Asia Pacific Faculty Directory

UCLA Faculty with research and teaching interests on Asia, listed by regional specialization:

Anthropology

P. Jeffrey Brantingham

Keywords: China, Tibet

Daniel Fessler

Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Biological Anthropology

Akhil Gupta

Keywords: South Asia

Douglas Hollan

Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Health, Cultural Anthropology

Robert Lemelson

Keywords: Asia, Public Health, Human Rights, Southeast Asia, Political Violence, Indonesia, Health

Nancy Levine

Keywords: China, Asia, India, Cultural Anthropology, Buddhist Studies, Tibet, Central Asia

Min Li

Keywords: China, Southeast Asia, Archaeology

Kyeyoung Park

Keywords: Korea, Cultural Anthropology

Monica L. Smith

Keywords: South Asia

Mariko Tamanoi

Keywords: Japan, Asia

Yunxiang Yan

Keywords: China, Cultural Anthropology

Archaeology

P. Jeffrey Brantingham

Keywords: China, Tibet

Min Li

Keywords: China, Southeast Asia, Archaeology

Lothar von Falkenhausen

Keywords: China, Asia, Archaeology, Buddhist Studies

Architecture and Urban Design

Hitoshi Abe

Keywords: Japan, Asia

Jeffrey Inaba

Keywords: Japan

Art History

Lamia Balafrej

Keywords: Central Asia

Robert L. Brown

Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Art History, Buddhist Studies

Burglind Jungmann

Keywords: Asia, Art, Art History

Hui-shu Lee

Keywords: China, Asia, Art

Saloni Mathur

Keywords: Asia, South Asia, Art History

Lothar von Falkenhausen

Keywords: China, Asia, Archaeology, Buddhist Studies

Asian American Studies Department

Victor Bascara

Keywords: Asia, Gender, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Literature, Cultural Studies

Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns

Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Cultural Studies

Keith L Camacho

Keywords: Pacific Rim

Purnima Mankekar

Keywords: India

Thu-huong Nguyen-vo

Keywords: Asia, Politics, Film, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Globalization, Literature, Economic History

Kyeyoung Park

Keywords: Korea, Cultural Anthropology

Shu-mei Shih

Keywords: China, Asia

Min Zhou

Keywords: China, Asia, Sociology, Chinese Studies, Migrations

Asian Languages & Cultures

Supa Angkurawaranon

Keywords: Asia, Art, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Language

Stephanie Balkwill

Keywords: China

Quyen Di Chuc Bui

Keywords: Asia, Art, Politics, Film, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Language, Literature, Language Proficiency

Robert Buswell

Keywords: Japan, Asia, Korea, Religion, Buddhist Studies

Liancheng Chief

Keywords: China, Chinese Studies

Jane Choi

Keywords: Art, Korea, Language

Nenita Domingo

Keywords: Asia, Art, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Language

John Duncan

Keywords: Asia, Korea, East Asia, History, Korean Studies

Nina Duthie

Keywords: China, Asia, History

George Dutton

Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, History, Cultural Studies

Michael Emmerich

Keywords: Japan, Japanese Literature

Keywords: China

Keywords: Thailand

Keywords: Japan

Keywords: Art, Korea, Language

Shoichi Iwasaki

Keywords: Japan, Asia, Art, Language, Linguistics

Stephanie Jamison

Keywords: Asia, India, South Asia, Buddhist Studies

Seonkyung Jeon

Keywords: Art, Korea, Language

Hee Ju

Keywords: Korea

Jennifer Jung-Kim

Keywords: Korea, History

Yumiko Kawanishi

Keywords: Japan

Peter Lee

Keywords: Korea, Literature, Korean Studies

Min Li

Keywords: China, Southeast Asia, Archaeology

Gyanam Mahajan

Keywords: Southeast Asia, South Asia

Thu Ba Hoai Nguyen

Keywords: Asia, Art, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Language, Linguistics

Thu-huong Nguyen-vo

Keywords: Asia, Politics, Film, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Globalization, Literature, Economic History

Yoko Nogami

Keywords: Japan

Sung-Deuk Oak

Keywords: Korea, History, Christianity

David Schaberg

Keywords: China, Art, Politics, History, Language, Literature

Gregory Schopen

Keywords: China, Japan, Asia, Religion, India, Buddhist Studies

Yan Shen

Keywords: China

Shu-mei Shih

Keywords: China, Asia

Sung-Ock Sohn

Keywords: Korea

Xiaoxin Sun

Keywords: China

Asako Hayashi Takakura

Keywords: Japan, Asia

Timothy Tangherlini

Keywords: Asia, Korea, East Asia

Hongyin Tao

Keywords: China

Juliana Wijaya

Keywords: Asia, Art, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Language

Yinghui Wu

Keywords: China

Yu-wen Yao

Keywords: China

Jaeeun Yoon

Keywords: Art, Korea, Language

Bioengineering

Ren Sun

Keywords: China

Center for East-West Medicine

Ka Kit Hui

Keywords: China

Community Health Sciences

Gilbert Gee

Keywords: Southeast Asia

Jessica Gipson

Keywords: China, Southeast Asia, Tibet

May C. Wang

Keywords: China, Public Health, Child nutrition and health

Comparative Literature

Aamir R. Mufti

Keywords: Politics, South Asia, Literature

Shu-mei Shih

Keywords: China, Asia

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

Stephen Acabado

Keywords: Education Abroad, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Cambodia

Department of Anthropology

Stephen Acabado

Keywords: Education Abroad, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Cambodia

Yunxiang Yan

Keywords: China, Cultural Anthropology

Department of Art

Russell Ferguson

Keywords: Japan, Art

Department of Asian Languages & Cultures

Stephanie Balkwill

Keywords: China

Michael Berry

Keywords: China, Asia, Film, Literature

Torquil Duthie

Keywords: Japan, Asia, Japanese Literature

Christopher P. Hanscom

Keywords: Korea, Literature

Namhee Lee

Keywords: Asia, Korea

Seiji Lippit

Keywords: Japan, Japanese Literature

Department of Ethnomusicology

Anna Morcom

Keywords: Asia, Film, India, Music, Tibet, Afghanistan

Department of Gender Studies

Purnima Mankekar

Keywords: India

Sharon Traweek

Keywords: Japan, Asia

Department of History

Andrea Goldman

Keywords: China

Nile Green

Keywords: South Asia, Central Asia

Katsuya Hirano

Keywords: Japan

Kevin Y. Kim

Keywords: Korea, East Asia, History

Vinay Lal

Keywords: India, History

William Marotti

Keywords: Japan, East Asia, History, Japanese Studies

Geoffrey Robinson

Keywords: Asia, Politics, Development, Human Rights, Southeast Asia, Political Violence, Genocide, Indonesia, History, NGO, Political Economy

Michael Salman

Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, Philippines, History

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, India, South Asia, History, Central Asia

Sharon Traweek

Keywords: Japan, Asia

Richard von Glahn

Keywords: China, Asia, Economic History

Hollian Wint

Keywords: India

R. Bin Wong

Keywords: China, Asia

Damon Woods

Keywords: Southeast Asia

Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures

Ronald Vroon

Keywords: Russia, Literature, Central Asia

Department of Sociology

Victor Agadjanian

Keywords: Central Asia

Kevan Harris

Keywords: Middle East, Central Asia

Patrick Heuveline

Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, Political Violence, Genocide, Cambodia, Children and the Family, Formal Demography

Ching Kwan Lee

Keywords: China

Ka-Yuet Liu

Keywords: China, Asia, Public Health

Wei-Hsin Yu

Keywords: Japan, Gender, East Asia, Sociology, Formal Demography

Min Zhou

Keywords: China, Asia, Sociology, Chinese Studies, Migrations

Lynne Zucker

Keywords: Japan, Sociology

Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences

An Yin

Keywords: China

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Paul Barber

Keywords: Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Environment

Economics

Deepak K. Lal

Keywords: Economics, Africa, Politics, India, Globalization, Economic Theory, Indian Ocean diaspora

Electrical Engineering

M. C. Frank Chang

Keywords: China

Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Alex L. Wang

Keywords: China, Law, Environment

Epidemiology

Roger Detels

Keywords: China, Asia, Southeast Asia, Health

Pamina Gorbach

Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, Health

Li Li

Keywords: China, Vietnam, Thailand

Zuo-feng Zhang

Keywords: China

Ethnomusicology

Münir Beken

Keywords: Central Asia

Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy

Keywords: India, South Asia, Music

Abhiman Kaushal

Keywords: South Asia, Music

Katherine In-Young Lee

Keywords: Politics, Korea, East Asia, Music

Chi Li

Keywords: China, Music

Mohsen Mohammadi

Keywords: Middle East, Near East, India, Music, History, Afghanistan, Iran

Rahul Neuman

Keywords: South Asia

Helen Rees

Keywords: China, Asia, Southeast Asia, Music

I Nyoman Wenten

Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Music

Djoko Walujo Wimboprasetyo

Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Music

Fowler Museum at UCLA

Joanna Barrkman

Keywords: Southeast Asia, Cultural Anthropology

Gender Studies

Ju Hui Judy Han

Keywords: Korea

Geography

Cindy Fan

Keywords: China, Asia

Lieba Faier

Keywords: Geography, Japan, Asia, Southeast Asia, Philippines

Helga Leitner

Keywords: Geography, Europe, Southeast Asia, Globalization, Environment, Immigration

Yue Li

Keywords: China, Environment, Amazonia

Yongwei Sheng

Keywords: China

Eric Sheppard

Keywords: Development, Indonesia, Globalization, Governance

Yongkang Xue

Keywords: Geography, China, Asia

Global Studies

Michael Thies

Keywords: Japan, Asia

Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

Robert Rhoads

Keywords: China, Argentina

Health Policy and Management

Corrina Moucheraud

Keywords: Public Health, India, Maternal health, Nepal

Ninez Ponce

Keywords: Asia, Los Angeles, Public Health, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Health Economics, Health, Migrations

Information Studies

Michelle Caswell

Keywords: Asia, Human Rights, Southeast Asia, Genocide, Cambodia

Sarah Roberts

Keywords: Southeast Asia

Ramesh Srinivasan

Keywords: India

Institute for Society and Genetics

Bharat Venkat

Keywords: India

International and Area Studies

Michael Thies

Keywords: Japan, Asia

Linguistics

Sun-Ah Jun

Keywords: Korea

Kie Zuraw

Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Linguistics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Vijay Dhir

Keywords: Asia, India, South Asia, Engineering

Music Industry

Thomas Hodgson

Keywords: India, Music, Emigration

Musicology

Thomas Hodgson

Keywords: India, Music, Emigration

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Domenico Ingenito

Keywords: Iran, Central Asia

Political Science

Tejas Parasher

Keywords: Politics, India

Michael L. Ross

Keywords: Asia, Politics, Development, Southeast Asia, Indonesia

Michael Thies

Keywords: Japan, Asia

James Tong

Keywords: China, Politics

Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Lobsang Rapgay

Keywords: Buddhist Studies

Psychology

James W. Stigler

Keywords: China, Japan, Education

Samueli School of Engineering

Jason Cong

Keywords: China

School of Medicine

Ka Kit Hui

Keywords: China

School of Public Health

Roger Detels

Keywords: China, Asia, Southeast Asia, Health

Gilbert Gee

Keywords: Southeast Asia

Jessica Gipson

Keywords: China, Southeast Asia, Tibet

Pamina Gorbach

Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, Health

Li Li

Keywords: China, Vietnam, Thailand

Corrina Moucheraud

Keywords: Public Health, India, Maternal health, Nepal

Anne Pebley

Keywords: India, Tibet, Guatemala

Ninez Ponce

Keywords: Asia, Los Angeles, Public Health, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Health Economics, Health, Migrations

Stuart Schweitzer

Keywords: China

May C. Wang

Keywords: China, Public Health, Child nutrition and health

Zuo-feng Zhang

Keywords: China

Social Welfare

Ailee Moon

Keywords: Korea

UCLA Anderson School of Management

Bhagwan Chowdhry

Keywords: South Asia

Hengchen Dai

Keywords: China

Michael Darby

Keywords: Japan, Economic Theory

Christopher Erickson

Keywords: Asia, Pacific Rim, Labor, Development, Southeast Asia, Globalization, NGO, Political Economy, Immigration

Jason Hsu

Keywords: China

Sanford Jacoby

Keywords: Economics, Japan, Asia

Edward Leamer

Keywords: Economics, China, Economic Theory, Econometrics, Mexico, Argentina

Jason Lee

Keywords: Korea

Marvin Lieberman

Keywords: Japan

Robert M. McCann

Keywords: Southeast Asia, Thailand

Jerry Nickelsburg

Keywords: Asia

Mariko Sakakibara

Keywords: Japan

Avanidhar Subrahmanyam

Keywords: South Asia

Christopher S. Tang

Keywords: China, Singapore

William Yu

Keywords: Economics, China

Shi Zhang

Keywords: China

UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library

Jade Alburo

Keywords: Asia, Religion, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore

Tomoko Bialock

Keywords: Japanese Studies

Hong Cheng

Keywords: China

Sanghun Cho

Keywords: Korea

Janine Henri

Keywords: Asia, Art, South Asia

UCLA Law

Alex Wang

Keywords: China, Law, Environment

Alex L. Wang

Keywords: China, Law, Environment

UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Ananya Roy

Keywords: South Asia

Manisha Shah

Keywords: Indonesia, India, Mexico, Ecuador

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

George Huang

Keywords: China

Gina Kim

Keywords: Korea, Film

Suk-Young Kim

Keywords: Asia, Russia, Korea, Film, Literature, Cultural Studies

Sean Metzger

Keywords: China, Film, Cultural Studies

Jasmine Trice

Keywords: Southeast Asia, Philippines

Urban Planning

Stephen Commins

Keywords: Africa, Gender, Development, India, Globalization, Human Capital Development, NGO, Poverty Reduction, Governance, Mexico

Randall Crane

Keywords: China

Kian Goh

Keywords: Southeast Asia

Paavo Monkkonen

Keywords: China, Japan, Mexico

Vinit Mukhija

Keywords: India

Rui Wang

Keywords: China, Asia

World Arts & Cultures/Dance

Anurima Banerji

Keywords: Dance, Asia, India, South Asia, Indian Ocean diaspora

David Gere

Keywords: South Asia

Peter Nabokov

Keywords: India

Janet O'Shea

Keywords: Dance, South Asia

Viji Prakash

Keywords: Dance, South Asia

Aparna Sharma

Keywords: Asia, Film, India, South Asia, Indian Ocean diaspora

Cheng-Chieh Yu

Keywords: China