Faculty Members of CEAS

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Yukiko Asai

Assistant Instructional Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy

Office: Room 3063

yasai@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Labor Economics, Personnel Economics, The effects of family leave and child care policies

Yukiko Asai is an Assistant Instructional Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy. Prior to joining Harris, Yukiko was a Junior Researcher (A...

Rachel Hyeryeong Bahng

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

Office: 1010 E 59th St Classics 417 Chicago, IL 60637

rhbahng@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Korean language pedagogy, Second language acquisition, Foreign Language Instruction and Curriculum

Michael Bourdaghs

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

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

Phone: (773) 834-1710

mbourdaghs@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Modern Japanese literature, culture, and intellectual history; popular music; literary and critical theory

Professor Bourdaghs focuses on Japanese literature and cultural history, including Japanese popular music. He also explores the connection between lit...

Susan L. Burns

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

Office: 1126 E. 59th St. Social Sciences 221 Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 702-8934

slburns@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Early modern and modern Japanese history, late Tokugawa intellectual and cultural history, medicine and public health, gender

Professor Burns focuses on 19th-century Japanese history, specifically the period between the Tokugawa era and the end of the Meiji period, and also t...

Kyeong-Hee Choi

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

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

Phone: (773) 834-1707

kchoi@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Relationship between the culture of publication and the historical experiences of modern Koreans, including the experiences of Japanese colonial rule, national division, the Korean War, the Cold War, and democratization.

Professor Choi's research analyzes the effects of Japanese imperial rule on the citizens of Korea, and the complex processes of democratization that t...

Julie Y. Chu

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College; Associated Faculty, Divinity School

Office: 1126 E 59th St Haskell 207 Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 702-7708

juliechu@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Sociocultural anthropology; globalization and transnational processes; mobility and migration; economy and value; ritual life; material culture; media and technology; state regulatory regimes; China.

Professor Chu is a social anthropologist who specializes in the economic effects of industrialization on Chinese culture. She also does ethnographic f...

Paul Copp

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

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

Phone: (773) 834-1689

pcopp@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Intellectual, material, and visual cultures of China and eastern Central Asia, ca. 700-1200 (or so); What should a Humanities education be, today?

Professor Copp is a historian focusing on the material sources of Chinese religion from the eighth through the twelfth centuries. He also publishes on...

Yuting Dong

Assistant Professor of East Asian History and the College

Office: Harper East Tower 687

Phone: (773) 834-4863

yutingdong@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Japanese history, colonialism, history of labor and expertise, and environmental history

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...

Jacob Eyferth

Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, History, and the College

Office: The University of Chicago Department of History 1050 E. 59th Street Wieboldt Hall, room 301 Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 834-1677

eyferth@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Social and cultural history of twentieth-century China, in particular rural China; history of work, technology, gender, and everyday life.

Professor Eyferth is a historian specializing in the non-elite peoples of China during the twentieth century, particularly the effects of industrializ...

Michael Fisch

Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College

Office: 5836 S Greenwood Ave Haskell M136 Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 702-2128

mfisch@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Technology/nature/culture; cybernetic ontologies; infrastructure and design; Japan anthropology; biomimicry; experimental ecologies; urban theory.

Professor Fisch's research focuses on the effects of technology, nature, and culture on Japanese society. He is currently developing a project that ex...

Ariel Fox

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Theater and Performance Studies

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

Phone: (773) 702-7030

arielfox@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Ming-Qing literature, especially vernacular fiction and drama; monetary history and the economic imaginary; late imperial practices of movement and dance

Professor Fox's work explores the intersection of literary and economic imaginaries in late imperial China. She is particularly interested in the ways...

Chelsea Foxwell

Director, Center for East Asian Studies; Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College

Office: 5540 S Greenwood Ave Cochrane-Woods Art Center 265 Chicago, IL 60637

Phone: (773) 702-7946

foxwell@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Japanese art history (19th and 20th centuries) and artistic interactions in East Asia