CEAS Affiliated Faculty Members

Yoonsun Choi

Professor
School Of Social Service Administration

SSA E13
969 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637

yoonsun@uchicago.edu

Professor Choi researches how race, ethnicity and culture fundamentally shape the development of minority and immigrant youth, a growing demographic in the US. She is interested in how these preteens and teens manage family and peer group pressures and wrestle with stereotypes, and how these pressure impact their mental health and academic performance.

For more information, visit Professor Choi's profile at the University of Chicago's School for Social Science Administration. 

Thomas Ginsburg

Leo Spitz Professor of International Law
Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar
The Law School
Department of Political Science

1111 E. 60th St, Room 525
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-9494

tginsburg@uchicago.edu

Professor Ginsburg specializes in contemporary and international law. He is also on the board of the Comparative Constitutions Project, which examines the constitutions of every independent nation-state since 1789.

For more information, visit Professor Ginsburg's profile at the University of Chicago's Law School.

Angie Heo

Assistant Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion
Divinity School
The College

Swift Hall 228
1025 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-1867

heo@uchicago.edu

Professor Heo is an anthropologist of religion, media, and economy.  Her research and teaching at the University of Chicago's Divinity School covers a range of topics related to the critical study of global Christianities in the modern world. These topics explore the intersection of everyday religious practices with colonial and national institutions of rule, along with political economies of development and globalization.

For more information, visit Professor Heo's profile at the University of Chicago's Divinity School. 

Chang-Tai Hsieh

Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Professor of Economics
PCL Faculty Scholar
Booth School of Business

5807 S Woodlawn Ave
Room 517
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-0590

chsieh@chicagobooth.edu

Professor Hsieh conducts research on growth and development. Hsieh has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis, as well as the World Bank's Development Economics Group and the Economic Planning Agency in Japan. He is a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow at the Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development, and a member of the Steering Group of the International Growth Center in London.

For more information, visit Professor Hsieh's profile at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

Young-Kee Kim

Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Physics
Enrico Fermi Institute
The College

5640 S. Ellis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-7006

ykkim@hep.uchicago.edu

Professor Kim does research on particle physics to understand how the universe works at the most fundamental level by discovering and understanding the fundamental constituents (elementary particles) and the forces acting among them and on accelerator physics to design and build much more powerful accelerators for future particle physics and other sciences.

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

Jonathan Lio

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health

5841 S. Maryland Ave.
MC 5000
Chicago, IL 60637

jlio@bsd.uchicago.edu

Dr. Lio’s academic interests fall in the area of postgraduate medical education in China. Specific interests include the development of competencies for medical trainees, workplace-based assessment, and faculty development in teaching skills. Dr. Lio spends part of the year in Wuhan, China working with the Wuhan University Medical Education Reform (WUMER) Project as co-program director of residency reform. He has worked with Wuhan University to develop a physician competency framework and implement a milestones-based assessment system for residents.

For more information, visit Dr. Lio's profile at the University of Chicago's Department of Medicine. 

Or Porath

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

orporath@uchicago.edu

Or Porath is a scholar of Buddhist studies with broad interests in East Asian religions, the history of gender and sexuality, and monasticism. Porath specializes in the religions of Japan, specifically the influential school of Tendai Buddhism, its doctrines and practices, and the intersection between the Buddhist worldviews and issues of gender and sexuality. His current book project, The Flower of Dharma Nature: Sexual Consecration and Empowerment in Medieval Japanese Buddhism, examines the "consecration of acolytes" (chigo kanjō), a sexual initiation that was doctrinally sanctioned in orthodox Buddhist teachings. Porath investigates in his work how male-male sexual acts were sanctified and grounded in Tendai doctrinal concepts, and the manner in which they shed light on the Buddhist assimilation of local forms of worship including Shinto.

He is the author of  “The Cosmology of Male-Male Love in Medieval Japan: Nyakudō no Kanjinchō and the Way of Youths,” in Journal of Religion in Japan (2015), and “Nasty Boys or Obedient Children? Childhood and Relative Autonomy in Medieval Japanese Pedagogical Texts,” in Child’s Play: Multi-sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan (2017). 

Olga V. Solovieva

Assistant Professor
Department of Comparative Literature

Wieboldt 412
1050 E. 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-4803

solovieva@uchicago.edu

Professor Solovieva works on Russo-Japanese cultural relations. Her current book project, The Russian Kurosawa, will offer a new historical and thematic perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese director Akira Kurosawa through a detailed discussion of the films he made on the basis of Russian sources. The book’s major goal is to show that Kurosawa’s Russian output deals with the most politically sensitive topics of postwar Japan. The book will challenge prevalent views of Akira Kurosawa as an apolitical art house director or a conformist studio filmmaker by offering a much more complicated picture of the director’s participation in the post-war cultural and political debate.

Olga V. Solovieva’s book on Russian-Japanese intellectual relations Japan’s Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm, co-edited with historian of modern Japan Sho Konishi, is forthcoming from Cambria Press in Fall 2020. She also teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Russian-Japanese intellectual relations, for example, “Kurosawa and his Russian Sources,” and “Russian Anarchists, Revolutionary Samurai: Introduction to Russian-Japanese Intellectual Relations.” Her articles on Kurosawa's Russian films appeared in the Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema and were reprinted in Chinese in Zhongguo xueshu (China Scholarship). She also wrote on Russian and Japanese nuclear experience in “Chernobyl, the Unheard Prayer: Svetlana Aleksievich and the Little Voices of Fukushima,” boundary 2, 45:4 (2018): 223-241, and most recently on the reflection of the Japanese nuclear experience in Japanese cinema. Her article “Horror Old and New: Nakata Hideo’s Ringu (1998) between J-Horror and Hibakusha Cinema,“ is forthcoming in A Companion to Japanese Cinema, ed. David Desser, New York: Wiley-Blackwell.  For more information, please visit her faculty page.

Grace Tsiang

Senior Lecturer
Department of Economics

1126 E 59th St
Rosenwald 229A
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-3410

gtsiang@uchicago.edu

Professor Tsiang studies labor economics and the dynamics of spatial wage distributions. For more information, visit her page at the University of Chicago's Department of Economics.

John E. Woods

Professor of Iranian and Central Asian History
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The College

Pick Hall 328
5828 S. University Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-8343

j-woods@uchicago.edu

Professor Woods focuses primarily on the history of Turkey, Iran, and Central Asia from the thirteenth to eighteenth century. He is particularly interested in aspects of the encounter of sedentary and nomadic people in those regions during that time period. He is at present working on several projects dealing with the age of Chinggis Khan and Timur (Tamerlane). He has played a central role in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies since 1980. For more information, please visit his faculty page.