The Faculty
Full-Time Faculty
| | | Joel Andreas (Ph.D, UCLA) is a sociologist studying social change in China since 1949, focusing on the institutional foundations of social inequality. |
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| Erin Chung (Ph.D, Northwestern) studies the politics of East Asia, with particular interests in citizenship, immigration, and civil society in Japan and South Korea. |  | Marta Hanson (Ph.D, UPenn) is an historian of medicine in late imperial China who works on the history of disease, epidemics, regionalism, gender, publishing, and the interaction between elite and vernacular knowledge of Chinese medicine. |  | | | Tobie Meyer-Fong (Ph.D, Stanford) studies the history of late imperial and modern China, with particular focus on issues of conflict, commemoration, and literary culture. |
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| William T. Rowe (Ph.D, Columbia) is an historian of late imperial and modern China, with interests in urban and rural social organization, violence, and the history of Chinese political thought. | 
| Kellee S. Tsai (Ph.D, Columbia) is a political scientist who specializes in the domestic politics of contemporary China, with interests in the political economy of development, finance,and informal institutions. |
Adjunct and Affiliated Faculty | Rebecca M. Brown (Ph.D, UMinnesota) focuses on questions of politics and modernity in the visual culture of South Asia from the 18th century to the present; her teaching includes the art of East, Southeast, and South Asia since antiquity. |  | Bavo Lievens (M.A, National University of Ghent, Belgium) studies Buddhism and Chinese Thought (Confucianism and Daoism), with focus on universal insight/wisdom and practice/realization. | 
| Sharlyn Rhee (Ph.D, UChicago) studies modernism, poetry, translation, and comparative literary studies in English, German and Korean |  | Tomoko Steen (Ph.D, Cornell) does comparative science studies between Japan and other countries in topics such as eugenics, genetics, molecular biology, evolutionary biology, women in science, epidemiology, and ABC weapons. |  | Min Suh Son (Ph.D, UCLA) focuses on the history of East Asian technology; history of electrification; 19th century Korean Enlightenment; technologies of surveillance and colonial cities; history of cities, space, and society. |
This core group is supplemented by a number of excellent language instructors, by other Krieger School faculty with comparative interests in East Asia (including strong concentrations of South Asianists, Africanists, and Latin Americanists), and by a distinguished group of East Asianist faculty at such nearby Baltimore institutions as Towson University, Loyola University of Maryland, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, who routinely participate in our seminars. Staff
 | Yuanyuan Zeng is the Librarian for East Asian Studies. She is also a Ph.D candidate in anthropolgy at Catholic University of America. | | Jennifer Lin is the program assistant of East Asian Studies. She is also a Ph.D candidate in political science at Johns Hopkins University.
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