Faculty

Arthur Kleinman

kleinman@wjh.harvard.edu

on leave

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 society. Global mental health; social medicine; medical humanities; social suffering; caregiving; China and Asia broadly...

Paulina Kolata

pkolata@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Paulina Kolata is an interdisciplinary scholar of religion in Japan, specifically Buddhism, with an interest in demographic transformations, materiality, religious economies, and ecologies of religious practice. Her other research interests include food...

Daniel Koss

koss@fas.harvard.edu

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 authoritarianism through the case of the Chinese Communist Party. Asking why the Chinese state is "stronger"...

Shigehisa Kuriyama

hkuriyam@fas.harvard.edu

EALC: Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History

Research Interests: comparative cultural history; history of medicine and science.

Ya-Wen Lei

yawenlei@fas.harvard.edu

Department of Sociology: Professor of Sociology

Research interests : Political sociology, law and society, economic sociology, sociology of media and information technologies, sociology of work, labor and labor movements, science and technology studies, development, and Chinese studies

Jie Li

jieli@fas.harvard.edu

EALC: Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Research interests: Chinese literary, media and cultural studies. Cinematic representations of modern East Asian history, cultural memories of the Maoist Era, cinema under Japanese colonization, and contemporary Chinese films.

Wai-yee Li

wyli@fas.harvard.edu

EALC: Professor of Chinese Literature

Research Interests: Chinese literature from early Chinese thought and narrative to late imperial Chinese literature and culture.

Yukio Lippit

lippit@fas.harvard.edu

Dept. of History of Art and Architecture: Professor of History of Art and Architecture - Japanese Art

Research Interests: Japanese painting and calligraphy, Sino-Japanese artistic exchange, history of Japanese architecture.

Felicity Lufkin

lufkin@fas.harvard.edu

FAS Committee on Degrees in Folklore & Mythology: Lecturer on Folklore and Mythology

Research Interests: modern Chinese art; folk art, popular art, and crafts; art and gender; exhibitions.

Melissa McCormick

mccorm@fas.harvard.edu

EALC: Professor of Japanese Art and Culture

Harvard College Professor

Research Interests: pre-modern Japanese art; medieval painting, literature, and history; court culture.

Ian J. Miller

ian_miller@harvard.edu

Dept of History: Professor of History

Chair, Program in History and East Asian Languages (HEAL)

Research Interests: 19 th and 20 th century Japan, especially cultural and environmental history; comparative imperialism; history of exhibition; history of public health and medicine

Rana Mitter

ranamitter@hks.harvard.edu

S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School

Rana Mitter is ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of several books, including Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II (2013) which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, and was...