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



Kecia Ali	Professor of Religion (Islamic law; women and gender; ethics; and biography)
Betty Anderson	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	Associate Professor Emeritus of Asian and Chinese Art, Department of the History of Art and Architecture
Thomas Barfield	Professor of Anthropology (Social anthropology, political economy, anthropology and history, pastoral nomadism. Near East and Central Asia. Afghanistan)
Linda L. Barnes	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	Associate 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
Anne Donohue adonohue@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Journalism
Daigengna Duoer dduoer@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions
David Eckel mdeckel@bu.edu	Professor of Religion (history of Buddhist philosophy in India and Tibet, the relationship between Buddhism and other Indian religions)
Stephan Ellenwood ellenwoo@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Education
Anna Zielinska-Elliott aelliott@bu.edu	Master Lecturer in Japanese
Yating Fan ytfan@bu.edu	Lecturer in Chinese
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 & Comparative Literature
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 emerita 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 & International Relations (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
Liling Huang lilingh@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Chinese
Weijia Huang huangwj@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Chinese
April Hughes adhughes@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Religion
Daryl Ireland dri@bu.edu	Research Assistant Professor of Mission; Associate Director of Center for Global Christianity & Mission
Satoru Ishikawa satorui@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Japanese
Karen Jacobs kjacobs@bu.edu	Program Director, On-line Post-professional Doctorate in Occupational Therapy, and Clinical Professor
Arianna Q. James aqj@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of English African American and Black Diaspora Studies (Asian American Literature)
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	Associate Professor of Global Development Policy
Nazli Kibria nkibria@bu.edu	Professor of Sociology
Jay Kim jkimjr@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Operations and Technology, Questrom School of Business
Jungsoo Kim kimjs@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Korean
Cheryl Knott knott@bu.edu	Professor of Anthropology
Frank Korom korom@bu.edu	Professor emeritus of Religion & Anthropology
Sanjay Krishnan skrishn2@bu.edu	Professor of English
Heeju Lee heejulee@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Korean
Jinmyung Lee jmlee22@bu.edu	Lecturer in Korean
Meyongok Lee leelee@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Japanese
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
Petrus Liu petrusl@bu.edu	Professor, Chinese and Comparative Literature & Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Diana Lobel dnlobel@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies
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
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
Mohammad 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
Robert Neville rneville@bu.edu	Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology Emeritus
Paul Newton paul@tropmedres.ac	Adjunct Professor of Global Health
Etsuko Okita Snyder eokita@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer of Japanese
Shilpa Parnami sparnami@bu.edu	Senior Lecturer in Hindi
Simon Payaslian payas@bu.edu	Charles K. and Elizabeth M. Kenosian Professor of History
Apekshya Prasai aprasai@bu.edu	Assistant Professor of Political Science
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)
Jyoti Puri puri@bu.edu	Professor of Sociology
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
Lora Sabin lsabin@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Global Health, School of Public Health
Robert B. Saper Robert.saper@bmc.org	Professor, Department of Family Medicine; Director, Integrative Medicine
Sunil Sharma sharma@bu.edu	Professor of Persianate & Comparative Literature
Merav Shohet shohetm@bu.edu	Director of Undergraduate Studies and 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 Professor of History (Modern South Asia, environmental history, agricultural history, history of medicine and the body, history of economic life, modern South Asia, environmental history, agricultural history, history of medicine and the body, history of economic life)
Nancy Smith-Hefner smhefner@bu.edu	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
Sassan Tabatabai stabat67@bu.edu	Master Lecturer in World Languages & Literatures and Core Curriculum
Yumiko Tashiro ytashiro@bu.edu	Lecturer in Japanese
Alice Tseng aytseng@bu.edu	Professor of Japanese Art and Architecture
Keith Vincent kvincent@bu.edu	Associate Professor of Japanese & Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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 emerita 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
Dennis Wuerthner	Assistant Professor of East Asian Literatures
Emi Yamanaka	Master Lecturer in Japanese
Aimin Yan	Professor/Faculty Director, IMP, Organizational Behavior Department
Mary Yang	Assistant Professor of Art, Graphic Design Program
Yoon Sun Yang	Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature
Zhuming Yao	Assistant Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature
Min Ye	Professor of International Relations, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies; Director of Undergraduate Studies
Catherine Yeh	Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature
Peng Yin	Assistant Professor of Ethics, School of Theology

Faculty by Department

College of Arts and Sciences
African American & Black Diaspora Studies

Arianna Q. James
aqj@bu.edu

Assistant Professor of English African American and Black Diaspora Studies (Asian American Literature)

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Anthropology

Thomas Barfield	Professor of Anthropology
Shahla Haeri	Professor emerita of Anthropology
Robert Hefner	Professor of Anthropology and International Relations
Cheryl Knott	Professor of Anthropology
Frank Korom	Professor emeritus of Religion & Anthropology
Merav Shohet	Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Anthropology
Nancy Smith-Hefner	Department Chair, and Professor of Anthropology
Robert Weller	Professor of Anthropology
Merry White	Professor Emerita of Anthropology

College of Arts and Sciences
Archaeology Program

Mohammad Rafique Mughal	Professor Emeritus of Archaeology
Robert Murowchick	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

Director of the Institute for Economic Development;
Professor of Economics

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English

Arianna Q. James	Assistant Professor of English African American and Black Diaspora Studies (Asian American Literature)
Ha Jin (Xuefei Jin)	Professor of English and in the Creative Writing Program
Sanjay Krishnan	Professor of English
Carrie J. Preston	Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Takeo Rivera	Associate Professor of English

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of History

Betty Anderson	Professor of History
Houchang Chehabi	Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History
Arianne Chernock	Associate Professor of History
Jilene Chua	Assistant Professor of History
Rui Hua	Assistant Professor of History
Eugenio Menegon	Associate Professor of History
Simon Payaslian	Charles K. and Elizabeth M. Kenosian Professor of History
Ronald Richardson	Associate Professor of History
Benjamin Siegel	Associate Professor of History

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of History of Art and Architecture

Qianshen Bai	Associate Professor Emeritus of Asian and Chinese Art
Anne Anning Feng	Assistant Professor in Asian Art History
Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis	Professor Emerita, Japanese Art History
Jan Haenraets	Professor of Practice, Preservation Studies Program

Alice Tseng	Professor of Japanese Art and Architecture

College of Arts and Sciences

Linguistics

Charles Chang

Associate Professor of Linguistics

The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

Thomas Berger	Professor of International Relations
Rachel Brule	Associate Professor of Global Development Policy
Joseph Fewsmith	Professor of International Relations and Political Science
Kevin Gallagher	Professor of Global Development Policy; Director, Global Development Policy Center
William Grimes	Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professor of International Relations and Political Science
Jorge Heine	Research Professor
Mahesh Karra	Associate Professor of Global Development Policy
Jeffrey Karam	Lecturer in International Relations and Middle East Politics
Noora Lori	Assistant Professor of International Relations
Jeremy Menchik	Associate Professor of International Relations; Director of CURA: The Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs
Manjari Chatterjee Miller	Associate Professor of International Relations

Adil Najam	Professor of International Relations and Earth & Environment
John Woodward, Jr.	Professor of the Practice of International Relations
Min Ye	Professor of International Relations

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of World Languages & Literatures

Shutan Dong	Lecturer in Chinese
Anna Zielinska-Elliott	Master Lecturer in Japanese
Yating Fan	Lecturer in Chinese
Sarah Frederick	Associate Professor of Japanese & Comparative Literature
Liling Huang	Senior Lecturer in Chinese
Weijia Huang	Senior Lecturer in Chinese
Satoru Ishikawa	Senior Lecturer in Japanese
Jungsoo Kim	Senior Lecturer in Korean
Heeju Lee	Senior Lecturer in Korean
Jinmyung Lee	Lecturer in Korean
Meyongok Lee	Senior Lecturer in Japanese
Petrus Liu	Professor, Chinese & Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Roberta Micallef	Professor of the Practice in Turkish
Hiromi Miyagi-Lusthaus	Senior Lecturer in Japanese

Amber Navarre	Master Lecturer in Chinese
Etsuko Okita Snyder	Senior Lecturer in Japanese
Shilpa Parnami	Senior Lecturer in Hindi
Jaemin Roh	Master Lecturer in Korean
Sunil Sharma	Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature
Hongyun Sun	Senior Lecturer in Chinese
Sassan Tabatabai	Master Lecturer in World Languages & Literatures and Core Curriculum
Yumiko Tashiro	Lecturer in Japanese
Keith Vincent	Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dennis Wuerthner	Assistant Professor of East Asian Literatures
Emi Yamanaka	Master Lecturer in Japanese
Yoon Sun Yang	Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature
Zhuming Yao	Assistant Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature
Catherine Yeh	Professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Political Science


Apekshya Prasai	Assistant Professor of Political Science

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Philosophy

Tianyu Cao	Professor of Philosophy
Robert Neville	Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology Emeritus

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Religion

Kecia Ali	Professor of Religion
Daigengna Duoer	Assistant Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions
David Eckel	Professor Emeritus of Religion
Laura Harrington	Senior Lecturer of Religion, CORE and Cinema & Media Studies
April Hughes	Associate Professor of Religion
Frank Korom	Professor Emeritus of Religion and Anthropology
Yair Lior	Lecturer on Religion
Diana Lobel	Associate Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies
Stephen R. Prothero	Professor of Religion
Teena Purohit	Associate Professor of Religion

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Sociology

Joseph Harris	Associate Professor of Sociology
Nazli Kibria	Professor of Sociology
Jyoti Puri	Professor of Sociology

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

Brenda G. McSweeney

UNITWIN Director

College of Arts and Sciences
Writing Program

Albert Dalia	Lecturer in the Writing Program
Esther T. Hu	Lecturer, CAS Writing Program; and Fellow, BU International History Institute
Ha Jin	Professor of English and in the Creative Writing Program

College of Communication

Anne Donohue	Associate Professor of Journalism
Lei Guo	Associate Professor, Division of Emerging Media Studies
Chris Chao Su	Assistant Professor, Emerging Media Studies
H. Denis Wu	Professor of Communication

College of Fine Arts


Brita Heimarck	Associate Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology
Miki Kaneda	Assistant Professor of Music, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology
André de Quadros	Professor of Music
Mary Yang	Assistant Professor of Art, Graphic Design Program

College of General Studies

Jay Corrin	Professor, Social Sciences
June Grasso	Associate Professor of Social Science
Susan Lee	Master Lecturer of Social Science

Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Kee Chan	Assistant Professor of Health Sciences
Karen Jacobs	Clinical Professor of Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitative Counseling

School of Education

Stephan Ellenwood

Associate Professor of Education

School of Management

Jay Kim	Associate Professor of Operations and Technology
Yoo Taek Lee	Senior Lecturer of Operations and Technology Management
Aimin Yan	Professor/Faculty Director, IMP, Organizational Behavior Department

School of Medicine

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

School of Public Health

Christopher J. Gill	Associate Professor of Global Health
Nafisa Halim	Research Assistant Professor of Global Health
Lindsey Locks	Assistant Professor of Global Health
Lisa J. Messersmith	Associate Professor of Global Health
Paul Newton	Adjunct Professor of Global Health
Lora Sabin	Associate Professor of Global Health

School of Theology

Eunil David Cho	Assistant Professor of Spiritual Care and Counseling
Choi Hee An	Clinical Associate Professor of Practical Theology Director of the Anna Howard Shaw Center
Daryl Ireland	Research Assistant Professor of Mission; Associate Director of Center for Global Christianity & Mission
Dana Robert	Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission; Director of Center for Global Christianity & Mission
Peng Yin	Assistant Professor Ethics

Asia-Related Faculty

Faculty by Last Name

Faculty by Department

College of Arts and Sciences African American & Black Diaspora Studies

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

Linguistics

The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

College of Arts and Sciences Department of World Languages & Literatures

College of Arts and Sciences Department of Political Science

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

College of Communication

College of Fine Arts

College of General Studies

Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

School of Education

School of Management

School of Medicine

School of Public Health

School of Theology

College of Arts and Sciences
African American & Black Diaspora Studies

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 World Languages & Literatures

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Political Science

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