People

Karen Thornber

Interim Chair of the Committee on Regional Studies: East Asia
Harry Levin Professor in Literature and Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Research Interests: Comparative literature, world literature, and the literatures and cultures of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan),...

Ryuichi Abe

EALC: Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions

Research Interests: Buddhism and Japanese history, literature and culture.

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 130B

rabe@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-4305

William P. Alford

Law School: Director, East Asian Legal Studies
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law

Research interests: Chinese law and legal history; legal aspects of international trade and technology transfer.

Austin Hall, Room 309

alford@law.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-4693

David Anderson

(he/him/his)

Middlebury College, A.B., Japanese Studies and Political Science, 2020

Japan and China: US Foreign Policy in the Far East; U.S.-Japan Security Pact (Anpo); Sino-Japanese Relations; Russo-Japanese Relations;... Read more about David Anderson

danderson@g.harvard.edu

David Atherton

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Research interests: Japanese literature and culture, popular fiction and theater; literature of early modern (Edo or Tokugawa) period.

Website: David Atherton EALC Faculty

2 Divinity Avenue, room 229

datherton@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-8374

Junyoung Baik

(he/him/his)

University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in History and a Minor in Chinese, 2022

Korea: Premodern Korean history: Imjin War, wartime captivity, popular experiences of war, perceptions of Japan;... Read more about Junyoung Baik

jub831@g.harvard.edu

Peter K Bol

EALC: Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

(On Leave Fall 2022)

Research Interests: the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from...

Mary C. Brinton

Dept of Sociology: Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology
Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Research interests: gender stratification, labor market organization, education, economic sociology, and Japanese society.

William James Hall, Room 580

brinton@wjh.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-5821

Suna Cha

(she/her/hers)

Georgetown University, B.A. English and Art History, 2021

Korea: modern and contemporary Korean art, film, and visual culture; Japanese colonialism in Korea; women and gender;... Read more about Suna Cha

sunacha@fas.harvard.edu

Gunn Chaiyapatranun

(he/him/his)

Carnegie Mellon University, B.Arch., Minors in Architectural History and Japanese Studies, 2019

Japan: History of Premodern Japanese Architecture; Cultural, religious, and ideological exchanges between Japan and the Asian continent... Read more about Gunn Chaiyapatranun

gchaiyapatranun@g.harvard.edu