Center for East Asian Studies

Director

• Chelsea Foxwell

Associate Director

• Abbey Newman

Assistant Director of Programming

• Connie Yip

Outreach Coordinator

• Myra Su

Center Administrator

• Hyeonjin Schubert

Faculty

• Michael Bourdaghs - East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Susan Burns - History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Kyeong-Hee Choi - East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Julie Chu - Anthropology and Divinity School
• Paul Copp - East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Yuting Dong - History
• Jacob Eyferth - East Asian Languages and Civilizations and History
• Michael Fisch - Anthropology
• Ariel Fox - East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Theater and Performance Studies
• Chelsea Foxwell - Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations 
• Donald Harper - East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Paola Iovene - East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Thomas Lamarre - Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Yung-ti Li - East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Stephan Licha - Divinity School
• Wei-Cheng Lin - Art History
• Hoyt Long - East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Zhaotian Luo - Political Science
• Zhiying Ma - Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
• Kenneth Pomeranz - History
• Johanna Ransmeier - History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Haun Saussy - East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Committee on Social Thought
• Edward Louis Shaughnessy - East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Melissa Van Wyk - East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Shaoda Wang - Harris School of Public Policy
• Hung Wu - Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
• Ming Xiang - Linguistics
• Kazuo Yamaguchi - Sociology
• Dali Yang - Political Science
• Alice Yao - Anthropology
• Alan Yu - Linguistics
• Judith Zeitlin - East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Theater and Performance Studies
• Brook Ziporyn - Divinity School

Affiliated Faculty

• Kagan Arik - Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
• Matthew Briones - History
• Robert Chaskin - Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
• Yoonsun Choi - Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
• Thomas Ginsburg - Law School
• Susan Goldin-Meadow - Psychology and Human Development
• Angie Heo - Divinity School
• Dwight Hopkins - Divinity School
• Chang-Tai Hsieh - Booth School of Business
• Woowon Kang - Physics
• Young-Kee Kim - Physics
• Jonathan Lio - Medicine
• Jiwoong Park - Chemistry
• Richard Payne - History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
• Mee-ju Ro - English Language and Literature
• Raaj Kumar Sah - Harris School of Public Policy
• Thomas Talhelm - Booth School of Business
• Yōu Wáng - Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, College
• Christian K. Wedemeyer - Divinity School
• Chun-Su Yuan - Anesthesia and Critical Care, Pritzker School of Medicine

Senior Lecturers

• Jieun Kim - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Korean Language
• Jun Yang - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Chinese Language

Lecturers

• Youjung Sul Shin - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Korean Language
• Laura Skosey - East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Instructional Professors

• Yukiko Asai - Harris School of Public Policy
• Rachel Bahng - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Korean Language
• Caterina Fugazzola - Global Studies
• Miku Fukasaku - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Japanese Language
• Yoko Katagiri - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Japanese Language
• Tomoko Kern - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Japanese Language
• Bitsol Kim - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Korean Language
• Yi-Lu Kuo - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Chinese Language
• Valarie Levan - Humanities
• Meng Li - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Chinese Language
• Won Kyung Na - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Korean Language
• Takeaki Okamoto - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Japanese Language
• Xiaorong Wang - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Chinese Language
• Shan Xiang - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Chinese Language
• Yujia Ye - East Asian Languages and Civilizations - Chinese Language

Instructors

• Eunhee Park - History
• Graeme R. Reynolds - History

Library Personnel

• Yao Chen, East Asian Collection, Director
• Shuo Liang, East Asian Collection, Chinese Studies Librarian
• Ayako Yoshimura, East Asian Collection, Japanese Studies Librarian

Professors Emeriti

• Guy Alitto
• George Chih-ch'ao Chao
• Bruce Cumings
• Judith B. Farquhar
• Norma Field
• James Hevia
• Christopher Hsee
• James Ketelaar
• William L. Parish
• George C. Tiao
• Ruey S. Tsay
• Dingxin Zhao

The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) endeavors to broaden the East Asian focus in interdisciplinary scholarship for which UChicago is famous by supporting a wide range of events, graduate fellowships, and faculty research initiatives. Our activities support training in East Asian studies and languages across an array of disciplines and professional schools on campus. CEAS works to enhance opportunities available to scholars both in the United States and abroad, and to foster communication and interdisciplinary collaboration among the community of professors and students at UChicago and throughout the wider East Asian Studies community. To these ends, CEAS sponsors a variety of activities including conferences, graduate workshops, film screenings, cultural events, public lectures, and other programs that promote understanding of the cultures and societies of China, Japan and Korea. Our faculty and programs in East Asian Studies regularly achieve the highest rankings among peer institutions in the United States, making East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago an invaluable national resource and a focal point for East Asian Studies in the Midwest. CEAS has been designated a National Resource Center for East Asian Studies by the United States Department of Education.

For more information about graduate fellowships—including conference travel grants, pre-dissertation and dissertation research grants, and other offerings—visit our website https://ceas.uchicago.edu/graduate-funding.

In addition, the East Asian Film Library at CEAS is one of the largest such collections in North America, containing over 7,000 titles from China, Japan, and Korea. It is particularly strong in independent film, documentaries, WWII issues, LGBTQ in East Asia, anime, Korean dramas, and Chinese Opera. The Film Library is free for UChicago student, staff, or faculty use. For more information, please visit https://ceas.uchicago.edu/resources/ceas-film-library.

For more information about all of our initiatives and to sign up for our email lists and weekly e-Bulletin, please visit http://ceas.uchicago.edu. For any questions, please reach out to eastasia@uchicago.edu