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This is a listing of Faculty and Advisors within the many schools at Harvard who have a research interest and may teach in the area of East Asia. As new faculty with an interest in East Asia join Harvard this list will be updated.

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Alexander Zahlten
Chair, Committee on Regional Studies East Asia
EALC: Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Research Interests: Film and media in Japan; media ecologies in East Asia.
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Ryuichi Abe
On leave AY2025-26
EALC: Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions
Research Interests: Buddhism and Japanese history, literature and culture.
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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.
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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.
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Peter K Bol
On leave Fall 2026
EALC: Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Research Interests: the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7 th to the 17 th century.
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Chan Yong Bu
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Chan Yong Bu’s research focuses on the entanglements of the body, science, and technology within media culture as crucial sites for human-nonhuman relations. In particular, Chan Yong works on industrial media in South and North Korea, media spectacles in...
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Mark Caprio
Kim Koo Visiting Professor of Korean Studies, AY2025-2026
Mark E. Caprio is professor emeritus at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910—1945 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009) . Additionally, he has co-edited a number of volumes...
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Edward Cunningham
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
Director of Ash Center China Programs at HKS
Director of the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative at HKS
Research interests: Energy markets and governance, international economics and competitiveness, the political economy of development, and China’s integration into the world, including the rise of Chinese private wealth and philanthropy.
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Christina Davis
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics
Director of the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University
Research interests and teaching bridge international relations and comparative politics, with a focus on trade policy. Interests include the politics and foreign policy of Japan, East Asia, and the European Union as well as the study of international...
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Nara Dillon
Senior Lecturer on Government
Research Interests: globalization, social policy, poverty; politics of welfare, charity, and health care in China and the developing world.
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Grzegorz Ekiert
Government: Laurance A. Tisch Professor of Government
Director of Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Senior Scholar at Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Research interests focus on comparative politics, regime change and democratization, civil society and social movements and East European politics and societies. Current projects explore civil society development in new democracies in Central Europe and...
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Mark C. Elliot
EALC: Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History
Vice Provost for International Affairs
Research interests: Social, political and institutional history of China and Inner Asia
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