Asia Center Council

Ryūichi Abé
Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
rabe@fas.harvard.edu 

William P. Alford
Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies
Director, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Chair, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law School
alford@law.harvard.edu 

Ali S. Asani
Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Department of South Asian Studies
aliasani@fas.harvard.edu 

David Atherton
Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
datherton@fas.harvard.edu 

Rifat Atun
Professor of Global Health Systems, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
ratun@hsph.harvard.edu

Jie Bai
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
jie_bai@hks.harvard.edu

Anne Becker
Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
anne_becker@hms.harvard.edu 

Homi Bhabha
Anne Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Director, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
hbhabha@fas.harvard.edu 

Jacqueline Bhabha
Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
jacqueline_bhabha@harvard.edu

Barry R. Bloom
Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
bbloom@hsph.harvard.edu  

David E. Bloom
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
dbloom@hsph.harvard.edu

Lawrence Bobo
W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard College Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Dean of the Division of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
lawrence_bobo@harvard.edu 

Peter K. Bol
Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
peter_bol@harvard.edu 

Sugata Bose
Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History & Affairs, Department of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
sbose@fas.harvard.edu 

Mary C. Brinton
Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
brinton@wjh.harvard.edu 

Paul Chang
Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
paulchang@fas.harvard.edu 

Emmerich Davies
Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
emmerich_davies_escobar@gse.harvard.edu 

Christina L. Davis
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
cldavis@harvard.edu 

Diane Davis
Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Richard Delacy
Preceptor in Hindu and Urdu, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
rdelacy@fas.harvard.edu 

Melissa Dell
Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
melissadell@fas.harvard.edu 

Nara Dillon
Senior Lecturer in Government, Department of Government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
ndillon@fas.harvard.edu 

Diana L. Eck
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Founder and Director, Pluralism Project
dianaeck@fas.harvard.edu 

Carter J. Eckert
Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Acting Director (2018-2019), Korea Institute
eckert@fas.harvard.edu 

Mark C. Elliott
Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Vice Provost for International Affairs
elliott3@fas.harvard.edu 

Wafaie Fawzi
Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Professor of Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Chair, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
mina@hsph.harvard.edu 

Mattias Fibiger
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
mfibiger@hbs.edu 

Rowan Flad
John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
rflad@fas.harvard.edu 

Jeremy S. Friedman
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
jfriedman@hbs.edu 

Jeannie Suk Gersen
John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
jsg@law.harvard.edu 

Arunabh Ghosh
Associate Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
aghosh@fas.harvard.edu 

Tyler Giannini
Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Co-Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School
giannini@law.harvard.edu 

Byron Good
Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
byron_good@hms.harvard.edu 

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
maryjo_good@hms.harvard.edu 

Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Acting Director (2018-2019), Harvard-Yenching Institute
agordon@fas.harvard.edu 

Stephen Gray
Associate Professor of Urban Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
sgray@gsd.harvard.edu 

Janet Gyatso
Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Harvard Divinity School
jgyatso@hds.harvard.edu 

Charles Hallisey
Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Literatures, Harvard Divinity School
challisey@hds.harvard.edu 

Rema N. Hanna
Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
Co-Director of the Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD), Center for International Development
Affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD)
Affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
rema_hanna@hks.harvard.edu 

Helen Hardacre
Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
hardacre@fas.harvard.edu 

Nicholas Harkness
Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
harkness@fas.harvard.edu 

David Howell
Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Chair, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Editor, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
dhowell@fas.harvard.edu 

William Hsiao
K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics, Department of Global Health and Population, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
hsiao@hsph.harvard.edu 

C.-T. James Huang
Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
ctjhuang@fas.harvard.edu 

Reshmaan Hussam
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
rhussam@hbs.edu

Kosuke Imai
Professor, Department of Government, Department of Statistics, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Affiliated Faculty, IQSS/Harvard-MIT Data Center
imai@harvard.edu 

Wesley M. Jacobsen
Professor of the Practice of the Japanese Language, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Director, Japanese Language Program
jacobsen@fas.harvard.edu 

Jay Jasanoff
Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology, Department of Linguistics, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
jasanoff@fas.harvard.edu 

Sheila Jasanoff
Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
sheila_jasanoff@harvard.edu 

Alastair Iain Johnston
Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
aijnascisac@gmail.com 

Ichiro Kawachi
John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
ikawachi@hsph.harvard.edu

Jerold S. Kayden
Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
jkayden@gsd.harvard.edu 

Thomas P. Kelly
Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
thomas_kelly@fas.harvard.edu

Salmaan Keshavjee
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
salmaan_keshavjee@hms.harvard.edu

Tarun Khanna
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
tkhanna@hbs.edu 

David Minjoon Kim
Associate Professor of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
dkim@hsdm.harvard.edu 

Jinah Kim
Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
jinahkim@fas.harvard.edu 

Ju Yon Kim
Professor of English, Department of English, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Director, Asian American Studies Working Group, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
juyonkim@fas.harvard.edu 

Sun Joo Kim
Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Director, Korea Institute
sjkim@fas.harvard.edu 

William C. Kirby
T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Department of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Chair, Harvard China Fund
wkirby@hbs.edu 

Arthur Kleinman
Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
kleinman@fas.harvard.edu 

Shigehisa Kuriyama
Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
hkuriyam@fas.harvard.edu 

Jennifer Leaning
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
jleaning@hsph.harvard.edu

Ya-Wen Lei
Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
yawenlei@fas.harvard.edu 

Richard Lesage
Librarian for South and South-East Asia
rlesage@fas.harvard.edu

Jie Li
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
jieli@fas.harvard.edu 

Wai-Yee Li
1879 Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
wyli@fas.harvard.edu 

Annette Damayanti Lienau
Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
annette_lienau@fas.harvard.edu 

Yukio Lippit
Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
lippit@fas.harvard.edu 

Jennifer Li-Chia Liu
Professor of the Practice of Language Pedagogy, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
liu02@fas.harvard.edu 

Fredrik Logevall
Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
fredrik_logevall@harvard.edu 

Felicity Lufkin
Lecturer on Folklore and Mythology, Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
lufkin@fas.harvard.edu 

Mashail Malik
Assistant Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
mashailmalik@fas.harvard.edu

Erez Manela
Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
manela@fas.harvard.edu 

Melissa McCormick
Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard College Professor
mccorm@fas.harvard.edu 

Michael B. McElroy
Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
mbm@seas.harvard.edu 

Rahul Mehrotra
Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design
mehrotra@gsd.harvard.edu

Ian Miller
Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
ian_miller@harvard.edu 

Durba Mitra
Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
dmitra@fas.harvard.edu 

Toshiko Mori
Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
tmori@gsd.harvard.edu 

Shigemi Nagai
Associate Professor of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
shigemi_nagai@hsdm.harvard.edu 

Gautam Nair
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
gnair@hks.harvard.edu

Nicole Newendorp
Lecturer on Social Studies, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Director of Studies for Juniors and Seniors, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
newendor@fas.harvard.edu 

Si Nae Park
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
sinaepark@fas.harvard.edu 

Vikram Harshad Patel
Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
vikram_patel@hms.harvard.edu

Parimal Patil
Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Chair, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
ppatil@fas.harvard.edu 

Elizabeth J. Perry
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
eperry@gov.harvard.edu 

Susan J. Pharr
Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Senior Advisor, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
susan_pharr@harvard.edu 

Todd Pollack
Country Director, The Partnership for Health Advancement in Vietnam (HAIVN), Harvard Medical School
Chief Representative, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Vietnam, Harvard Medical School
tpollack@bidmc.harvard.edu

Michael J. Puett
Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard College Professor, Harvard College
puett@fas.harvard.edu 

Shoba Ramanadhan
Assistant Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
sramanadhan@hsph.harvard.edu

J. Mark Ramseyer
Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
ramseyer@law.harvard.edu 

Malavika Reddy
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
malavika_reddy@fas.harvard.edu 

Michael Reich
Taro Takemi Research Professor of International Health Policy, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
reich@hsph.harvard.edu 

Meg Rithmire
F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School
mrithmire@hbs.edu 

Dani Rodrik
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School
dani_rodrik@hks.harvard.edu 

Jay Rosengard
Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
jay_rosengard@harvard.edu 

Peter Rowe
Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
prowe@gsd.harvard.edu 

Usha Reena Rungoo
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
usha_rungoo@fas.harvard.edu

Anthony Saich
Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
anthony_saich@harvard.edu 

Victor Seow
Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Department of the History of Science, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
seow@fas.harvard.edu 

Teren Sevea
Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School
tsevea@hds.harvard.edu 

Daniel Smith
Associate Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
danielmsmith@fas.harvard.edu 

Ajantha Subramanian
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
subram@fas.harvard.edu 

Michael Szonyi
Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
szonyi@fas.harvard.edu 

Karen L. Thornber
Acting Director, Reichauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature, Department of Comparative Literature
Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
karen_thornber@harvard.edu 

Xiaofei Tian
Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Director, Committee on Regional Studies East Asia
stian@fas.harvard.edu 

Leonard van der Kuijp
Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Chair, Committee on Inner Asian & Altaic Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
vanderk@fas.harvard.edu 

Patrick Vinck
Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
pvinck@hsph.harvard.edu

Charles Waldheim
John E. Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
waldheim@harvard.edu 

Bing Wang
Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment, Harvard Graduate School of Design
bwang@gsd.harvard.edu

David Der-Wei Wang
Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and of Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Interim Director of Graduate Studies, 2018-2019
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
dwang@fas.harvard.edu 

Eugene Yuejin Wang
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
eywang@fas.harvard.edu 

Yuhua Wang
Assistant Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
yuhuawang@fas.harvard.edu 

Jaya Wen
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
jwen@hbs.harvard.edu

Michael Witzel
Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
witzel@fas.harvard.edu 

Richard Wolf
Professor of Music, Department of Music, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
rwolf@fas.harvard.edu 

Mark Wu
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Faculty Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
mwu@law.harvard.edu 

David Y. Yang
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
davidyang@fas.harvard.edu

Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip
Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director, China Health Partnership, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
wyip@hsph.harvard.edu 

Tomiko Yoda
Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
yoda@fas.harvard.edu 

Alexander Zahlten
Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
azahlten@fas.harvard.edu 

Xiang Zhou
Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
xiang_zhou@fas.harvard.edu 

 

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