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East Asian Area Studies

College House 101
(213) 740-2991
FAX: (213) 740-8409
Email: easc@college.usc.edu
www.usc.edu/easc

Associated Faculty

Professors: Jonathan Aronson (Communication and International Relations); Robert F. Campany (Religion, East Asian Languages and Cultures); Baizhu Chen (Finance and Business Economics); Dominic Cheung (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature); Iris Chi (Social Work, Gerontology); Eugene Cooper (Anthropology); Robert Dekle (Economics); JoAnn Marie Farver (Psychology); Eric Heikkila (Policy, Planning, and Development); Velina Hasu Houston (Theatre); David James (Cinematic Arts); Douglas Joines (Finance and Business Economics); David Kang (International Relations, Business); Nam-Kil Kim (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Dorinne Kondo (Anthropology, American Studies and Ethnicity); Audrey Li (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Linguistics); Thomas W. Lin (Accounting); Akira Mizuta Lippit (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature and Cinematic Arts); Qingyun Ma (Architecture); Roger Moon (Economics); Jeffrey B. Nugent (Economics, Business); C.W. Park (Business); Joan Piggott (History); Harry Richardson (Policy, Planning, and Development); Stanley Rosen (Political Science); Ellen Seiter (Cinematic Arts); Jean Shih (Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences); Andrew Simpson (Linguistics, East Asian Languages and Cultures); James Steele (Architecture); John Strauss (Economics); Guofu Tan (Economics); Shui Yan Tang (Policy, Planning, and Development); Yan Xiao (Engineering)

Associate Professors: David Bialock (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Bettine Birge (East Asian Languages and Cultures, History); Harrison Cheng (Economics); Meiling Cheng (Theatre, Critical Studies, English); Ruth Gim Chung (Education); Yongheng Deng (Policy, Planning, and Development); Joshua Goldstein (History); Yasushi Hamao (Finance and Business Economics); George A. Hayden (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Hajime Hoji (Linguistics, East Asian Languages and Cultures); Mingyi Hung (Accounting); Kyung Moon Hwang (History); Saori Katada (International Relations); Lon Kurashige (History, American Studies and Ethnicity); Kwanmin Lee (Communication); Daniel Lynch (International Relations); Lawrence Pryor (Communication); Gary Seaman (Anthropology); Brett Sheehan (History); Jay Wang (Communication); Shiing-Wu Wang (Accounting)

Assistant Professors: Youngmin Choe (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Robeson Taj Frazier (Communication); Yong Jin Kim (Economics); Sonya Lee (Art History, East Asian Languages and Cultures); Jing Li (Education); Anne Kirstin McKnight (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature); Lori Meeks (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Religion); Sunyoung Park (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Apichai Shipper (Political Science, International Relations); Paul Tang (Architecture)

Research, Teaching and Visiting Faculty: Richard Drobnick (Research Professor, Management and Organization; Director, CIBEAR); Nansong Huang (Associate Professor of Teaching, East

Asian Languages and Cultures); Jack Lewis (Associate Dean, IBEAR MBA and International MBA Alumni Outreach); Jehoon Lee (Research Associate Professor, Social Work; Director, Center for Asian Pacific Leadership); Andrew Lih (Visiting Professor, Journalism); Masako Tamanaha (Assistant Professor of Teaching, East Asian Languages and Cultures); Geoffrey Wiseman (Professor of the Practice, International Relations and Public Diplomacy)

Librarians: Tomoko Bialock (Japanese Studies Librarian); Joy Kim (Curator, Korean Heritage Library); Kenneth Klein (Head, East Asian Library); Sun-Yoon Lee (Korean Studies Librarian); Lillian Yang (Chinese Bibliographer)

Emeritus Professors: Gordon Berger (History); Peter A. Berton (International Relations); Roger Dingman (History); Murray Fromson (Journalism); Charlotte Furth, (History); William Rideout (Education); Otto Schnepp (Chemistry); John E. Wills (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 the consortium partner with UCLA’s Asia Institute to form 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.