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Associated Faculty
Professors: Jonathan Aronson (International Relations); Gordon M. Berger (History); Dominic Cheung (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Eugene Cooper (Anthropology); Robert Dekle (Economics); Roger V. Dingman (History); Murray Fromson (Journalism); Charlotte Furth (History); Chaibong Hahm (International Relations); Eric Heikkila (Policy, Planning, and Development); David James (Cinema-Television); Carl A. Johnson (Medicine); Nam-Kil Kim (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Dorinne Kondo (Anthropology); Audrey Li (East Asian Languages and Cultures and Linguistics); Akira Lippit (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Jeffrey B. Nugent (Economics); Joan Piggott (History); William Rideout (Education); Stanley Rosen (Political Science); Ellen Seiter (Cinema-Television); Jean Shih (Pharmacy); James Steele (Architecture); John Strauss (Economics); Guofo Tan (Economics); Xiabing Tang (East Asian Languages and Cultures)Associate Professors: David Bialock (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Bettine Birge (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Carolyn Cartier (Geography); Baizhu Chen (Business); Harrison Cheng (Economics); Meiling Cheng (Theatre); Ruth Gim Chung (Education); Youngheng Deng (Policy, Planning, and Development); Jo Ann Farver (Psychology); Yasushi Hamao (Business); George A. Hayden (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Hajime Hoji (Linguistics); Velina Houston (Theatre); Kyung Moon Hwang (History); Saori Katada (International Relations); Lon Kurashige (History); Daniel Lynch (International Relations); Roger Moon (Economics); Lawrence Pryor (Communication); Jonathan Reynolds (Art History); Gary Seaman (Anthropology); Yan Xiao (Engineering)
Assistant Professors: Insoo Cho (Art History); Joshua Goldstein (History); Hyeok Jeong (Economics); Jinhee Kim (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Yong Jin Kim (Economics); Kwanmin Lee (Communication); Sonya Lee (Art History); Lori Meeks (Religion); Apichai Shipper (Political Science)
Adjunct and Research Faculty: Hisako Asano (Adjunct Professor, Fine Arts); Richard Drobnick (Research Professor, Management and Organization; Director, CIBEAR); Jack Lewis (Associate Dean, IBEAR MBA and Global EMBA); Jehoon Lee (Research Associate Professor, Social Work; Director, Center for Asian Pacific Leadership); Koichi Mera (Research Professor, Management and Organization, Business)
Librarians: Joy Kim (Curator, Korean Heritage Library); Kenneth Klein (Head, East Asian Library); Sun-Yoon Lee (Korean Studies Librarian); Lillian Yang (Chinese Bibliographer)
Emeritus Professors: Peter A. Berton (International Relations); Otto Schnepp (Chemistry); George O. Totten III (Political Science); John E. Wills, Jr. (History)
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 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.