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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); Eric Heikkila (Policy, Planning, and Development); David James (Cinema-Television); Nam-Kil Kim (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Dorinne Kondo (Anthropology); Audrey Li (East Asian Languages and Cultures and Linguistics); Jeffrey B. Nugent (Economics); Joan Piggott (History); William Rideout (Education); Stanley Rosen (Political Science); James Steele (Architecture); John Strauss (Economics); Kyu-Taik Sung (Social Work); Shui Yan Tang (Policy, Planning, and Development)Associate Professors: David Bialock (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Bettine Birge (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Carolyn Cartier (Geography); Harrison Cheng (Economics); Meiling Cheng (Theatre); Joann Marie Farver (Psychology); Yasushi Hamao (Finance and Business Economics); George A. Hayden (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Hajime Hoji (East Asian Languages and Cultures and Linguistics); Velina Hasu Houston (Theatre); Kyung Moon Hwang (History); Saori Katada (International Relations); Lon Kurashige (History); Roger Moon (Economics); Jonathan Reynolds (Art History); Gary Seaman (Anthropology)
Assistant Professors: Insoo Cho (Art History); Ruth Gim Chung (Education); Youngheng Deng (Policy, Planning, and Development); Jeong Hyeok (Economics); Jinhee Kim (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Sonya Lee (Art History); Daniel Lynch (International Relations); Lori Meeks (Religion); Apichai Shipper (Political Science and 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 (Chinese Biographer); Lilian Yang (Korean Studies Librarian)
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 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.