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

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

Director, GW Institute for Korean Studies

Co-Director, East Asia National Resource Center

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

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, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Director, Central Asia Program

Co-Director, PONARS-Eurasia

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

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

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