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Asian Studies Programs - Chairs and Directors

Chair of the Council on Asian Studies: Karen L. Thornber
Acting Chair of the Council on Asian Studies: Andrew D. Gordon

Faculty of the Council on Asian Studies

Ryuichi Abé, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religion
William P. Alford, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law (Law School)
Ali S. Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures (on leave Fall term)
Peter A. Berman, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Systems and Economics (School of Public Health)
Theodore C. Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology
Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities
Barry R. Bloom, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health (School of Public Health)
Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs (on leave Fall term)
Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology (on leave 2016-17)
Paul Y. Chang, Assistant Professor of Sociology
James K. Cheng, Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library
Genevieve A. Clutario, Assistant Professor of History and of History and Literature
Diana L. Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society; Harvard College Professor
Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History (on leave Spring term)
Mark C. Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History
Rowan K. Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Anthropology
Jeremy S. Friedman, Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Byron J. Good, Professor of Medical Anthropology (Medical School)
Mary-Jo D. Good, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine (Medical School)
Andrew D. Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History
Stephen F. Gray, Assistant Professor of Urban Design (School of Design)
Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies (Divinity School)
Rema N. Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies (Kennedy School)
Michael F. Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences (on leave Fall term)
David Howell, Professor of Japanese History
William C. Hsiao, K.T. Li Professor of Economics (School of Public Health)
C.-T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics
Wesley M. Jacobsen, Professor of the Practice of the Japanese Language and Director of the Japanese Language Program
Jay H. Jasanoff, Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology
Sheila S. Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies (Kennedy School)
Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor) (Business School)
Jinah Kim, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave Fall term)
Ju Yon Kim, Associate Professor of English (on leave 2016-17)
Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History
William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies (FAS) and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration (Business School)
Arthur M. Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology (FAS) and Professor of Medical Anthropology (Medical School) (on leave Fall term)
Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History; Harvard College Professor
Wai-Yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature
Yukio Lippit, Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Erez Manela, Professor of History
Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies
Ian J. Miller, Professor of History
Anne E. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions (Divinity School)
Toshiko Mori, Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture (School of Design)
Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor (on leave Spring term)
Si Nae Park, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (on leave 2016-17)
Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy
Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government
Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics
Michael J. Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History; Harvard College Professor
John M. Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies (Law School)
James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (on leave Fall term)
Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy (Kennedy School)
Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design (School of Design)
Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs (Kennedy School)
Daniel M. Smith, Assistant Professor of Government
Mary M. Steedly, Professor of Anthropology
Ajantha Subramanian, Professor of Anthropology
Jeannie C. Suk Gersen, Professor of Law (Law School)
Michael A. Szonyi, Professor of Chinese History
Karen L. Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (on leave 2016-17)
Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature
Leonard W. van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
Charles A. Waldheim, John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture (School of Design)
David D. Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and of Comparative Literature
Yuhua Wang, Assistant Professor of Government
Michael E. Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit
Richard Wolf, Professor of Music
Mark Wu, Assistant Professor of Law (Law School)
Tomiko Yoda, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities
Alexander N. Zahlten, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Sub Committee Members


Faculty of the Standing Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History and East Asian Languages

Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History (Chair)
Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History
Mark Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History
Arunabh Ghosh, Assistant Professor of History
Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History
David Howell, Professor of Japanese History (on leave Fall term)
Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History
William Kirby, T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration (Business School), and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor (on leave Fall term)
Ian J. Miller, Professor of History (on leave Fall term)
Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History; Harvard College Professor (on leave 2015-16)
Michael Szonyi, Professor of Chinese History

As of 2006, the Standing Committee on the PhD in History and East Asian Languages is not accepting new applications to the program. Interested students should consult the listing for the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations under "Degree in History and East Asian Languages" in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Handbook.


Faculty of the Standing Committee on the Degree of Master of Arts in Regional Studies-East Asia

Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature (Chair)
Paul Chang, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences
Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History
Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics
Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art
Alexander Zahlten, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

The program in Regional Studies-East Asia, leading to a Master of Arts degree, is a basic preparation (1) for students who intend to go on to PhD work in an East Asian specialization; and (2) for students who wish to equip themselves for nonacademic work. The program, which normally requires two years for completion, aims to make the student broadly conversant with the societies of the region, and also to give him or her a sound knowledge of one of the languages of the area. Details may be obtained from the Committee's offices at 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 or 617-495-3777.

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