Asian Studies
Melvin Aikens
Director and Professor Emeritus of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Anthropology, Asian Studies
Email: maikens@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5115
Office: MNH, 1680 E. 15th Ave., Rm 108
Office Hours:
Ina Asim
Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Food Studies, History, Medieval Studies
Email: inaasim@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6161
Office: 317 McKenzie Hall
William Ayres
Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Asian Studies
Email: wsayres@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5119
Office Hours:
Ray Balstad
Graduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: rbalstad@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2703
Office: 114D Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am - 4:30pm
Research Interests: French, Film, Comics, Foreign Language Acquisition, Botany
Fatima Benhabyb
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: fatimab@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2047
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am-4:30pm [Remote Fridays]
Aletta Biersack
Professor Emerita
Anthropology, Asian Studies
Email: abiersac@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5110
Office: 347 Condon Hall
Office Hours:
Alexandra Bonds
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emerita
Asian Studies, Theatre Arts
Phone: 541-346-4194
Office: 205 Villard Hall
Steven Brown
Professor of Comparative Literature
Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature
Email: stb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4016
Office: 354 PLC
Research Interests: posthumanism, horror cinema, Surrealist film and animation, sound design in film, Japanese popular culture, and critical theory.
Daniel Buck
Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Geography, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: danielb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2353
Office: 109 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Th 10:30—12:30 or by appointment
Research Interests: Geography/Asian Studies, Economic Geography, Development, Political Economy, Environment/Society, East Asia and China.
Shankha Chakraborty
Professor
Department Head
Asian Studies, Economics
Email: shankhac@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4678
Office: 537 PLC
Office Hours: W24: By appointment
Research Interests: economic growth and development, macroeconomics
Scott DeLancey
Professor Emeritus
Asian Studies, Linguistics
Email: delancey@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3901
Office: 370 Straub Hall
Olivia Denton
Faculty Support Coordinator
ASU 1 - School of Global Studies and Languages
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: odenton@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1385
Office: 107 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWTF 9:00-5:00
Stephen Durrant
Professor Emeritus, Chinese Literature
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages
Email: sdurrant@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4041
Office: 308 Friendly Hall
Brita Ellis
Academic Programs Manager
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: bellis5@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9782
Office: Friendly 114E
Thomas Fischer
Mellon GE
Asian Studies
Email: tfische5@uoregon.edu
Phone: 8606576960
Research Interests: Modern Chinese history, ideology, political philosophy
Michael Fishlen
Associate Professor Emeritus, Chinese Literature
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages
Email: fishlen@uoregon.edu
Office: 308 Friendly Hall
Scott Fitzpatrick
Professor
Curator for Indo-Pacific Archaeology, Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Anthropology, Asian Studies
Email: smfitzpa@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9380
Office: 272 Condon Hall
Office Hours: T/H 1:00 - 2:00 PM
Alisa Freedman
Professor, Japanese Literature, Cultural Studies, and Gender
Editor-in-Chief, U.S.-Japan Women's Journal
Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, East Asian Languages, English, Translation Studies
Email: alisaf@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-979-7794
Office: 404 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fridays, 10:30-12:00 on Zoom (Please email for an appointment.)
Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature, popular culture, youth culture, visual media, digital culture, urban studies, and gender
Alison Groppe
Associate Professor, Chinese Literature
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages
Email: amgroppe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7015
Office: 317 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2021: Tuesday 230-430pm
Luke Habberstad
Associate Professor, Early Chinese Literature and Religion
Program Head & Director of Asian Studies Program
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, Religious Studies
Email: lukehabb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4006
Office: 401 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2-4 pm
Jeff Hanes
Professor Emeritus
Asian Studies, History
Email: hanes@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4837
Office: 340X McKenzie Hall
Kaori Idemaru
Professor, Japanese Linguistics
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, Language Teaching Studies
Email: idemaru@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4007
Office: 302 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: on leave in Fall 22 and Winter 23
Lamia Karim
Professor & Department Head
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Comparative Literature, SAIL
Email: lamia@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5095
Office: 375 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Wed from 2-3 PM and by appointment and Zoom
Research Interests: women, work, neoliberalism, state, and Islam
Jonathan Knight
Operations Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Native American Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: jknight6@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0951
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 8-4:30 M-F
Stephen Kohl
Associate Professor Emeritus, Japanese Literature
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages
Email: kohl@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4006
Office: 308 Friendly Hall
Richard Kraus
Professor Emeritus
Asian Studies, Political Science
Email: rkraus@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4894
Office: 320B Chapman Hall
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics, Politics of Culture
Wendy Larson
Professor Emerita, Chinese Literature
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages
Email: walarson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4012
Office: 301 Friendly Hall
Gyoung-Ah Lee
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Food Studies
Email: galee@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5077
Office: 254 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Thur 2-4pm
Research Interests: Environmental archaeology, paleoethnobotany, ethnobotany, origins of agriculture, East Asian archaeology
David Li
Professor Emeritus
Collins Professor of the Humanities Emeritus
Asian Studies, English
Email: davidlli@uoregon.edu
Ken Liberman
Professor Emertius
Asian Studies, Sociology
Email: liberman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5014
Office: 722 PLC
Office Hours: Retired: No office hours.
John Lukacs
Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Asian Studies
Email: jrlukacs@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5112
Office: 355 Condon Hall
Office Hours:
Robbie Marshall
Graduate Coordinator | ASU 1
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: robertm1@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0195
Office: 114D | Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Monday - Friday | 8:30 am - 4:30 pm | Thursdays Virtual
David Meek
Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Food Studies, Global Studies
Email: dmeek@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5128
Office: Virtual
Office Hours: Not on campus Fall 22; available for virtual meetings; please contact at dmeek@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Political ecology, social movements, popular education, food sovereignty
Geraldine Moreno Black
Professor Emeritus
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Food Studies
Email: gmorenob@uoregon.edu
Office Hours:
McRae Naayers
Faculty Support Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Judaic Studies Program, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center
Email: mnaayers@uoregon.edu
Phone: 5413460171
Office: Friendly 107
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-5:00
Karen Neal
UG Coordinator
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, German & Scandinavian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: kjneal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F: 8:00am - 12:00pm
Melissa Palma
Intercultural Experience and Career Readiness Coordinator, School of Global Studies and Languages
College of Arts and Sciences ASU 1
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Yamada Language Center
Email: mpalma3@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9780
Eric Priest
Professor
Asian Studies, Law, Law-JD
Email: priest@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0414
Office: 330B Knight Law Center
Andrea Romero Dugarte
Executive Support Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Judaic Studies Program, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center
Phone: 541-346-4007
Office: Friendly Hall 114
Lisa Ross
Associate Director
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: lgillis@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4005
Office: 107 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F 8-5
Jeff Schroeder
Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Religious Studies
Email: jschroeder12@gmail.com
Phone: 541-346-4165
Office: 332 Susan Campbell
Bish Sen
Associate Professor
Asian Studies, SOJC, SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad
Email: bsen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2880
Office: 311C Allen Hall
Richard Steers
Professor Emeritus
Asian Studies
Email: rsteers@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8239
Office: 311 Lillis Hall
Xiaobo Su
Professor
Department Head
Asian Studies, Climate Studies, Geography
Email: xiaobo@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4568
Office: 175 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Tourism and urban development, international political economy, China and Southeast Asia
Mark T. Unno
Professor of Religious Studies, Religious Studies Department Head
East Asian Religions, Japanese Buddhism, Classical Japanese Buddhism, Early Chinese Thought, Comparative Ethics, Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Asian Studies, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
Email: munno@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4973
Office: 334 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Mondays 4:30pm-5:15pm on Zoom, Tuesdays 1:00pm-1:45pm on Zoom and by appointment