Asia-Related Faculty

Asian Studies at Boston University has grown over the last two decades into one of the best and most comprehensive clusters of faculty and resources in New England. Over fifty full-time faculty and instructors focus on Asia across nearly all relevant fields and geographical areas, from East Asia all the way to Turkey.

Many of our faculty members are internationally renowned leaders in their fields, and all of our faculty members are enthusiastic teachers who offer an expansive set of courses.

Faculty by Last Name

Marié Abe marieabe@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology
Aanchal Aggarwal	Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant, Hindi-Urdu, Department of World Languages and Literatures
Kecia Ali ka@bu.edu	Professor of Religion (Islamic law; women and gender; ethics; and biography)
Betty Anderson banderso@bu.edu	Professor of History (History of the Middle East, social and intellectual history of the Arab world, history of education, and modern world history)
Qianshen Bai qbai@bu.edu	Associate Professor Emeritus of Asian and Chinese Art, Department of the History of Art and Architecture
Thomas Barfield barfield@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology (Social anthropology, political economy, anthropology and history, pastoral nomadism. Near East and Central Asia. Afghanistan)
Linda L. Barnes linda.barnes@bmc.org	Professor Departments of Family Medicine and Pediatrics Director, Boston Healing Landscape Project
Thomas Berger tuberger@bu.edu	Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
Rachel Brule rebrule@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
Tianyu Cao tycao@bu.edu	Professor of Philosophy Director of Undergraduate Advising, Department of Philosophy
Kee Chan \| Personal page keechan@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Health Sciences
Charles Chang	Associate Professor of Linguistics
Houchang Chehabi chehabi@bu.edu	Professor of International Relations and History (Middle Eastern politics and cultural history, international law)
Arianne Chernock chernock@bu.edu	Professor of History
Eunil David Cho eunilcho@bu.edu	Assistant Professor Spiritual Care and Counseling, School of Theology
Hee An Choi hchoi@bu.edu	Clinical Associate Professor of Practical Theology, Director of the Anna Howard Shaw Center
Jilene Chua jchua@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of History (socio-cultural legal history of US race and empire, focusing on the Philippines)
Jay Corrin jckuch@bu.edu	Professor, Social Sciences
Albert Dalia aadalia@bu.edu	Lecturer in the Writing Program
André de Quadros adq@bu.edu	Professor of Music
Shutan Dong shutand@bu.edu	Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Anne Donohue adonohue@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Journalism
David Eckel mdeckel@bu.edu	Professor of Religion (history of Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet, the relationship between Buddhism and other Indian religions, the expansion and adaptation of Buddhism in Asia and the West, Buddhist narrative traditions and their relationship to Buddhist ethics, and the connection between philosophical theory and religious practice)
Ricardo J. Elia elia@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Archaeology
Stephan Ellenwood ellenwoo@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Education
Anna Zielinska-Elliott aelliott@bu.edu	Master Lecturer in Japanese, Director, MFA in Literary Translation, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Yating Fan ytfan@bu.edu	Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Anne Anning Feng annefeng@bu.edu	Assistant Professor in Asian Art History
Joseph Fewsmith fewsmith@bu.edu	Professor of International Relations and Political Science
Sarah Frederick sfred@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Kevin Gallagher kpg@bu.edu	Professor of Global Development Policy; Director, Global Development Policy Center
Christopher J. Gill cgill@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Global Health, School of Public Health
June Grasso jgrasso@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Social Science
William Grimes wgrimes@bu.edu	Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; Professor of International Relations and Political Science
Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis etengrotenhuis@gmail.com	Professor Emerita, Japanese Art History
Lei GUO guolei@bu.edu	Associate Professor, Division of Emerging Media Studies, COM
Jan Haenraets janh@bu.edu	Professor of the Practice, Preservation Studies Program
Shahla Haeri shaeri@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology (Social/Cultural anthropology, gender, law, religion. Iran, Middle East, South Asia)
Nafisa Halim nhalim@bu.edu	Research Assistant Professor of Global Health, School of Public Health
Laura Harrington lharring@bu.edu	Professor of Religion, CORE, and Cinema & Media Studies (Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Asian Religions, Buddhist Art and Comparative Asian Medical Traditions)
Joseph Harris josephh@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Sociology
Robert Hefner rhefner@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology and International Relations; Director of the Center for the Study of Asia (Cultural theory, religion and modernity, political theory, political economy, democracy, Islam, Southeast Asia)
Brita Heimarck heimarck@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology
Jorge Heine	Research Professor, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies (IR scholar and diplomat with a special interest in the international politics of the Global South)
Esther T. Hu ethu@bu.edu	Lecturer, CAS Writing Program; Fellow, BU International History Institute
Rui Hua ruihua@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of History, Department of History
Liling Huang lilingh@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Weijia Huang huangwj@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
April Hughes adhughes@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Religion (medieval Chinese religion within broader cultural and social contexts, medieval Chinese Buddhist manuscripts and mural paintings at Dunhuang, northwest China)
Daryl Ireland dri@bu.edu	Research Assistant Professor of Misson; Associate Director of Center for Global Christianity & Mission
Satoru Ishikawa satorui@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages and Literatures
Karen Jacobs kjacobs@bu.edu	Program Director, On-line Post-professional Doctorate in Occupational Therapy, and Clinical Professor
Ha Jin xjin@bu.edu	Professor of English and in the Creative Writing Program
Miki Kaneda kaneda@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology
Jeffrey Karam jkaram@bu.edu	Lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Politics
Mahesh Karra mvkarra@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy
Nazli Kibria nkibria@bu.edu	Professor of Sociology, and Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
Jay Kim jkimjr@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Operations and Technology, Questrom School of Business
Jungsoo Kim kimjs@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Korean, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Cheryl Knott knott@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology (Orangutan behavior and biology, reproductive physiology of male and female orangutans, conservation)
Frank Korom korom@bu.edu	Professor of Religion and Anthropology (Folklore, religion, ritual and performance. South Asia, Caribbean, Tibet)
Sanjay Krishnan skrishn2@bu.edu	Professor of English
Heeju Lee heejulee@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Korean, Department of World Languages and Literatures
Jinmyung Lee jmlee22@bu.edu	Lecturer in Korean, Department of World Languages and Literatures
Meyongok Lee leelee@bu.edu	Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages and Literatures
Susan Lee susanlee@bu.edu	Master Lecturer of Social Science
Yoo Taek Lee ytlee@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer of Operations and Technology Management
Yair Lior yairlior@bu.edu	Lecturer on Religion (Chinese philosophy and religion with a focus on Song Dynasty intellectual history and Neo-Confucianism; comparative religion)
Petrus Liu petrusl@bu.edu	Associate Professor, Chinese and Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Diana Lobel dnlobel@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies (Classical and medieval Jewish studies; Comparative philosophy and religious thought)
Lindsey Locks lmlocks@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Global Health, School of Public Health
Noora Lori nlori@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of International Relations
Jeremy Menchik jmenchik@gmail.com	Associate Professor of International Relations; Director of CURA: The Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs
Eugenio Menegon emenegon@bu.edu	Associate Professor of History (Chinese-Western relations in late imperial times, Chinese religions and Christianity in China, Chinese science, intellectual history of Republican China, history of maritime Asia, Chinese food history)
Roberta Micallef micallef@bu.edu	Professor of the Practice in Turkish, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Manjari Chatterjee Miller manjarim@bu.edu	Associate Professor of International Relations
Hiromi Miyagi-Lusthaus hmiyagi@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Dilip Mookherjee dilipm@bu.edu	Professor of Economics; Director of the Institute for Economic Development
Canaan Morse crmorse@bu.edu	Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Rafique Mughal mughal@bu.edu	Professor Emeritus of Archaeology
Robert Murowchick remurow@bu.edu	Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer on Archaeology
Adil Najam anajam@bu.edu	Professor of International Relations and Earth & Environment, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
Amber Navarre navarrea@bu.edu	Master Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Robert Neville rneville@bu.edu	Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology Emeritus
Paul Newton paul@tropmedres.ac	Adjunct Professor of Global Health (Director of the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane, Laos; main research interests include the epidemiology and detection of substandard and falsified medical products and on the diversity of fevers, especially rickettsial pathogens, in rural Asia and their epidemiology and how they can be diagnosed and managed)
Etsuko Okita Snyder eokita@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer of Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Shilpa Parnami sparnami@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Hindi, Coordinator of the Hindi Language Program, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Simon Payaslian payas@bu.edu	Charles K. and Elizabeth M. Kenosian Professor of History (Armenian history)
Carrie J. Preston cjpresto@bu.edu	Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Professor and Director, Kilachand Honors College (modernist literature, performance, and dance, feminist and queer theory, and transnational and postcolonial studies)
Stephen R. Prothero prothero@bu.edu	Professor of Religion; C. Allyn and Elizabeth V. Russell Professor of Religion (Religion and culture in the United States)
Teena Purohit tpurohit@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Religion (South Asian religions with specialties in Muslim and Hindu devotional literature, religious identity formation, and modern Islam)
Ronald Richardson rrichard@bu.edu	Associate Professor of History (Japanese History; Black and Asian Cultural Encounter)
Takeo Rivera tekr@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of English (performance studies, ethnic studies, and queer theory in U.S. American cultural production)
Dana Robert drobdan@bu.edu	Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission; Director of Center for Global Christianity & Mission
Jaemin Roh jmroh@bu.edu	Master Lecturer in Korean, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Lora Sabin lsabin@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Global Health, School of Public Health (behavioral interventions and applied economics related to child health and welfare, HIV and AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases in Africa, Asia, and Latin America; TB-related stigma in India; knowledge and support improvements in continuing medical education among medical care providers (community-based health workers and HIV providers) in Vietnam; assessing the impact of real-time feedback to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive individuals in China)
Robert B. Saper Robert.saper@bmc.org	Professor, Department of Family Medicine; Director, Integrative Medicine
Jayita Sarkar jsarkar@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of International Relations
Sunil Sharma sharma@bu.edu	Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature, Convener of Hindi-Urdu, Persian; Director of the Global Medieval Studies Program, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Merav Shohet shohetm@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Anthropology (Psychological, medical, and linguistic anthropology; ethics, morality and subjectivity; narrative and language socialization; illness and recovery; gender, family and kinship; Vietnam and Southeast Asia; food and eating disorders; memory, ritual, and experience; Israel)
Benjamin Siegel siegelb@bu.edu	Associate Department Chair, and Associate Professor of History (Modern South Asia, environmental history, agricultural history, history of medicine and the body, history of economic lifeModern South Asia, environmental history, agricultural history, history of medicine and the body, history of economic life)
Nancy Smith-Hefner smhefner@bu.edu	Department Chair, and Professor of Anthropology (Anthropological linguistics, psychological anthropology, gender, Asians in America, anthropology and education; Southeast Asia)
Chris Chao Su suchao@bu.edu	Assistant Professor, Emerging Media Studies, COM
Hongyun Sun hysun@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Sassan Tabatabai stabat67@bu.edu	Master Lecturer in World Languages & Literatures and Core Curriculum, Department of World Languages and Literatures
Yumiko Tashiro ytashiro@bu.edu	Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Alice Tseng aytseng@bu.edu	Associate Dean of the Faculties in the Humanities, and Professor of Japanese Art and Architecture
Keith Vincent kvincent@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of World Languages and Literatures
Robert Weller rpweller@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology; Research Associate, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (Religion and ritual, environment, political change and civil life, anthropological theory, China and Taiwan)
Merry White corky@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology (Urban Japan; food studies; travel and tourism; family, elderly and social change in Japan; the cafe and social spaces in Japanese cities)
John Woodward, Jr. jdwjr@bu.edu	Professor of the Practice of International Relations
H. Denis Wu hdw@bu.edu	Professor of Communication
Dennis Wuerthner dwuerth@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of East Asian Literatures, Department of World Languages and Literatures
Emi Yamanaka yamanaka@bu.edu	Master Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Aimin Yan aimin@bu.edu	Professor/Faculty Director, IMP, Organizational Behavior Department
Mary Yang yangm@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Art, Graphic Design Program
Yoon Sun Yang yyoonsun@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Min Ye ye@bu.edu	Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Catherine Yeh yeh@bu.edu	Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, and Chair, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Peng Yin pengyin@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Ethics, School of Theology
Junga Yoo eliyoo@bu.edu	Lecturer in Korean, Department of World Languages & Literatures

Faculty by Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Anthropology

Thomas Barfield barfield@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology (Social anthropology, political economy, anthropology and history, pastoral nomadism. Near East and Central Asia. Afghanistan)
Shahla Haeri shaeri@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Anthropology (Social/Cultural anthropology, gender, law, religion. Iran, Middle East, South Asia)
Robert Hefner rhefner@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology and International Relations; Director of the Center for the Study of Asia (Cultural theory, religion and modernity, political theory, political economy, democracy, Islam, Southeast Asia)
Cheryl Knott knott@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology (Orangutan behavior and biology, reproductive physiology of male and female orangutans, conservation)
Frank Korom korom@bu.edu	Professor of Religion and Anthropology (Folklore, religion, ritual and performance. South Asia, Caribbean, Tibet)
Merav Shohet shohetm@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Anthropology (Psychological, medical, and linguistic anthropology; ethics, morality and subjectivity; narrative and language socialization; illness and recovery; gender, family and kinship; Vietnam and Southeast Asia; food and eating disorders; memory, ritual, and experience; Israel)
Nancy Smith-Hefner smhefner@bu.edu	Department Chair, and Professor of Anthropology (Anthropological linguistics, psychological anthropology, gender, Asians in America, anthropology and education; Southeast Asia)
Robert Weller rpweller@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology; Research Associate, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (Religion and ritual, environment, political change and civil life, anthropological theory, China and Taiwan)
Merry White corky@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology (Urban Japan; food studies; travel and tourism; family, elderly and social change in Japan; the cafe and social spaces in Japanese cities)

College of Arts and Sciences
Archaeology Program


Ricardo J. Elia elia@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Archaeology
Mohammad Mughal mughal@bu.edu	Professor Emeritus of Archaeology
Robert Murowchick remurow@bu.edu	Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer on Archaeology Director, AsianArc: The Asian Cultural Heritage Research Initiative (formerly the International Center for East Asian Archaeology and Cultural History, or ICEAACH)

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Economics

Dilip Mookherjee
dilipm@bu.edu

Director of the Institute for Economic Development;
Professor of Economics

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English

Ha Jin (Xuefei Jin) xjin@bu.edu	Professor of English and in the Creative Writing Program
Sanjay Krishnan skrishn2@bu.edu	Professor of English
Carrie J. Preston cjpresto@bu.edu	Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Professor and Director, Kilachand Honors College (modernist literature, performance, and dance, feminist and queer theory, and transnational and postcolonial studies)
Takeo Rivera tekr@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of English (performance studies, ethnic studies, and queer theory in U.S. American cultural production)

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of History

Betty Anderson banderso@bu.edu	Professor of History (History of the Middle East, social and intellectual history of the Arab world, history of education, and modern world history)
Houchang Chehabi chehabi@bu.edu	Professor of International Relations and History (Middle Eastern politics and cultural history, international law)
Arianne Chernock chernock@bu.edu	Associate Professor of History
Jilene Chua jchua@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of History (socio-cultural legal history of US race and empire, focusing on the Philippines)
Rui Hua ruihua@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of History
Eugenio Menegon emenegon@bu.edu	Associate Professor of History (Chinese-Western relations in late imperial times, Chinese religions and Christianity in China, Chinese science, intellectual history of Republican China, history of maritime Asia, Chinese food history)
Simon Payaslian payas@bu.edu	Charles K. and Elizabeth M. Kenosian Professor of History (Armenian history)
Ronald Richardson rrichard@bu.edu	Associate Professor of History (Japanese History; Black and Asian Cultural Encounter)
Benjamin Siegel siegelb@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of History (Modern South Asia, environmental history, agricultural history, history of medicine and the body, history of economic lifeModern South Asia, environmental history, agricultural history, history of medicine and the body, history of economic life)

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of History of Art and Architecture

Qianshen Bai qbai@bu.edu	Associate Professor Emeritus of Asian and Chinese Art
Anne Anning Feng annefeng@bu.edu	Assistant Professor in Asian Art History
Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis etengrotenhuis@gmail.com	Professor Emerita, Japanese Art History
Jan Haenraets janh@bu.edu	Professor of Practice, Preservation Studies Program
Alice Tseng aytseng@bu.edu	Dept. Chair, and Professor of Japanese Art and Architecture

College of Arts and Sciences
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
Division of International Studies

Thomas Berger tuberger@bu.edu	Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
Rachel Brule rebrule@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies (comparative politics, international development, political economy, and gender, with a geographical focus on South Asia)
Joseph Fewsmith fewsmith@bu.edu	Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
Kevin Gallagher kpg@bu.edu	Professor of Global Development Policy, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies;* Director, Global Development Policy Center*
William Grimes wgrimes@bu.edu	Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; Professor of International Relations and Political Science
Jorge Heine	Research Professor, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies (IR scholar and diplomat with a special interest in the international politics of the Global South)
Mahesh Karra mvkarra@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
Noora Lori nlori@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
Jeremy Menchik jmenchik@gmail.com	Associate Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; Director of CURA: The Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs
Manjari Chatterjee Miller manjarim@bu.edu	Associate Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
Adil Najam anajam@bu.edu	Professor of International Relations and Earth & Environment, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
Jayita Sarkar jsarkar@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
John Woodward, Jr. jdwjr@bu.edu	Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies
Min Ye ye@bu.edu	Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; Director of Undergraduate Studies

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Linguistics

Charles Chang

Associate Professor of Linguistics

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of World Languages & Literatures

Shutan Dong Shutand@bu.edu	Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Anna Zielinska-Elliott aelliott@bu.edu	Master Lecturer in Japanese, Director, MFA in Literary Translation, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Yating Fan ytfan@bu.edu	Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Sarah Frederick sfred@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature
Liling Huang lilingh@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Weijia Huang huangwj@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Satoru Ishikawa satorui@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Jungsoo Kim kimjs@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Korean, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Heeju Lee heejulee@bu.edu	Lecturer in Korean, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Meyongok Lee leelee@bu.edu	Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Petrus Liu petrusl@bu.edu	Associate Professor, Chinese and Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Roberta Micallef micallef@bu.edu	Professor of the Practice in Turkish, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Hiromi Miyagi-Lusthaus hmiyagi@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Canaan Morse crmorse@bu.edu	Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Amber Navarre navarrea@bu.edu	Master Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Etsuko Okita Snyder eokita@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Shilpa Parnami sparnami@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Hindi, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Jaemin Roh jmroh@bu.edu	Master Lecturer in Korean, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Sunil Sharma sharma@bu.edu	Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature, Convener of Comparative Literature, Hindi-Urdu, Persian; Director of the Global Medieval Studies Program, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Hongyun Sun hysun@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Sassan Tabatabai stabat67@bu.edu	Master Lecturer in World Languages & Literatures and Core Curriculum, Department of World Languages and Literatures
Yumiko Tashiro ytashiro@bu.edu	Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Keith Vincent kvincent@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Dennis Wuerthner dwuerth@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of East Asian Literatures, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Emi Yamanaka yamanaka@bu.edu	Master Lecturer in Japanese, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Yoon Sun Yang yyoonsun@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature, Convener of Korean, Department of World Languages & Literatures
Catherine Yeh yeh@bu.edu	Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, and Chair, Department of World Languages & Literatures

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Philosophy

Tianyu Cao tycao@bu.edu	Professor of Philosophy Director of Undergraduate Advising, Department of Philosophy
Robert Neville rneville@bu.edu	Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology Emeritus

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Religion

Kecia Ali ka@bu.edu	Professor of Religion (Islamic law; women and gender; ethics; and biography)
David Eckel mdeckel@bu.edu	Professor of Religion (history of Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet, the relationship between Buddhism and other Indian religions, the expansion and adaptation of Buddhism in Asia and the West, Buddhist narrative traditions and their relationship to Buddhist ethics, and the connection between philosophical theory and religious practice)
Laura Harrington lharring@bu.edu	Professor of Religion, CORE and Cinema & Media Studies (Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Asian Religions, Buddhist Art and Comparative Asian Medical Traditions)
April Hughes adhughes@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Religion (medieval Chinese religion within broader cultural and social contexts, medieval Chinese Buddhist manuscripts and mural paintings at Dunhuang, northwest China)
Frank Korom korom@bu.edu	Professor of Religion and Anthropology (Folklore, religion, ritual and performance. South Asia, Caribbean, Tibet)
Yair Lior yairlior@bu.edu	Lecturer on Religion (Chinese philosophy and religion with a focus on Song Dynasty intellectual history and Neo-Confucianism; comparative religion)
Diana Lobel dnlobel@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies (Classical and medieval Jewish studies; Comparative philosophy and religious thought)
Stephen R. Prothero prothero@bu.edu	Professor of Religion; C. Allyn and Elizabeth V. Russell Professor of Religion (Religion and culture in the United States)
Teena Purohit tpurohit@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Religion (South Asian religions with specialties in Muslim and Hindu devotional literature, religious identity formation, and modern Islam)

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Sociology

Joseph Harris josephh@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Sociology
Nazli Kibria nkibria@bu.edu	Professor of Sociology, and Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

Brenda G. McSweeney
bgm@bu.edu

UNITWIN Director

College of Arts and Sciences
Writing Program

Albert Dalia aadalia@bu.edu	Lecturer, CAS Writing Program
Esther T. Hu ethu@bu.edu	Lecturer, CAS Writing Program; and Fellow, BU International History Institute

College of Communication

Anne Donohue adonohue@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Journalism
Lei GUO guolei@bu.edu	Associate Professor, Division of Emerging Media Studies
Chris Chao Su suchao@bu.edu	Assistant Professor, Emerging Media Studies
H. Denis Wu hdw@bu.edu	Professor of Communication

College of Fine Arts

Marié Abe marieabe@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology
Brita Heimarck heimarck@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology
Miki Kaneda kaneda@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology
André de Quadros adq@bu.edu	Professor of Music
Mary Yang yangm@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Art, Graphic Design Program

College of General Studies

Jay Corrin jckuch@bu.edu	Professor, Social Sciences
June Grasso jgrasso@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Social Science
Susan Lee susanlee@bu.edu	Master Lecturer of Social Science

Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Kee Chan keechan@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Health Sciences
Karen Jacobs kjacobs@bu.edu	Clinical Professor of Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitative Counseling

School of Education

Stephan Ellenwood

ellenwoo@bu.edu

Associate Professor of Education

School of Management

Jay Kim jkimjr@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Operations and Technology
Yoo Taek Lee ytlee@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer of Operations and Technology Management
Aimin Yan aimin@bu.edu	Professor/Faculty Director, IMP, Organizational Behavior Department

School of Medicine

Linda L. Barnes lbarnes@bu.edu	Professor Departments of Family Medicine and Pediatrics Director, Boston Healing Landscape Project
Robert B. Saper rsaper@bu.edu	Professor, Department of Family Medicine Director, Integrative Medicine

School of Public Health

Christopher J. Gill cgill@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Global Health (research interests have focused on child survival, and include diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, pneumococcal and meningococcal disease, adherence to HIV medications, and neonatal survival; teaching, mentoring, and conducting research in the areas of HIV medication adherence in China, advocacy around child mortality due to diarrhea and pneumonia, pertussis and RSV disease surveillance in Zambia, and capacity building of Vietnamese community health workers using SMS text messaging.)
Nafisa Halim nhalim@bu.edu	Research Assistant Professor of Global Health (research interests include developing and testing interventions to reduce socio-economic, cultural, and behavioral barriers to reproductive, maternal and child health in HIV affected and/or resource-poor settings; the intersection between intimate partner violence against (IPV) and mental health (including depression and suicidality) among pregnant and postpartum women in India; IPV in Bangladesh)
Lindsey Locks lmlocks@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Global Health (global health nutritional epidemiology; She has expertise in quantitative research methods; nutrition interventions in low-resource settings; assessment of diet and nutritional status; and maternal, child and adolescent health. She has experience working in both sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia with academic institutions, UN agencies and non-governmental organizations.)
Lisa J. Messersmith ljmesser@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Global Health (gender, sexuality, HIV, and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia.)
Paul Newton paul@tropmedres.ac	Adjunct Professor of Global Health (Director of the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital in Vientiane, Laos; main research interests include the epidemiology and detection of substandard and falsified medical products and on the diversity of fevers, especially rickettsial pathogens, in rural Asia and their epidemiology and how they can be diagnosed and managed)
Lora Sabin lsabin@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Global Health (behavioral interventions and applied economics related to child health and welfare, HIV and AIDS, malaria, and other infectious diseases in Africa, Asia, and Latin America; TB-related stigma in India; knowledge and support improvements in continuing medical education among medical care providers (community-based health workers and HIV providers) in Vietnam; assessing the impact of real-time feedback to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive individuals in China)

School of Theology

Eunil David Cho eunilcho@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Spiritual Care and Counseling, School of Theology
Choi Hee An hchoi@bu.edu	Clinical Associate Professor of Practical Theology Director of the Anna Howard Shaw Center
Daryl Ireland dri@bu.edu	Research Assistant Professor of Mission; Associate Director of Center for Global Christianity & Mission
Dana Robert drobdan@bu.edu	Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission; Director of Center for Global Christianity & Mission
Peng Yin pengyin@bu.edu	Assistant Professor Ethics, School of Theology

Asia-Related Faculty

Faculty by Last Name

Faculty by Department

College of Arts and Sciences Department of Anthropology

College of Arts and Sciences Archaeology Program

College of Arts and Sciences Department of Economics

College of Arts and Sciences Department of English

College of Arts and Sciences Department of History

College of Arts and Sciences Department of History of Art and Architecture

College of Arts and Sciences The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Division of International Studies

College of Arts and Sciences Department of Linguistics

College of Arts and Sciences Department of World Languages & Literatures

College of Arts and Sciences Department of Philosophy

College of Arts and Sciences Department of Religion

College of Arts and Sciences Department of Sociology

College of Arts and Sciences Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program