Faculty Members of CEAS

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Stephan Licha

Assistant Professor, Divinity School

Office: 300D

licha@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Buddhism, East Asia

Professor Licha comes from the Department of Japanese Studies at the University of Heidelberg. He received his PhD from SOAS (London) in 2012. Prof. L...

Wei-Cheng Lin

Associate Professor of Chinese Art and Architecture, Department of Art History and the College

Office: 268 Cochrane Woods Art Center 5540 S Greenwood Ave. Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 702-0268

wlin@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Visual and material cultural issues in Buddhist art and architecture and China’s funerary practice through history

Professor Lin specializes in the history of Chinese art and architecture, with a focus on medieval periods. His primary interests in research are visu...

Hoyt Long

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

Office: 1050 E 59th St Wieboldt 301C Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 834-1868

hoytlong@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Modern Japan, with specific interests in the history of media and communication, cultural analytics, sociology of literature, book history, and environmental history.

Professor Long's research and teaching interests include modern Japanese literature, regional and subnational literatures, publishing history, environ...

Zhaotian Luo

Assistant Professor Department of Political Science

Office: Pick Hall Room 528 5828 S. University Ave. Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 702-2941

luozhaotian@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Political economy of institutions, Information manipulation, and Formal theory

Professor Luo is a formal theorist with a broad substantive interest in political institutions and political economy of non-democracies. He specialize...

Zhiying Ma

Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Office: 969 E. 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Office: BE1

Phone: (773) 702-5719

zhiyingma@uchicago.edu

Interests:

China, Disability Rights and Justice, Global Health, and International Mental Health

Professor Ma currently teaches at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist an...

Won-Kyung Na

Associate Instructional Professor in Korean Language Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization

Office: CI 417

Phone: (773) 834-4683

wkna@uchicago.edu

Interests:

East Asian linguistics, discourse analysis, Korean language pedagogy

Takeaki Okamoto

Assistant Instructional Professor in Japanese Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Office: Wieboldt 301M

okamoto1@uchicago.edu

Kenneth Pomeranz

University Professor of Modern Chinese History and the College

Office: 1126 E 59th St Social Sciences 218 Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 834-4247

kpomeranz1@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Reciprocal influences of state, society, and economy in late Imperial and twentieth-century China; the origins of a world economy as the outcome of mutual influences among various regions; environmental history in China; comparative studies of labor, family organization, and economic change in Europe and East Asia; expansion of China to its present frontiers

Professor Pomeranz's work focuses mostly on China, though he is also very interested in comparative and world history, particularly long-term global e...

Johanna Ransmeier

Associate Professor, Department of History, the College, and East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Co-Chair of the faculty board of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights

Office: 1126 E. 59th Street Social Science Research Building Room 219 Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 834-2014

jsransmeier@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Modern China; Chinese legal history; crime; history of the family; comparative unfreedoms

Professor Ransmeier researches local practices revealed in police and judicial records and the intersection of law and family life in modern China. Cu...

Haun Saussy

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

Office: Wieboldt 412

Phone: (773) 702-4803

hsaussy@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Classical Chinese poetry and commentary, literary theory, comparative study of oral traditions, problems of translation, pre-twentieth-century media history, and ethnography and ethics of medical care

Professor Saussy's primary teaching and research interests include classical Chinese poetry and commentary, literary theory, comparative study of oral...

Edward Shaughnessy

Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in Early Chinese Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Office: 1050 E 59th St Wieboldt 409B Chicago, IL, 60637

Phone: (773) 702-5801

eshaughn@uchicago.edu

Professor Shaughnessy is a renowned scholar of ancient China who studies China's archaeologically recovered texts as well as the literary traditions i...

Laura Skosey

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

Office: 1050 E 59th St Wieboldt 301 Chicago, IL, 60637

Phone: (773) 702-1255

skoseyla@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Early Chinese legal history and culture, classical Chinese, and early Chinese culture history.