Kavita Daiya (Ph.D., University of Chicago)

Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Research Interests: Migration and conflict; gender and sexuality studies; India and South Asia; Asian America; literature and film; nationalism and media studies

Bruce Dickson (Ph.D., University of Michigan)

Professor of Political Science & International Affairs

Research Interests: Government and politics of China; Taiwan; East Asia

Jeffrey Ding (Ph.D., University of Oxford)

Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Research Interests: Technology and the rise and fall of great powers; political economy of innovation; China’s scientific and technological capabilities; emerging technologies and international security

Hongyuan Dong (Ph.D., Cornell University)

Associate Professor of Chinese Language & Linguistics

Research Interests: Language politics; formal semantics; Chinese linguistics; philosophy of language

Katherine (Kate) Douglass (M.P.H., The George Washington University)

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Global Health

Research Interests: International emergency medical systems; global impact of trauma and injuries; implications for emergency medical systems development

Christina Fink (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)

Professor of the Practice of International Affairs

Director, B.A. and B.S. in International Affairs

Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education, Elliott School of International Affairs

Research Interests: Myanmar/Southeast Asia; equitable development; gender and social inclusion

R. Richard Grinker (Ph.D., Harvard University)

Professor of Anthropology & International Affairs

Research Interests: Psychological and medical anthropology; disability; stigma; autism; ethnicity and nationalism; hunter-gatherers; Africa; Korea

Shoko Hamano (Ph.D., University of Florida)

Professor Emeritus of Japanese & International Affairs

Research Interests: Japanese language and linguistics; sound symbolism; phonology

James Hershberg (Ph.D., Tufts University)

Professor of History & International Affairs

Research Interests: Vietnam War history; international history of the Cold War; contemporary international relations; nuclear history

Benjamin Hopkins (Ph.D., University of Cambridge)

Professor of History & International Affairs; Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

Research Interests: South Asian history; Afghanistan; Central Asia; modern imperialism; British imperialism; world history

Jonathan Hsy (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)

Professor of English

Director of Undergraduate Studies

On Sabbatical Academic Year 2024-2025

Research Interests: Global Medieval Studies; Disability Studies; Critical Theory; Media Studies; Multilingualism and Translation Studies; Asian American Cultural Studies

Cheng Huang (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)

Associate Professor of Global Health and Environmental and Occupational Health

Research Interests: Migration policy in the US and China; global disease burden evaluation; environmental regulation; climate change and health; tobacco control

Hiromi Ishizawa (Ph.D., The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne)

Associate Professor of Sociology

Chair, Sociology Department

Research Interests: Immigrant health; linguistic incorporation of immigrants across generations; social capital and volunteerism in Japan; immigrants in Japan; mental health consequences of parental incarceration among adolescents

Indira Iyer (Ph.D., The George Washington University)

Research Professor of International Affairs

Research Interests: Economic development; fiscal policy; tax policy and administration; public expenditure management; poverty

Alexa Alice Joubin (Ph.D., Stanford University)

bell hooks Legacy Award, Martin Luther King Jr. Award, Fulbright Distinguished Chair

Professor of English, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Cultures

Co-Director, Digital Humanities Institute

Co-Director, Taiwan Education and Research Program

Research Interests: Critical race theory; feminism; East Asian film and performance cultures; Chinese, Taiwanese, Sinophone theatre and cinema; Asian-European cultural exchange; digital humanities