Susan Burns

Professor
Department of History
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
The College
Director, Center for East Asian Studies

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.

Jacob Eyferth

Associate Professor in Chinese History
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Department of History
The College

1050 E 59th St
Wieboldt 301H
Chicago, IL, 60637
(773) 834-1677

Professor Eyferth is a historian specializing in the non-elite peoples of China during the twentieth century, particularly the effects of industrialization, collectivization, and revolution on the lives of Chinese women.

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

Guy Alitto

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

1126 E 59th St
Social Sciences 211
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-8390

Professor Alitto is a specialist of modern Chinese intellectual history, and has also done extensive work on Chinese cultural history as it pertains to rural and village communities.

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

Michael Bourdaghs

Robert S. Ingersoll 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.

Kyeong-Hee Choi

Associate Professor of Modern Korean Literature
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Chair, Committee on Korean Studies, CEAS

1050 E 59th St
Wieboldt 301B
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-1707

Professor Choi's research analyzes the effects of Japanese imperial rule on the citizens of Korea, and the complex processes of democratization that took place throughout the Cold War period.

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

Julie Y. Chu

Associate Professor of Anthropology and
Social Sciences in the college

1126 E 59th St
Haskell 207
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-7708

Professor Chu is a social anthropologist who specializes in the economic effects of industrialization on Chinese culture. She also does ethnographic fieldwork focusing on Chinese urbanization and migration patterns.

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

Paul Copp

Associate Professor in Chinese Religion and Thought
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

1050 E 59th St
Wieboldt 301G
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-1689

Professor Copp is an historian focusing on the material sources of Chinese religion from the eighth through the twelfth centuries. He also publishes on Chinese religion and philosophy, with and eye towards paleology.

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

Bruce Cumings

Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor
Department of History
The College

1116 E 59th St
HM E 682
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-1818

Professor Cumings is a specialist in twentieth century Korean history, and writes on contemporary international affairs. He is also the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Korea.

For more information, visit Professor Cumings' profile at the University of Chicago's Department of History, or his page at The Nation magazine's website, where you can see his commentary on contemporary affairs.

Yuting Dong

Postdoctoral Researcher
Transitions to Assistant
Professor 2023-2024

Professor Yuting Dong (Assistant Professor beginning July 1, 2023) 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.

Ariel Fox

Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

1050 E 59th St
Wieboldt 301-J
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-7030

Professor Fox's work explores the intersection of literary and economic imaginaries in late imperial China. She is particularly interested in the ways in which literary genres helped late imperial audiences understand and negotiate an emergent global economy.

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

Chelsea Foxwell

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.

 

Donald Harper

Centennial Professor of Chinese Studies and Chair,
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

1050 E 59th St.
Wieboldt 124
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-8533

Professor Harper studies early Chinese civilization, the history of science, philosophy, and religion. He is also a member of the Creel Center for Chinese Paleography.

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

Zhiguo He

Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Finance and Jeuck Faculty Fellow

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834 3769

Professor He is interested in the implications of agency frictions and debt maturities in financial markets and macroeconomics with a special focus on contract theory and banking. His recent research focuses on the role of financial institutions in the 2007/08 global financial crisis. He teaches an elective MBA course, “Chinese Economy and Financial Markets,” and is conducting academic research on Chinese financial markets including the stock market, local government debt, shadow banking, and interbank markets together with recent regulation changes. Professor He has also been writing academic articles on new progress in the area of cryptocurrency and blockchains.

For more information, visit Professor Zhiguo He's profile at the Univerity of Chicago Booth School of Business

Christopher Hsee

Theodore O. Yntema Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing
Booth School of Business

5807 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-7728

Professor Hsee specializes in social factors affecting the decision-making habits of consumers.

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

Paola Iovene

Associate Professor in Chinese Literature
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

1050 E 59th St
Wieboldt 301K
Chicago, IL, 60615
(773) 834-1847

Professor Iovene's work focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century Chinese literature and film. Her areas of research include contemporary Chinese fiction and criticism; popular science; conceptions of Chinese realism, modernism, and avant-garde; the translation of foreign literature in socialist China; narrative temporality in fiction and film; late 1940s cinema; opera film; and post-1989 Chinese independent documentary film.

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

Jieun Kim

Korean Language Program Director
Senior Lecturer in Korean Language
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

1010 E 59th St
Classics 417
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-4683

Professor Kim is the Director of the Korean Language Program and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Yi-Lu Kuo

Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

5845 S Ellis Ave
Gates-Blake 231
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-2110

Yi-Lu Kuo is an Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese language at the University of Chicago's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Thomas Lamarre

Gordon J Laing Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies,
East Asian Languages and Civilizations,
The College

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.

Yungti Li

Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

1050 E 59th St
Wieboldt 301-I
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-4521

Professor Li’s research focuses on the archaeology of Bronze Age China; craft specialization and production, with a specialization on bronze casting technology; and the rise of social complexity, regional interaction, and state formation in ancient China. His current work encompasses the study of state-sponsored bronze production at Houma of the Eastern Zhou period, as well as the research and writing of “Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Part 14: Non-Ferrous Metallurgy,” for the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, England. 

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

Wei-Cheng Lin

Associate Professor
Department of Art History
The College

268 Cochrane Woods Art Center
5540 S Greenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
773-702-0268

Professor Lin specializes in the history of Chinese art and architecture, with a focus on medieval periods. His primary interests in research are visual and material cultural issues in Buddhist art and architecture and China’s funerary practice through history.

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

Hoyt Long

Associate Professor of Japanese Literature
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

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.

Zhaotian Luo

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science

Pick Hall Room 528
5828 S. University Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-2941

Professor Luo is a formal theorist with a broad substantive interest in political institutions and political economy of non-democracies. He specializes in developing and applying game theoretic models to explain interactions among political actors as well as the foundations and performance of political institutions. His current research centers on the role of information in politics. 

For more information, visit Professor Luo's profile at the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science.

Zhiying Ma

Assistant Professor
Social Service Administration

969 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Professor Ma currently teaches at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist and a scholar of disability studies. Her work in general examines how cultural, politico-economic, and technological factors shape the design and implementation of social policies, and how national policies and global development initiatives in turn impact health in/equity, vulnerability, and rights, with a focus on contemporary China.

For more information, visit Professor Ma's profile at the University of Chicago's Social Service Administration. 

Kenneth Pomeranz

University Professor of Modern Chinese History
The College

1126 E 59th St
Social Sciences 218
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-4247

Professor Pomeranz's work focuses mostly on China, though he is also very interested in comparative and world history, particularly long-term global economic trends. Most of his research is in social, economic, and environmental history, though he has also worked on state formation, imperialism, religion, gender, and other topics. His publications include The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (2000), which won the John K. Fairbank Prize from the American Historical Association, and shared the World History Association book prize. 

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

Johanna Ransmeier

Associate Professor
Department of History
The College

1126 E. 59th Street
Social Science Research Building
Room 219
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-2014

Professor Ransmeier researches local practices revealed in police and judicial records and the intersection of law and family life in modern China. Currently, she is completing a book on the practice of selling people in North China during the Late Qing and Republican periods, the first such work to be devoted to the subject of slavery and human trafficking in China during this period. Her research efforts within China’s judicial archives have also led her to new areas of interest extending beyond trafficking cases.

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

Graeme R. Reynolds

Instructor in History

Graeme Reynolds is a cultural and intellectual historian of early modern Korea with interests in the production and circulation of knowledge, the history of the book, and historiography.

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

 

Haun Saussy

University Professor
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
and the Committee on Social Thought

1010 E 59th St
Classics 116
Chicago, IL, 60637
(773) 702-4803

Professor Saussy's primary teaching and research interests include classical Chinese poetry and commentary, literary theory, comparative study of oral traditions, problems of translation, pre-twentieth-century medi history, and ethnography and ethics of medical care.

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

Edward Shaughnessy

Lorraine J. & Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in Early Chinese Studies
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

1050 E 59th St
Wieboldt 409B
Chicago, IL, 60637
(773) 702-5801

Professor Shaughnessy is a renowned scholar of ancient China who studies China's archaeologically recovered texts as well as the literary traditions in which they were born. In his own work, Shaughnessy combines these areas of expertise, though when he teaches, he separates them, offering seminars on oracle-bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and bamboo-strip inscriptions, as well as classes on the Yi jing, Shi jing and Shang shu. His own personal interests include bronze inscriptions and the Zhou Yi, both of which reached their full maturity toward the end of the Western Zhou period (1045 to 771 B.C.E.).

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

Laura Skosey

Lecturer in Classical Chinese Language
Lecturer in Ancient Chinese Law
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Law School

1050 E 59th St
Wieboldt 301
Chicago, IL, 60637
(773) 702-1255

Professor Skosey is an Assistant Instructional Professor of Classical Chinese language and is a specialist of ancient Chinese law at the University of Chicago's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Katherine Tsiang

Associate Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia
Department of Art History

5540 S Greenwood Ave
Regenstein 420
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-1060

Professor Tsiang is the Associate Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia. Her research concentrates on the fields of Chinese Buddhist art, Chinese ceramics and material culture, and cultural interactions and political rhetoric in the production of art in medieval China. Her professional experience also includes teaching and collaborative work with museums and organizing exhibitions. For more information, visit Professor Tsiang's profile at the University of Chicago's Center for East Asian Art.

Melissa Van Wyk

Assistant Professor in Japanese Literature

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

Hung Wu

Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Art History
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
The College
Director, Center for the Art of East Asia
Consulting Curator, Smart Museum of Art

5540 S Greenwood Ave
CWAC 274
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-0274

Professor Wu focuses on early Chinese art and relationships between visual forms (architecture, bronze vessels, pictorial carvings and murals, etc.) and ritual, social memory, and political discourses. Professor Wu is also the Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia and a Consulting Curator for the Smart Museum of Art.

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

Ming Xiang

Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
The College

Rosenwald, 205B
1115 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-8023

Professor Xiang's research is geared towards better understanding the processing and neural mechanisms that support the rapid, real-time construction of sophisticated linguistic representations.  She primarily works on sentence processing, including syntax, semantics and discourse comprehension.

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

Shan Xiang

Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Gates Blake 230
5845 S Ellis Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-2107

Shan Xiang is an Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language at the University of Chicago's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

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.

Dali Yang

William Claude Reavis Professor
Department of Political Science
Senior Advisor to the President and Provost on Global Initiatives

5828 S University Ave
Pick 422A
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-8054

Professor Dali Yang is the founding faculty director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, a University-wide initiative to promote collaboration and exchange between UChicago scholars and students and their Chinese counterparts. He was previously chairman of political science, director of the Center for East Asian Studies and director of the Committee on International Relations, all at UChicago. He also is a former director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the politics of China’s development, particularly regulation, governance and state-society relations.

For more information, visit Professor Yang's profile at the university's Department of Political Science.

Jun Yang

Chinese Language Program Director
Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

1010 E 59th St
Classics 416
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 834-1713

Professor Yang is the Director of the Chinese language and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago's Department for East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

Alice Yao

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
The College

5836 S Greenwood
Haskell 318
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-8674

Professor Yao's research focuses on the impact of the Han Empire’s conquest of frontier regions and seeks to explain the variable ways different communities and social classes responded to momentous changes in local history. Currently she is conducting an archaeological survey project in southwestern China, which aims to recover the settlement sites of a local Bronze Age polity known as the Dian before its incorporation by the Han Empire. This ongoing project investigates the genesis of the Dian polity in relation to control over bronze production and the regional trade network developing between China and Southeast Asia.

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

Yujia Ye

Assistant Instructional Professor in Chinese Language
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

1050 E 59th St,
Wieboldt 301D
Chicago, IL 60637
773-702-0778

Yujia Ye is an Assistant Instructional Professor in Chinese language at the University of Chicago's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. 

Alan C.L. Yu

William Colvin Professor of Linguistics and the College

1115 E. 58th Street
Rosenwald 205F
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 627-6221

Professor Yu is the director of the Phonology Laboratory and the principal investigator of the Washo Documentation Project. His research and teaching interests include theoretical and experimental phonology, the interface between phonology and morphology, as well as issues concerning language variation and change, particularly in relation to the inception of sound change and its phonologization. His language areas of focus are North America and Asia.

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

Judith Zeitlin

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Theater and Performance Studies
The College
Chair, Committee on Chinese Studies, CEAS

1050 East 59th Street
Wieboldt 406
Chicago, IL, 60637
(773) 834-1990

Professor Zeitlin's publications include "Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale" and "Shared Dreams: The Story of the Three Wives' Commentary on The Peony Pavilion." She is currently working on a book on ghosts and the Chinese literary imagination, and her research interests also include gender and sexuality and the intersection of literature and medicine, particularly the case history.

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

Brook Ziporyn

Mircea Eliade Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought
Divinity School
The College

1025 E 58th St
Swift Hall 404
Chicago, IL 60637
(773) 702-8200

Professor Ziporyn is a scholar of ancient and medieval Chinese religion and philosophy who has distinguished himself as a premier expositor and translator of some of the most complex philosophical texts and concepts of the Chinese religious traditions. Ziporyn is the author of four published books, including Evil And/Or/As the Good: Omnicentric Holism, Intersubjectivity, and Value Paradox in Tiantai Buddhist Thought, The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang, and Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings with Selections from Traditional Commentaries.

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