Faculty

Arunabh Ghosh

Department of History: Associate Professor of History

Research Interests: Modern China, with research and teaching interests that span the social, economic, and intellectual histories of twentieth...

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Andrew Gordon

Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History

Andrew Gordon’s teaching and research focus primarily on modern Japan but he has also taught Japan’s premodern history and courses on comparative...

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Janet Gyatso

Divinity School: Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies

Research Interests: Buddhist history, ritual, and ideas; South Asian cultural and intellectual history, with a focus on Tibetan literature...

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Helen Hardacre

EALC: Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society

Research Interests: Japanese religious history

1730 Cambridge Street, Room S239

hardacre@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 496-5844

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Nicholas Harkness

Dept. of Anthropology: Professor
Director, Korea Institute

Research Interests: Language and communication, music, and semiotics; urban anthropology; anthropology of...

David Howell

EALC: Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History
Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Research Interests: Early modern Japanese history.

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 222

dhowell@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-8367

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C.-T. James Huang

Department of Linguistics: Professor of Linguistics

Research interests: syntactic theory; syntactic-semantics interface; Chinese linguistics.

Boylston Hall, Room 307

ctjhuang@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 384-7843

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Wesley M. Jacobson

EALC: Professor of the Practice of the Japanese Language
Director of the Japanese Language Program

Research Interests: Japanese language and linguistics.

5 Bryant Street, Room 203

jacobsen@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-2982

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Alastair Iain Johnston

Government Department: Governor James Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs

Research interests: International relations theory; East Asian international relations; Chinese foreign policy.

1737 Cambridge Street, Room K238

johnston@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 496-3965

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Thomas P Kelly

EALC: Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Research interests: Late imperial Chinese literature: the interplay between the literary imagination and Chinese visual and material cultures in...

Jinah Kim

Department of History of Art and Architecture: George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art

Research interests: South and Southeast Asian Art: text-image relationships, art and politics, female representations and patronage, issues...

Sun Joo Kim

EALC: Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History

(On Leave Spring and Fall 2023)

Research Interests: Korean history; social and cultural history of Chosŏn Korea...

William C. Kirby

Department of History: T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies
Harvard Business School: Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration
Chairman, Harvard China Fund

Research interests: modern Chinese political and economic history; history of the Republic of China and of the People’s Republic of...

Arthur Kleinman

Dept. of Anthropology: Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology
Harvard Medical School: Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine

Research interests: Medical anthropology, study of illness, health care and moral experience in the social transformation of Chinese...

Daniel Koss

Research Scholar and Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Daniel Koss studies political parties in East Asian politics. His first book, published in 2018, investigates the role of political parties under...

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Faculty

Arunabh Ghosh

Andrew Gordon

Janet Gyatso

Helen Hardacre

Nicholas Harkness

David Howell

C.-T. James Huang

Wesley M. Jacobson

Alastair Iain Johnston

Thomas P Kelly

Jinah Kim

Sun Joo Kim

William C. Kirby

Arthur Kleinman

Daniel Koss

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