Faculty

Faculty Information

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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Danica Truscott

dtruscott@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on Classical Japanese (Bungo) and Kanbun

Danica Truscott is a scholar of premodern Japanese literature who specializes in works from the early and classical periods (710-1185). She received her Ph.D. in 2022 from UCLA’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. Dr. Truscott also holds an A.M...

Leonard van der Kuijp

vanderk@fas.harvard.edu

Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies

Chair, Committee on Inner Asia and Altaic Studies

Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp is Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and chairs the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. Best known for his studies of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist thought, he is the author of numerous works. Recent publications...

Eugene Wang

eywang@fas.harvard.edu

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Founding director of the Harvard FAS CAMLab (Chinese Art Media Lab)

Research interests: Chinese art history from early to modern periods; Buddhist art; cognitive-affective visual theory and practice, experiential design.

David Der-Wei Wang

dwang@fas.harvard.edu

EALC: Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature

Research Interests: Chinese fiction of the late imperial and early modern period; the literary implications of the May Fourth Movement

Yuhua Wang

yuhuawang@fas.harvard.edu

Dept. of Government: Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government

Academic interests: State building; historical political economy; repression; corruption; Chinese politics

Moira Weigel

weigel@fas.harvard.edu

on leave AY2026-27

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Topics: Digital China, Film and Media, Science and Technology Moira Weigel is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Comparative Literature and a Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at...

Matthew Wild

mwild@fas.harvard.edu

Preceptor in Literary Sinitic

Matthew Wild is a scholar of Chinese literature whose research focuses on classical poetry, with special interests in print culture, performance, traditional literary criticism, and the history of textual scholarship. His current book manuscript Singing...

Mark Wu

mwu@law.harvard.edu

Harvard Law School: Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law

Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School

Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Research interests: International trade law, including issues concerning emerging economies, digital trade, intellectual property, trade remedies, environment, and investment.