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

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

Theodore C. Bestor

Dept of Anthropology: Professor of Social Anthropology

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

Peter K Bol

EALC: Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
On leave 2018-19

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

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

Paul Y. Chang

Dept. of Sociology: Associate Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: South Korean social and political change. Social movements, family, Korean studies.

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

EALC: Professor of Japanese Literature

Research Interests: Japanese literature and poetry. China Biographical Database Project

2 Divinity Ave. #232

cranston@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-8362

Nara Dillon

EALC: Senior Lecturer on Government

Research Interests: globalization, social policy, povery; politics of welfare, charity, and health care in China and 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
Acting Chair (Fall 2018), Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

On leave Spring 2019

Research interests: Social, political and institutional history of China and Inner Asia

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

Department of History: Assistant 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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