East Asian Area Studies
Associated Faculty
Professors: Jonathan Aronson (Communication and International Relations); Robert F. Campany (Religion); Baizhu Chen (Finance and Business Economics); Dominic Cheung (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Iris Chi (Social Work); Eugene Cooper (Anthropology); Robert Dekle (Economics); Eric Heikkila (Policy, Planning, and Development); Velina Hasu Houston (Theatre); David James (Cinematic Arts); Carl A. Johnson (Medicine); Douglas Joines (Finance and Buisness Economics); Nam-Kil Kim (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Dorinne Kondo (Anthropology and American Studies and Ethnicity); Yen-hui Audrey Li (East Asian Languages and Cultures and Linguistics); Akira Mizuta Lippit (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature and Cinematic Arts); Qingyun Ma (Architecture); Jeffrey B. Nugent (Economics); C.W. Park (Business); Joan Piggott (History); Stanley Rosen (Political Science); Ellen Seiter (Cinematic Arts); Jean Shih (Pharmacy); Andrew Simpson (Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures); James Steele (Architecture); John Strauss (Economics); Guofu Tan (Economics); Shui Yan Tang (Policy, Planning, and Development); Yan Xiao (Engineering); Xiaobing 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); Harrison Cheng (Economics); Meiling Cheng (Theatre); Ruth Gim Chung (Education); Yongheng Deng (Policy, Planning, and Development); Jo Ann Farver (Psychology); Joshua Goldstein (History); Yasushi Hamao (Finance and Business Economics); George A. Hayden (East Asian Languages and Cultures); Hajime Hoji (Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures); Kyung Moon Hwang (History); Saori Katada (International Relations); Lon Kurashige (History and American Studies and Ethnicity); Daniel Lynch (International Relations); Roger Moon (Economics); Lawrence Pryor (Communication); Gary Seaman (Anthropology); Brett Sheehan (History)
Assistant Professors: Yong Jin Kim (Economics); Kwanmin Lee (Communication); Sonya Lee (Art History); Anne Kirstin McKnight (East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature); Lori Meeks (Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures); Apichai Shipper (Political Science and International Relations)
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 International MBA Alumni Outreach); Jehoon Lee (Research Associate Professor, Social Work; Director, Center for Asian Pacific Leadership); Koichi Mera (Adjunct Professor, Management and Organization, Business)
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: Peter A. Berton (International Relations); Roger Dingman (History); Murray Fromson (Journalism); William Rideout (Education); 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 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.