Xiaofei Tian

RSEA Chair
EALC: Professor of Chinese Literature

Her books include Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture (named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2006), Beacon Fire and

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

Theodore C. Bestor

Dept of Anthropology: Professor of Social Anthropology
Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Research interests: markets, globalization, and urban studies; economic institutions and exchange; food systems and food

Peter K Bol

EALC: Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Vice Provost for Advances in Learning

Research Interests: the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7^th to the 17^th century

Mary C. Brinton

Dept of Sociology: Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology

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

Paul Y. Chang

Dept. of Sociology: Assistant Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: South Korean social and political change.

608 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

paulchang@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617)-495-8769

Richard Cooper

Dept. of Economics: Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics

Research interests: international economics, including both international trade and

Edwin Cranston

On Leave 2017-2018
EALC: Professor of Japanese Literature

Research Interests: China Biographical Database Project

Nara Dillon

EALC: Lecturer on Social Studies

Research Interests: politics of welfare, charity, and health care in China and the rest of the developing world.

2 Divinity Ave. #230

ndillon@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-8366

Carter Eckert

EALC: Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History
Director of the Korea Institute

Research Interests: rise of Korean militarism, and its impact on South Korean state and society under Park Chung Hee; changes and continuities

Mark C. Elliot

EALC: Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History
Vice Provost for International Affairs

2 Divinity Ave. #134A

elliott3@fas.harvard.edu

Rowan K. Flad

Dept. of Anthropology: John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology

Research interests: Chinese archaeology; emergence and persistence of complex societies in the Sichuan Basin; specialization; zoo

Arunabh Ghosh

On Leave 2017-2018
Assistant Professor of History

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

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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