Xiaofei Kang (Ph.D. Columbia University)

Professor of Religion

Research Interests: Chinese religions; religion and revolution; religion and gender studies

Shivraj Kanungo (Ph.D., George Washington University)

Associate Professor of Decision Sciences

Vice Dean for Graduate Programs, GW School of Business

Research Interests: Outsourcing and software development; India

Stephen B. Kaplan (Ph.D., Yale University)

Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Research Interests: International and comparative political economy, where he specializes in the political economy of global finance and development; the politics of macroeconomic policymaking; Chinese foreign investment and development finance; Latin American political economy

Albert Keidel (Ph.D., Harvard University)

Adjunct Professor of Economics

Research Interests: East Asia, Chinese economy

Dane Kennedy (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley)

Elmer Louis Kayser Professor Emeritus of History & International Affairs

Research Interests: British Empire; colonialism in Africa and India; modern Britain

Khamo (Ph.D., University of Virginia)

Librarian, China Documentation Center and Taiwan Resources Center

Research Interests: East Asian Studies Librarianship, China, and Tibet
Office Location and address: Gelman Library, Suite 703D

Shaista E. Khilji (Ph.D., Cambridge University)

Professor of Human and Organizational Learning & International Affairs

Director, Organizational Leadership and Learning

Research Interests: Asian business environment; human resource issues; culture; impact of globalization; leadership and management thought and practices

Immanuel Kim (Ph.D., University of California, Riverside)

Korea Foundation and Kim-Renaud Associate Professor of Korean Literature and Culture Studies

Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Research Interests: North Korean comedy films and filmic culture

Jisoo Kim (Ph.D., Columbia University)

Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, & East Asian Languages and Literature

On Sabbatical Academic Year 2024-2025

Research Interests: Korean/East Asian history; law; emotions; affect; gender and sexuality; crime and justice; legal culture of East Asia

Min Jung Kim (Ph.D., American University)

Visiting Assistant Professor of International Affairs

Associate Director, MA in Security Policy Studies Program

Research Interests: Asian security; political and security issues in Asian border and frontier areas; state-minority relations; territorial politics

Insung Ko (Ph.D., University of Hawai’i)

Teaching Assistant Professor in the Korean Language

Research Interests: Korean Linguistics; second language pedagogy; phonetics; language testing

Russell Korte (Ph.D., University of Minnesota)

Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Learning

Research Interests: Socialization of newcomers to organizations; Professional development of engineers

Joel Kuipers (Ph.D., Yale University)

Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs & Human Sciences

Research Interests: Cultures of Southeast Asia; Southeast Asian development; language ideologies of Indonesian Islamic piety

Young Hoon Kwak (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)

Associate Professor of Decision Sciences

Research Interests: Korea; strategic issues in project management; project control; process improvement; engineering; construction; infrastructure management

Rollie Lal (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University)

Associate Professor of International Affairs

Co-Chair, Global Affairs and Religion Network (GARNET)

Research Interests: Religion, human rights, organized crime, terrorism, China, South Asia

Marlene Laruelle (Ph.D., National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures)

Research Professor of International Affairs

Director, Illiberalism Studies Program

Research Interests: Political science; sociology; identity issues; migrations in Russia, Arctic, and Central Asia

Kristen Luck (Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University)

Librarian, Okinawa Collection and Japan Resource Center

Research Interests: Law, society, and gender in Japan; Okinawa; Japanese policy and politics; comparative public administration; law and literature  

Aman Luthra (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University)

Assistant Professor of Geography

Geography Undergraduate Advisor (Last Names A-J)

Research Interests: Urban planning; informal sector; waste management; pollination scarcity; smallholder agricultural systems; landscape ecology; common pool resources

Alex Finn Macartney (Ph.D., Georgetown University)

Assistant Professor of the Practice of International Affairs International Affairs

Research Interests: Radical politics and violence in Modern Japan and Modern Germany; global and transnational history after 1945; international reaction to the U.S. war in Vietnam

Shawn McHale (Ph.D., Cornell University)

Associate Professor of History & International Affairs

On Sabbatical Academic Year 2024-2025

Research Interests: Southeast Asian history; colonialism and decolonization; Vietnam

Barbara Miller (Ph.D., Syracuse University)

Professor of Anthropology & International Affairs

Director, Global Gender Program

Director, Culture in Global Affairs Research and Policy Program

Research Interests: Culture and globalization; anthropology and policy; social inequality; food and culture; sociocultural anthropology; Pakistan; South Asia

Mike Mochizuki (Ph.D., Harvard University)

Associate Professor of Political Science & International Affairs

Japan-U.S. Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur

Co-Director, Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia Pacific Program

Research Interests: Japanese foreign policy and domestic politics; U.S.-Japan relations; international relations in East Asia

Brendan Morley (Ph.D., University of Califonia, Berkeley)

Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literaure

Research Interests: Sinitic poetry and prose (kanshibun), classical Japanese poetics, Japanese intellectual history