Core Faculty
Yukie Aida
Senior Lecturer
aiday@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6049 |
WCH 5.110
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Japanese language pedagogy / students beliefs about their own language performances
Joel Brereton
Professor
jpb@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6024 |
WCH 4.122
Education: PhD, Yale University
Interests: Sanskrit; Religious studies, Asian religions, Vedic studies
Kirsten Cather
Associate Professor
kcather@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0031 |
WCH 4.112
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: modern Japanese literature and film; censorship, suicide, and death in modern Japan; adaptations; translation theory and practice
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Chih-Wei (Elsa) Chang
Lecturer
elsa.chang@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6041 |
WCH 5.116
Education: MA, Univeristy of Texas at Austin
Interests: Chinese language
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Sung-Sheng (Yvonne) Chang
Professor
yvonne@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6036 |
WCH 4.124
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Chinese film and literature
Chikako H Cooke
Lecturer
hirayama_cooke@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6035 |
WCH 5.104A
Interests: pedagogy
Donald R. Davis, Jr.
Professor & Chair, Department of Asian Studies
drdj@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5811 |
WCH 4.134A
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Sanskrit; Dharmaśāstra; Law and Religion; Medieval India; Malayalam
Oliver Freiberger
Associate Professor
of@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8239 |
WCH 4.104A
Education: PhD, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Interests: Indian Buddhism | asceticism | comparison in the study of religion | religious boundary-making
Shahnaz Hassan
Senior Lecturer
snzhasan@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0304 |
WCH Hindi Urdu Flagship 4.104F
Education: BA, University of the Punjab
Interests: Urdu Language and Literature
Junko Hatanaka
Lecturer
jhatanaka@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6042 |
WCH 5.124
Education: MA in Japanese, MS in Rhetoric and Technical Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michigan Technological University
Heather Hindman
Associate Professor
h.hindman@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-1667 |
WCH 4.104C
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Critical development, entrepreneurialism, expatriate communities, social theory, global labor and gender
Camilla H Hsieh
Senior Lecturer
camilla@utexas.edu |
512-475-6046 |
WCH 5.132
Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas
Interests: Chinese language pedagogy
S. Akbar Hyder
Associate Professor
akbarhyder@utexas.edu |
512-471-1302 |
WCH 4.130
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Interests: Islam in South Asia, Urdu language and literature, Aesthetics in South Asian and the Middle East.
Akemi Katayama
Lecturer
akataya@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8497 |
WCH 5.105
Education: MA, 2012, MA, 1996, The University of Alberta, Portland State University
Interests: Second language acquisition and language pedagogy
Eun Joo Kim
Lecturer
kim.eunjoo@austin.utexas.edu |
WCH 5.104B
Education: BA, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Mina Kim
Lecturer
mina.kim@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6045 |
WCH 5.130
Education: M.A, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Interests: Korean language and lingustics, Korean language pedagogy
Chiu-Mi Lai
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
cmlai@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5811 (DEPT.) |
WCH 4.114
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Janice Leoshko
Associate Professor
jleoshko@austin.utexas.edu |
232-2581 |
DFA 2.130
Education: PhD, Ohio State University
Interests: South and Southeast Asian art history and Buddhist art
Yi-Chun Lin
Lecturer
yichunlin@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6042 |
WCH 5.124
Education: M.A., Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, National Taiwan Normal University.
Claire Maes
Lecturer
claire.maes@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7965 |
WCH 5.104C
Education: PhD, Ghent University, Belgium
Interests: Indian Buddhism; Jainism; Monasticism
Darsana Manayathu Sasi
Lecturer
darsana@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6031 |
WCH 4.104E
Education: PhD, University of Kerala
Alice McCoy-Bae
Lecturer
mccoy-bae@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1843 |
WCH 5.136
Education: M.S., The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Korean Language, Korean language pedagogy, film representations of a social reality in Korea, women and gender issues in Korea, Korean food culture, and social media and its impact on learning Korean
Youjeong Oh
Assistant Professor
youjeong@utexas.edu |
512-475-6032 |
WCH 5.114
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Interests: Urban processes in Korea and East Asia; Development and Social Movement; Korean popular culture; Gender and space
Robert M Oppenheim
Professor
rmo@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7279 |
WCH 5.134
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Korean anthropology and history; science/tech/society; heritage; objects/materiality; history of anthropology
Dalpat Rajpurohit
Assistant Professor
drajpurohit@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1219 |
WCH 4.104B
Education: PhD, Presidency University
Interests: Hindi-Urdu; Literary cultures of early modern north India; Modern Chāyāvādī [Romantic] Hindi poetry (1918-1936); Nayī Kahānī [New Story] era and post-independence Hindi novel; Dalit autobiographies
Martha Selby
(on leave)
Professor
mas@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6040 |
WCH 4.104E
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Interests: Representations of women, birth, and disease in classical Indian medicine. Sanskrit poetry and poetics, Prakrit and Old Tamil poetry, modern Tamil fiction, and Sanskrit medical literature.
Gautami Shah
Senior Lecturer
gshah@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6033 |
WCH 4.104GA
Education: MS, Purdue University
Interests: Issues of inclusivity, translanguaging and language pedagogy; Contemporary South Asian literature and popular culture (specifically Bollywood) with a focus on communal conflicts, gender issues, caste, religion and immigrant experiences; Program and curriculum development; and Innovative use of technology in language teaching
Ahmed Shamim
Lecturer
ahmedshamim@utexas.edu |
512-471-0304 |
4.104G
Education: MA, City University of New York
Naoko Suito
Senior Lecturer
n.suito@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6029 |
WCH 4.110
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas
Interests: Japanese language; Curriculum and Instruction, Instructional Technology
Saori Suto
Lecturer
saori.suto@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6042 |
WCH 5.124
Education: MA, California State University, Long Beach
Cynthia Talbot
Professor
ctalbot@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475-7229 |
GAR 3.406
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Interests: Medieval and early modern history of South Asia
Midori Tanaka
Lecturer
midori@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7104 |
WCH 5.138
Education: MA, University of Oregon
Interests: Japanese language and linguistics; pedagogy
Wen-Hua Teng
Senior Lecturer
whteng@utexas.edu |
512-475-6047 |
WCH 5.128
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Pedagogical grammar of Chinese; curriculum design; technology-enhanced CFL pedagogy
Luke Waring
Assistant Professor
luke.waring@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6024 |
WCH 4.122
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Interests: Early Chinese literature and cultural history (1250 BCE-220 CE).
Shohko Yanagisawa
Lecturer
syanagisawa@utexas.edu |
512-475-6045 |
WCH 5.130
Education: M.A., Purdue University
Affiliate Faculty
Kamran Asdar Ali
Professor
asdar@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7531, 471-3550 |
SAC 5.126
Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Indrani Chatterjee
Professor
ichatterjee@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7252 |
GAR 3.412
Education: PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Wenhong Chen
Associate Professor of Media Studies and Sociology Co-director, Media and Entertainment Industries Program
wenhong.chen@austin.utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Toronto
Lalitha Gopalan
Associate Professor
lalitha.gopalan@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4071 |
CMA 6.118
Education: PhD, University of Rochester
Sumit Guha
Professor
sguha@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7236 |
GAR 2.140
Education: PhD, University of Cambridge
Madeline Y. Hsu
Professor; Department of History
myhsu@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-9303 |
GAR 3.404
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Asian American studies, migration, Cold War, transnationalism, and ethnic studies
Grace MyHyun Kim
Assistant Professor
grace@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-4861 |
SZB 334B
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Shanti Kumar
Associate Professor
shantikumar@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-3498 |
CMA 5.124
Education: PhD, Indiana University-Bloomington
Huaiyin Li
Professor, Director of Center for East Asian Studies
hli@utexas.edu |
512-475-7910 |
GAR 3.202
Education: PhD, UCLA, Department of History
Interests: Modern Chinese history; Contemporary Chinese economy, society, and politics; imperial China; gender and family; agrarian studies; Chinese culture and religions; and comparative studies of development and globalization.
Patricia Maclachlan
Professor of Government and Asian Studies; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies
pmaclachlan@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1724 |
BAT 3.150
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Interests: Interest group behavior in Japan; Japanese agricultural politics; Japanese postal politics and reform; consumerism in advanced industrial democracies; comparative political institutions.
Madhavi Mallapragada
Associate Professor
madhavim@austin.utexas.edu |
512 471 9239 |
CMA 5.148
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stephen Phillips
Professor
stephen_phillips@utexas.edu |
512-471-5080 |
WAG 301
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Interests: Indian Philosophy; philosophy of religion; theory of value
Joseph Schaub
(on leave)
Lecturer
joseph.schaub@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6048 |
WCH 5.103
Education: Ph.D, University of Maryland, College Park
Emeritus or Retired
Robert Hardgrave, Jr.
Temple Professor Emeritus of the Humanities in Government and Asian Studies
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Edeltraud Harzer
Senior Lecturer (retired)
Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
Interests: Sanskrit, Indian philosophy and literature, Material culture
Robert King
Professor Emeritus
rking@austin.utexas.edu |
512-923-3502 |
CAL 507
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin
Interests: Sociolinguistics of India
Richard W Lariviere
Professor Emeritus
rlariviere@fieldmuseum.org |
471-4141 |
GEB 3.200
Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Sanskrit
Gail Minault
Professor Emerita
gminault@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7214 |
GAR 3.118
Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: History of India and Pakistan; women's history, history of Islamic art
Patrick Olivelle
Professor Emeritus
jpo@uts.cc.utexas.edu |
512-475-6032 |
WCH 5.120A
Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Sanskrit; Ancient Indian religious history
Rupert Snell
Professor Emeritus
Education: PhD, University of London
Interests: Poetics and aesthetics in pre-modern Hindi; poetry in Braj Bhasha and Awadhi dialects.
Herman Van Olphen
Professor Emeritus
Interests: Hindi Language and linguistics; language and nationalism
