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East Asian Area Studies

VonKleinsmid Center Room 263
(213) 740-2991
FAX: (213) 740-8409
Email: easc@usc.edu
www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/EASC

Director: Gordon Berger, Ph.D.

Associated Faculty

Professors: Jonathan Aronson (International Relations and Communication); Gordon M. Berger (History); Dominic C.N. Cheung (Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures); Eugene Cooper (Anthropology); Roger V. Dingman (History); Murray Fromson (Journalism); Charlotte Furth (History); David James (Cinema-Television); Nam-Kil Kim (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Audrey Li (East Asian Languages and Cultures and Linguistics); Peter Nosco (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Jeffrey B. Nugent (Economics); William Rideout (Education); Stanley Rosen (Political Science); Kyu-Taik Sung (Social Work); John E. Wills, Jr. (History)

Associate Professors: Bettine Birge (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Carolyn Cartier (Geography); Harrison Cheng (Economics); Robert Dekle (Economics); Joann Marie Farver (Psychology); Yasushi Hamao (Business Administration); George A. Hayden (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Eric Heikkila (Policy, Planning, and Development); Hajime Hoji (Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures); Dorrine Kondo (Anthropology); Joan Piggott (History); Jonathan Reynolds (Art History); Gary Seaman (Anthropology); James Steele (Architecture)

Assistant Professors: David Bialock (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Meiling Cheng (Theatre); Insoo Cho (Art History); Ruth Gim Chung (Education); Youngheng Deng (Policy, Planning, and Development); Kyung Moon Hwang (History); Hyeok Jeong (Economics); Saori Katada (International Relations); Jinhee Kim (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Sunhyuk Kim (Political Science); Winnie Kung (Social Work); Daniel Lynch (International Relations); Roger Moon (Economics); Edward Slingerland (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Lan-Ying Lillian Tseng (Art History and East Asian Languages and Cultures); Geoffrey Wiseman (International Relations)

Adjunct and Research Faculty: Hisako Asano (Adjunct Professor, Fine Arts); Baizhu Chen (Finance and Business Economics); Richard Drobnick (Vice Provost for International Affairs and Research Professor, Business Administration); Jack Lewis (Director, International Business Education and Research Program, Business Administration); Koichi Mera (Research Professor, Policy, Planning, and Development); Takahiro Miyao (Economics)

Librarians: Joy Kim (Curator, Korean Heritage Library); Kenneth Klein (Head, East Asian Library); Sun-Yoon Lee (Librarian, Korean Heritage Library); Lilian Yang (Librarian, East Asian Library)

Emeritus Professors: Peter A. Berton (International Relations); Otto Schnepp (Chemistry); George O. Totten III (Political Science)

Programs

The East Asian Studies Center provides interdisciplinary studies of China, Japan and Korea. It offers an undergraduate major in East Asian Area Studies, the Master of Arts in East Asian Area Studies and the Master of Arts/ Master of Business Administration. Its faculty are professors from departments throughout the college and several professional schools who teach and engage in research on East Asia. The center's interdisciplinary approach allows students to acquire broad exposure to many ways of learning about the region.

The East Asian Studies Center promotes and coordinates teaching, research and development of academic programs concerning East Asia, regardless of discipline or school, on a university-wide basis. Visiting scholars may also be named from among persons outside the university who wish to do research at USC and contribute to the goals of the center.

The center administers the California Private Universities and Colleges (CALPUC) Japan Study program and cooperates with Overseas Studies to advise students participating in this program. Students may study in Japan at Waseda University in Tokyo; a one-semester program is also available at Tokyo International University just outside Tokyo. Students also have opportunities to study in China, Korea and Taiwan through programs administered by the Office of Overseas Studies. Any undergraduate student of good academic standing is eligible to participate in these study-abroad programs, for full academic credit at USC. USC financial aid is applicable to these study-abroad programs.

The center also promotes and coordinates academic exchange with other institutions with which USC maintains cooperative relations in the United States and abroad. The center serves, for example, as headquarters for the USC/UCLA Joint East Asian Language and Area Studies National Resource Center. Graduate students with special interests in East Asia may take courses at UCLA through USC and may also work, where appropriate, with certain UCLA faculty. UCLA graduate students may similarly take courses at USC and work with USC faculty, for credit at UCLA in East Asian studies. The center facilitates cooperation and provides graduate fellowships to students at both institutions.