Chelsea Foxwell

Director, Center for East Asian Studies
Associate Professor
Department of Art History
The College

5540 S Greenwood Ave
Cochrane-Woods Art Center 265
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-7946

Professor Foxwell is an art historian at the University of Chicago's Department of Art History whose work focuses on Japan’s artistic interactions with the rest of East Asia and beyond. Her scholarship ranges from the medieval through modern periods of Japanese art with special emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries.

For more information, visit Professor Foxwell's profile at the University of Chicago's Department of Art History.

 


Yukiko Asai

Assistant Instructional Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy

Room 3063

Yukiko Asai is an Assistant Instructional Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy.  Prior to joining Harris, Yukiko was a Junior Researcher (Assistant Professor) at Waseda University, Japan, a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo and a Visiting Researcher and Lecturer in Labor Economics at the University of California Berkeley. Her research and teaching areas are in labor economics and personnel economics, with particular focus on the effects of family leave and child care policies.

For more information, visit professor Asai's profile at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.


Michael Bourdaghs

Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
The College
Chair, Committee on Japanese Studies, CEAS

1050 E 59th St
Wieboldt 301L
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-1710

Professor Bourdaghs focuses on Japanese literature and cultural history, including Japanese popular music. He also explores the connection between literature and politics through the lens of critical theory.

For more information, visit Professor Bourdaghs's profile at the University of Chicago's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.


Susan Burns

Professor
Department of History
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
The College

1126 E. 59th St.
Social Sciences 221
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-8934

Professor Burns focuses on 19th century Japanese history, specifically the period between the Tokugawa era and the end of the Meiji period, and also the role of Western medicine in the lives of Japanese women.

For more information, visit Professor Burns's profile at the University of Chicago's Department of History.


Yuting Dong

Assistant Professor of East Asian History and the College

Professor Yuting Dong is a historian of modern Japan and East Asia. She is interested in questions on colonialism, history of labor and expertise, and environmental history. She is also working on a second project that examines the commodification and politicization of air in Japan’s colonial empire.

For more information, visit Professor Dong's profile at the University of Chicago's Department of History


Michael Fisch

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology and of Social Sciences
in the College

5836 S Greenwood Ave
Haskell M136
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-2128

Professor Fisch's research focuses on the effects of technology, nature, and culture on Japanese society. He is currently developing a project that explores the emergence of what he identifies as “experimental ecologies” that work to contest, recast, and re-conceive disaster infrastructure design in post-3.11 Japan. 

For more information, visit Profesor Fisch's profile at the University of Chicago's Department of Anthropology.


Thomas Lamarre

Gordon J Laing Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies,
East Asian Languages and Civilizations,
The College
Interim Chair, Committee on Japanese Studies, CEAS

Professor Lamarre is a scholar of media, cinema and animation, intellectual history and material culture, with projects ranging from the communication networks of 9th century Japan, to silent cinema and the global imaginary, animation technologies, and on television infrastructures and media ecology. 

For more information, visit Professor Lamarre's profile at the University's of Chicago's Department of Cinema and Media Studies for more information.


Stephan Licha

Assistant Professor

Professor Licha comes from the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Heidelberg. He received his PhD from SOAS (London) in 2012. Prof. Licha specializes in the intellectual history of Japanese Buddhism, with an emphasis on the interactions between the pre-modern tantric, Tendai, and Zen traditions, and the global history of Buddhist modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

For more information, please visit Prof. Licha's profile at the University of Chicago's Divinity School. 


Hoyt Long

Professor of Japanese Literature,
Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations,
Interim Director of the Japanese Language Program,

1050 E 59th St
Wieboldt 301C
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-1868

Professor Long's research and teaching interests include modern Japanese literature, regional and subnational literatures, publishing history, environmental history and criticism, media theory, and digital humanities. His first book, On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan (2011), examines the ways in which artistic and literary activity intersected with ideas about place and locality in Japan’s prewar period. He is currently working on a project that considers postal technologies of late 19th and early 20th century Japan as forms of “new media.” He is focusing on the ways these technologies impacted practices of writing—literary or otherwise—and how they may or may not have altered established patterns and ideas of social association and communication.

For more information, visit Professor Long's profile at the University of Chicago's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.


Melissa Van Wyk

Assistant Professor in Japanese Literature
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Wb 301I
773-834-1847

Professor Van Wyk's research focuses on early modern theater and performance, misemono spectacle shows, print and visual culture, disability studies, performance studies, and intersections between literature, theater, science, technology and medicine.

For more information, visit Profesor Van Wyk's profile at the University of Chicago's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations website


Kazuo Yamaguchi

Ralph Lewis Professor
Department of Sociology

1155 E 60th St
NORC 249
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 256-6324

Professor Yamaguchi is interested in statistical models for social data and mathematical models for social phenomena, the life course, rational choice, exchange networks, stratification and mobility, demography for family and employment, and process of drug use progression. His current research focuses on models of exchange networks and women's occupational careers in Japanese society.

For more information, visit Professor Yamaguchi's profile at the University of Chicago's Department of Sociology.


Ayako Yoshimura

Japanese Studies Librarian

1100 E 57th St
Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 520B
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-8434

Ayako Yoshimura joined the University of Chicago Library in June of 2015 after completing a Ph.D. in folklore at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she also served for five years as Japanese studies bibliographer. While remaining active internationally as a folklorist, Ayako assists students, faculty, and independent scholars from all disciplines in their Japanese-studies research across campus and beyond. 

For more information, visit Ayako Yoshimura's profile at the University of Chicago's Library.