic teachers who offer an expansive set of courses.
Faculty by Last Name
Faculty by Department
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Anthropology
Professor of Anthropology (Social anthropology, political economy, anthropology and history, pastoral nomadism. Near East and Central Asia. Afghanistan)
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Professor emerita of Anthropology (Social/Cultural anthropology, gender, law, religion. Iran, Middle East, South Asia) |
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Professor of Anthropology and International Relations; Director of the Center for the Study of Asia (Cultural theory, religion and modernity, political theory, political economy, democracy, Islam, Southeast Asia)
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Professor of Anthropology (Orangutan behavior and biology, reproductive physiology of male and female orangutans, conservation)
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Professor emeritus of Religion and Anthropology (Folklore, religion, ritual and performance. South Asia, Caribbean, Tibet) | |
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropology (Psychological, medical, and linguistic anthropology; ethics, morality and subjectivity; narrative and language socialization; illness and recovery; gender, family and kinship; Vietnam and Southeast Asia; food and eating disorders; memory, ritual, and experience; Israel)
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Professor of Anthropology; Research Associate, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (Religion and ritual, environment, political change and civil life, anthropological theory, China and Taiwan)
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Professor emerita of Anthropology (Urban Japan; food studies; travel and tourism; family, elderly and social change in Japan; the cafe and social spaces in Japanese cities)
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College of Arts and Sciences
Archaeology Program
Professor Emeritus of Archaeology | |
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer on Archaeology Director, AsianArc: The Asian Cultural Heritage Research Initiative (formerly the International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History, or ICEAACH) |
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Economics
Dilip Mookherjee dilipm@bu.edu |
Director of the Institute for Economic Development; Professor of Economics |
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English
Ha Jin (Xuefei Jin) xjin@bu.edu |
Professor of English and in the Creative Writing Program |
Professor of English |
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Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Professor and Director, Kilachand Honors College (modernist literature, performance, and dance, feminist and queer theory, and transnational and postcolonial studies) | |
Assistant Professor of English (performance studies, ethnic studies, and queer theory in U.S. American cultural production) |
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of History
Professor of History (History of the Middle East, social and intellectual history of the Arab world, history of education, and modern world history)
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Professor of International Relations and History (Middle Eastern politics and cultural history, international law)
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Associate Professor of History
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Assistant Professor of History (socio-cultural legal history of US race and empire, focusing on the Philippines)
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Rui Hua ruihua@bu.edu |
Assistant Professor of History
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Associate Professor of History (Chinese-Western relations in late imperial times, Chinese religions and Christianity in China, Chinese science, intellectual history of Republican China, history of maritime Asia, Chinese food history) |
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Charles K. and Elizabeth M. Kenosian Professor of History (Armenian history)
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Associate Professor of History (Japanese History; Black and Asian Cultural Encounter)
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Associate Professor of History (Modern South Asia, environmental history, agricultural history, history of medicine and the body, history of economic lifeModern South Asia, environmental history, agricultural history, history of medicine and the body, history of economic life)
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College of Arts and Sciences
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Qianshen Bai qbai@bu.edu |
Associate Professor Emeritus of Asian and Chinese Art |
Anne Anning Feng annefeng@bu.edu |
Assistant Professor in Asian Art History |
Professor Emerita, Japanese Art History | |
Professor of Practice, Preservation Studies Program | |
Fosca Maddaloni
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Lecturer, History of Art and Architecture (Chinese art) |
Alice Tseng aytseng@bu.edu |
Professor of Japanese Art and Architecture and CAS Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Humanities |
College of Arts and Sciences
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
Division of International Studies
Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
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Associate Professor of Global Development Policy, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies (comparative politics, international development, political economy, and gender, with a geographical focus on South Asia)
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Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
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Professor of Global Development Policy, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; Director, Global Development Policy Center | |
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; Professor of International Relations and Political Science
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Research Professor, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies (IR scholar and diplomat with a special interest in the international politics of the Global South)
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Associate Professor of Global Development Policy, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies | |
Assistant Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
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Associate Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; Director of CURA: The Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs |
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Associate Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies | |
Professor of International Relations and Earth & Environment, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies | |
John Woodward, Jr. jdwjr@bu.edu |
Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies |
Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; Director of Undergraduate Studies |
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Linguistics
Charles Chang | Associate Professor of Linguistics |
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of World Languages & Literatures
Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures | |
Master Lecturer in Japanese, Director, MFA in Literary Translation, Department of World Languages & Literatures | |
Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures | |
Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature |
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Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
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Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
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Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
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Senior Lecturer in Korean, Department of World Languages & Literatures
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Lecturer in Korean, Department of World Languages & Literatures
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Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
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Professor, Chinese and Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of World Languages & Literatures | |
Professor of the Practice in Turkish, Department of World Languages & Literatures
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Hiromi Miyagi-Lusthaus hmiyagi@bu.edu |
Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures |
Amber Navarre navarrea@bu.edu |
Master Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures |
Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
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Senior Lecturer in Hindi, Department of World Languages & Literatures
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Master Lecturer in Korean, Department of World Languages & Literatures |
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Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature, Department of World Languages & Literatures
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Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
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Master Lecturer in World Languages & Literatures and Core Curriculum, Department of World Languages and Literatures
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Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures | |
Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of World Languages & Literatures | |
Assistant Professor of East Asian Literatures, Department of World Languages & Literatures | |
Master Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures |
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Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature, Department of World Languages & Literatures | |
Assistant Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature Convener of Chinese Language | |
Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Department of World Languages & Literatures | |
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College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy Director of Undergraduate Advising, Department of Philosophy |
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Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology Emeritus |
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Religion
Professor of Religion (Islamic law; women and gender; ethics; and biography)
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Assistant Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions
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Professor of Religion (history of Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet, the relationship between Buddhism and other Indian religions, the expansion and adaptation of Buddhism in Asia and the West, Buddhist narrative traditions and their relationship to Buddhist ethics, and the connection between philosophical theory and religious practice)
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Professor of Religion, CORE and Cinema & Media Studies (Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Asian Religions, Buddhist Art and Comparative Asian Medical Traditions)
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Associate Professor of Religion (medieval Chinese religion within broader cultural and social contexts, medieval Chinese Buddhist manuscripts and mural paintings at Dunhuang, northwest China)
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Professor emeritus of Religion and Anthropology (Folklore, religion, ritual and performance. South Asia, Caribbean, Tibet) | |
Lecturer on Religion (Chinese philosophy and religion with a focus on Song Dynasty intellectual history and Neo-Confucianism; comparative religion)
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Associate Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies (Classical and medieval Jewish studies; Comparative philosophy and religious thought) |
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Professor of Religion; C. Allyn and Elizabeth V. Russell Professor of Religion (Religion and culture in the United States) | |
Associate Professor of Religion (South Asian religions with specialties in Muslim and Hindu devotional literature, religious identity formation, and modern Islam)
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College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Sociology
Joseph Harris josephh@bu.edu |
Associate Professor of Sociology |
Professor of Sociology, and Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Sociology
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College of Arts and Sciences
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
UNITWIN Director |
College of Arts and Sciences
Writing Program
Lecturer, CAS Writing Program
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Lecturer, CAS Writing Program; and Fellow, BU International History Institute |
College of Communication
Associate Professor of Journalism
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Lei GUO guolei@bu.edu |
Associate Professor, Division of Emerging Media Studies
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Chris Chao Su |
Assistant Professor, Emerging Media Studies
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H. Denis Wu hdw@bu.edu |
Professor of Communication |
College of Fine Arts
Associate Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology | |
Associate Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology
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Assistant Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology
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Professor of Music | |
Assistant Professor of Art, Graphic Design Program |
College of General Studies
Professor, Social Sciences
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Associate Professor of Social Science
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Master Lecturer of Social Science
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Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Assistant Professor of Health Sciences
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Karen Jacobs kjacobs@bu.edu |
Clinical Professor of Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitative Counseling |
School of Education
Associate Professor of Education
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School of Management
Associate Professor of Operations and Technology
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Senior Lecturer of Operations and Technology Management
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Professor/Faculty Director, IMP, Organizational Behavior Department
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School of Medicine
Linda L. Barnes lbarnes@bu.edu |
Professor Departments of Family Medicine and Pediatrics
Director, Boston Healing Landscape Project |
Robert B. Saper rsaper@bu.edu |
Professor, Department of Family Medicine Director, Integrative Medicine |
School of Public Health
Associate Professor of Global Health (research interests have focused on child survival, and include diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, pneumococcal and meningococcal disease, adherence to HIV medications, and neonatal survival; teaching, mentoring, and conducting research in the areas of HIV medication adherence in China, advocacy around child mortality due to diarrhea and pneumonia, pertussis and RSV disease surveillance in Zambia, and capacity building of Vietnamese community health workers using SMS text messaging.) | |
Research Assistant Professor of Global Health (research interests include developing and testing interventions to reduce socio-economic, cultural, and behavioral barriers to reproductive, maternal and child health in HIV affected and/or resource-poor settings; the intersection between intimate partner violence against (IPV) and mental health (including depression and suicidality) among pregnant and postpartum women in India; IPV in Bangladesh) |
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Assistant Professor of Global Health (global health nutritional epidemiology; She has expertise in quantitative research methods; nutrition interventions in low-resource settings; assessment of diet and nutritional status; and maternal, child and adolescent health. She has experience working in both sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia with academic institutions, UN agencies and non-governmental organizations.) | |
Associate Professor of Global Health (gender, sexuality, HIV, and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia.) |
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Adjunct Professor of Global Health (Director of the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane, Laos; main research interests include the epidemiology and detection of substandard and falsified medical products and on the diversity of fevers, especially rickettsial pathogens, in rural Asia and their epidemiology and how they can be diagnosed and managed) |
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Associate Professor of Global Health (behavioral interventions and applied economics related to child health and welfare, HIV and AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases in Africa, Asia, and Latin America; TB-related stigma in India; knowledge and support improvements in continuing medical education among medical care providers (community-based health workers and HIV providers) in Vietnam; assessing the impact of real-time feedback to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive individuals in China) |
School of Theology
Assistant Professor of Spiritual Care and Counseling, School of Theology
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Clinical Associate Professor of Practical Theology
Director of the Anna Howard Shaw Center
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Research Assistant Professor of Mission; Associate Director of Center for Global Christianity & Mission
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Dana Robert drobdan@bu.edu |
Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission; Director of Center for Global Christianity & Mission |
Peng Yin pengyin@bu.edu |
Assistant Professor Ethics, School of Theology |